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The Emotional Toll of Insider Qualitative Research
In this blog, Tavgah Jafar explores the emotional challenges of insider qualitative research, drawing from their personal experiences. Tavgah reflects on the unexpected emotional impact and share lessons learned, alongside practical advice for new researchers to manage these challenges.
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From COP29 to Net Zero Mental Health Care: What does it mean for Child and Adolescent Mental Health professionals?
Climate change and biodiversity loss are affecting the mental health of children and young people worldwide. Although many of us care deeply about ecological issues, they can seem less relevant to clinical practice and research. In this blog, Dr Shuo Zhang and Shailpriya Nand briefly summarise the literature on climate change and youth mental health before considering how Child and Adolescent Mental Health professionals can play a vital role in both reducing the carbon costs of healthcare and strengthening population mental health.
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University Students and Imposterism: Its Relationship with Happiness, Self-Efficacy, and Perfectionism
Imposter syndrome is a pertinent issue in academia. A recent article from May 2023 titled “The imposter phenomenon and its relationship with self-efficacy, perfectionism and happiness in university students” (Pákozdy et al., 2023) sheds light on this pressing issue. This blog aims to summarise the key findings of the article, discuss its strengths and limitations, evaluate its evidence, and provide a personal perspective on how this evidence can inform practice and future research.
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Professor Stephan Collishaw
Professor Stephan Collishaw serves as co-director for the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health and Professor in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section in the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University.
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JCPP Annual Research Review 2024 – “Time may change me”: Developmental change across multiple time scales
We are delighted to announce the release of the 2024 Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) Annual Research Review, edited by Sara R. Jaffee.
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Inclusion and Advocacy for Women with ADHD: Addressing Inequities and Challenging Diagnostic Bias on International Women’s Day
March 8th, 2024 is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is “Inspire Inclusion.” Unfortunately, women who hold multiple intersecting identities that are systemically oppressed world-wide are often excluded from discussions. One example includes women who are neurodiverse, and more specifically for this post, women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Women and non-binary folks are often excluded from appropriate diagnosis of ADHD due to bias in providers, boy/men-dominated symptoms in the DSM-5 (Barkley, 2023; Hinshaw et al., 2021), socialization to mask and internalize symptoms, and sexism and other forms of discrimination. As with most discrimination, this is even worse for women with ADHD who also hold other systemically oppressed identities. This blog will focus on how to increase equity for women with ADHD with concrete solutions for multiples systems that affect them.
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Transactional associations of child irritability and anxiety with parent psychological control in Taiwanese school-aged children
Open Access JCPP Advances paper – ‘Child irritability and anxiety are associated with parent psychological control; yet their transactional relations over time are not well-characterized at the within-person level. Research addressing generalizability of past Western-based literature in non-Western, collectivist community samples is lacking.’ Ka Shu Lee (pic) et al.
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Toward an optimized assessment of adolescent psychopathology risk: Multilevel environmental profiles and child irritability as predictors
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘To build the foundation for a parsimonious psychopathology risk calculator while capturing the complexity and dynamic nature of the environment, the current study aimed to identify distinct risk and resilience profiles with a wide range of environmental factors guided by Bronfenbrenner’s biopsychosocial ecological system theory.’ Qiongru Yu (pic) et al.
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Mothers’ symptoms of anxiety and depression and the development of child temperament: A genetically informative, longitudinal investigation
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We explored longitudinal associations between mothers’ emotional symptoms and child temperament traits and adjusted for genetic effects shared across generations’. Y. I. Ahmadzadeh (pic) et al.
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Prospective prediction of developing internalizing disorders in ADHD
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Clinical course in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heterogeneous with respect to both core symptoms and associated features and impairment”. Sarah L. Karalunas (pic) et al.
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