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Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two- and six-year-olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This study aimed to characterize the association of distinct RRB subtypes at two and six years of age, with internalising and externalising difficulties in a community sample of children.’ Sarah J. Carrington (pic) et al.
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Where you live matters: visualizing environmental effects on reading attainment
Paper from the JCPP – ‘This study investigates the extent to which SES and geographical location interact to moderate the genetic and environmental components of reading attainment.’ Jeffrey A. Shero (pic) et al.
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Narrative Matters: Wasting away and fed up – dietary battles in history
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Histories of anorexia nervosa (AN), mostly written since the 1970s, have a standard narrative. The story is of largely Eurocentric self-starvation in adolescent girls in response to sociocultural pressures on women who are trapped in disempowering patriarchal systems.’ Jane Whittaker
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Diagnostic certainty during in-person and telehealth autism evaluations
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Differences emerged in the frequency of diagnoses evaluated and made and diagnostic certainty for evaluations conducted via telehealth during the pandemic compared to in person before the pandemic, which likely impacted patients and reflect real-word challenges.’ Natasha N. Ludwig (pic) et al.
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Short Research Article: Opening a new CAMHS day hospital – does it affect inpatient admissions and does it help at all?
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘This study’s primary aims were to examine the impact of a new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) day hospital on referrals and admissions to the associated CAMHS in-patient unit.’ Sannie John and Dermot Cohen
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Practitioner Review: Effectiveness and mechanisms of change in participatory arts-based programmes for promoting youth mental health and well-being – a systematic review
Open Access JCPP paper – ‘There is good evidence that there are therapeutic processes in PAB programmes. There is a need for more transdisciplinary work to increase understanding of context–mechanism–outcome pathways, including the role played by different art stimuli and practices.’ Emma Williams (pic) et al.
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START NOW: a cognitive behavioral skills training for adolescent girls with conduct or oppositional defiant disorder – a randomized clinical trial
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Here, we aimed at confirming the efficacy of START NOW, a cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior therapy-oriented skills training program aiming to enhance emotion regulation skills, interpersonal and psychosocial adjustment, adapted for female adolescents with CD or ODD.’ Christina Stadler (pic) et al.
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ACAMH Awards 2023 Nominees Shortlist
See who made the nominees shortlist for the 2023 ACAMH Awards.
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Subtyping at-risk adolescents for predicting response toward insomnia prevention program
Open Access JCPP paper – ‘Adolescents at risk for insomnia can be classified into different subgroups according to their psychological profiles, which were associated with differential responses to the insomnia prevention program.’ Si-Jing Chen et al.
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Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster-randomized controlled trial
Paper from the JCPP – ‘We compared the independent and combined effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting components into a nutrition intervention on early child development (ECD) and parenting outcomes.’ Joshua Jeong (pic) et al.
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