Children in care
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Mental health and care-experienced young people: are our mental health support services appealing and accessible?
Children in care are much more likely to experience mental health problems than young people in the general population. Early life experiences, such as abuse, neglect, parental drug-use or violence likely play a major part in this. So too could the instability that is often inherent in the care system.
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Secondary data analysis of social care records to examine the provision of mental health support for young people in care
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Using routinely collected social care data, we explored the provision of mental health support for 112 young people in care in the UK.’ Alice R. Phillips (pic) et al.
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Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children and links to attachment disordered behaviour
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Compared to children from the community, institutionalised children showed smaller amplitudes in the N170, to both stranger and caregiver faces. Amongst the institutionalised group, living in a setting with a higher children-to-caregivers’ ratio was associated with smaller P400 amplitudes”. Paula Oliveira (pic) et al.
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Complex PTSD in young people in care
Aishat Hamzat, Rachel M Hiller and Helen Minnis discuss what research tells us about the mechanisms underlying complex PTSD symptoms experienced by young people in care. They consider implications for treatment and broader support provided for these young people
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Shining a light on the injustice of institutionalization and the damage it causes to children – to promote care reform across the globe
Led by 22 of the world’s leading experts on reforming care for children, The Lancet Commission on Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation of Children includes a review and meta-analysis of the effects of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation on children’s development, and makes 14 policy recommendations addressed to policymakers at all levels. The Commission was chaired by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London who leads the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) Project.
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What is the effect of post-institutionalisation? A research digest
Research digest on DePasquale, Donzella and Gunnar’s (2018) study, which was published JCPP ‘Pubertal recalibration of cortisol reactivity following early life stress: a cross‐sectional analysis’.
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