Bullying
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What are the mental health impacts of school anxiety and emotional based school avoidance (EBSA)?
EBSA refers to severe difficulty attending school due to emotional factors. It’s estimated to affect 1-5% of school-age children and is more prevalent in secondary schools. This blog explores the mental health consequences of these issues.
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Engaging Young People in Conversations Exploring the Impact of Their Online Use on Mental Health
Young people have better access to the internet than ever before, with those under 18 accounting for one in three internet users globally. Recently, The Royal College of the Psychiatrists in the UK advised that social media and online use should be considered in assessing risk of all young people they meet. However, it is currently unclear whether this advice has been implemented in practice.
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Development of symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder from preschool to adolescence: the role of bullying victimization and emotion regulation
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Although bullying victimization and poor emotion regulation are assumed to be risk factors for the development of ODD symptoms, little research has been conducted to test this possibility.’ Habib Niyaraq Nobakht (pic) et al.
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Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration
Paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “Cyberbullying is becoming a global threat with the ease of access to the internet”. Eyüp Sabır Erbiçer 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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Review: Digital experiences and their impact on the lives of adolescents with pre-existing anxiety, depression, eating and nonsuicidal self-injury conditions – a systematic review
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “We review publications relating to anxiety, depression, eating disorders and nonsuicidal self-injury to identify common and condition-specific digital experiences and how these may be implicated in the origins and maintenance of these mental health conditions”. Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne (pic) et al.
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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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Anti-Bullying Week 2022: A Priority for All
This Anti-Bullying Week (14 – 18 November), we have gathered a range of FREE learning resources from leading academics, clinicians, and researchers to raise awareness of the impact of bullying on child and adolescent mental health. We encourage you to share with your networks.
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Cybervictimization in adolescence and its association with subsequent suicidal ideation/attempt beyond face‐to‐face victimization: a longitudinal population‐based study – video Q & A
Video Q & A about the paper ‘Cybervictimization in adolescence and its association with subsequent suicidal ideation/attempt beyond face‐to‐face victimization: a longitudinal population‐based study’.
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Do cybervictimization and face-to-face victimization affect suicide ideation risk in the same way?
Data from a new study published in the JCPP suggests that cybervictimization is an important risk factor for concurrent, serious suicidal ideation/attempt throughout adolescence.
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