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Research Review: A systematic review of dramatherapy interventions used to alleviate emotional distress and support the well-being of children and young people aged 8–18 years old
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘As there is a growing evidence base, this systematic review sought to identify, describe and evaluate dramatherapy with children and adolescents who were experiencing emotional distress (anxiety, depression and trauma) in order to inform future research in this area’. Eleanor Keiller (pic) et al.
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Research Review: Efficacy of stimulants for preschool attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to review currently available evidence to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of stimulants for preschool children with ADHD.’ Luisa S. Sugaya, Luis C. Farhat et al.
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Research Review: Executive function profiles of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are both associated with differences in Executive Functioning (EF). There is lack of clarity around the specificity or overlap of EF differences in early childhood when both disorders are first emerging. This systematic review aims to delineate preschool EF profiles by examining studies comparing the EF profiles of children with and without ASD or ADHD. Marina Christoforou et al.
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Research Review: Epigenetics applied to child and adolescent mental health: Progress, challenges and opportunities
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Epigenetic processes are fast emerging as a promising molecular system in the search for both biomarkers and mechanisms underlying human health and disease risk, including psychopathology”. Charlotte A. M. Cecil (pic) et al.
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Research Review: The effect of perinatal interventions on parent anxiety, infant socio-emotional development and parent-infant relationship outcomes: A systematic review
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “This review primarily aimed to examine the efficacy of perinatal interventions on parent anxiety, infant socio-emotional development/temperament, and parent-infant relationship outcomes. Secondarily, the review sought to understand how interventions focused principally on one member of the dyad affected the outcomes of the other, and which intervention components were common to successful interventions”. Celia G. Smith et al.
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Research Review: Seven reasons why binary diagnostic categories should be replaced with empirically sounder and less stigmatizing dimensions
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning”. Benjamin B. Lahey (pic) et al.
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Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of CAMHS
In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure to discuss her recent CAMH journal paper ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’.
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Reviewer Information Pack – Peer Review Week 2022
Authors, editors, publishers, and readers alike recognize the need for quality peer review. For this year’s Peer Review Week (19-23 September), we have created a Reviewer Information Pack for more information.
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Practitioner Review: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder – the importance of depression
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, show high rates of mental health problems, of which depression is one of the most common. Given that depression in ASD and ADHD is linked with a range of poor outcomes, knowledge of how clinicians should assess, identify and treat depression in the context of these neurodevelopmental disorders is much needed”. Anita Thapar (pic) et al.
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Climate change-related worry, engagement, and mental health
In this podcast, Dr. Emma Sciberras and Dr. Julian Fernando discuss their co-authored paper ‘Climate change-related worry among Australian adolescents: an eight-year longitudinal study’, published in the CAMH 2022 Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’.
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