Adolescents
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Adolescent sleep, distress, and technology use: weekday versus weekend
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – Self-reported measures of sleep timing, chronotype (early, neither early nor late, late), technology medium (social media/texting, TV/streaming, and gaming), and psychological distress (DASS-21) were collected from 462 students attending one Australian high school. Alexander Reardon et al.
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Schools engaged in doom-monitoring students’ online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses
Paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “Growing public concern about the safety and security of schools has led many schools and school districts within the United States to hire private companies to monitor students’ online interactions and the content they create, including on social media”. Kristjan Kikerpill and Andra Siibak
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The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “The salience of economic inequalities in proximal social environments (e.g. among friends) in early adolescence could further amplify the negative effects of economic disadvantage on mental health and behavioural difficulties during this period”. Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer et al.
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Annual Research Review: Emergence of problem gambling from childhood to emerging adulthood: a systematic review
Paper from the JCPP – “The risk for problematic gambling and associated high-risk behaviors is elevated during adolescence and emerging adulthood”. Jérémie Richard (pic) and Serena M. King.
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Development of morning–eveningness in adolescence: implications for brain development and psychopathology
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Here, we investigated the longitudinal relationships among the trajectory of eveningness preference, internalizing and externalizing psychopathology and white matter development, across adolescence”. Rebecca Cooper et al.
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Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “There is growing evidence for the role of circadian factors in adolescents’ sleep and academic adjustment, with greater evening preference being linked to poorer academic functioning. However, studies have yet to evaluate this association prospectively in adolescence, nor have studies examined daytime sleepiness as a putative mechanism linking evening preference to poor academic functioning”. Joseph W. Fredrick (pic) et al.
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Internet-delivered therapist-assisted cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder (OSCA): a randomised controlled trial addressing preliminary efficacy and mechanisms of action
Open Access from the JCPP – “Forty-three youth (14–18 years) with SAD recruited through schools were randomly allocated to therapist-assisted Internet-delivered CT-SAD or waitlist for 14 week”. Eleanor Leigh (pic) and David M. Clark
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Russian adolescent mental health in 2002, 2015 and during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021
Paper from the CAMH journal – Cross-sectional school-based surveys of 12- to 18-year-olds were carried out in a Siberian city using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, data on tobacco, alcohol and drug use and socio-demographic information. We examined the effect of cohort, gender, family composition and parental occupation on mental health and substance use. Helena R. Slobodskaya et al.
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Differences in body mass index trajectories of adolescent psychiatric inpatients by sex, age, diagnosis and medication: an exploratory longitudinal, mixed effects analysis
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – “This study aimed to analyse sex differences in longitudinal body mass index (BMI) change for adolescents receiving treatment in a secure psychiatric hospital”. Justine Anthony (pic) et al.
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On the importance of parenting in externalizing disorders: an evaluation of indirect genetic effects in families
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We studied the joint contributions of direct genetic effects of children and the indirect genetic effects of parents through the environment on externalizing problems”. Espen M. Eilertsen et al.
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