Anxiety disorders
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Can ‘FRIENDS’ in school help prevent anxiety?
Researchers in Norway have assessed whether the FRIENDS programme is best used as a prevention measure or as a treatment approach for anxiety in school-aged children.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms predict anxiety, and vice versa
Researchers in London have studied the relationship between anxiety sensitivity (the tendency to fear anxiety symptoms) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.
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Most cited CAMH paper #15 of 25: Linking lack of care in childhood to anxiety disorders in emerging adulthood: the role of attachment styles
Adriano Schimmenti, Antonia Bifulco.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Using life span models of experience and development can help identify specific risk pathways from childhood to later disorder to aid prevention strategies -
Most cited CAMH paper #19 of 25: Young People’s Experience of ADHD and Stimulant Medication: A Qualitative Study for the NICE Guideline
Ilina Singh, Tim Kendall, Clare Taylor, Alex Mears, Chris Hollis, Martin Batty, Sinead Keenan.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Close friendships are important to young people with ADHD and are sometimes used to protect them from bullying and in other difficult situations. -
In Conversation… Mood Disorders with Dr. Gordana Milavić
Gordana discusses how conceptions of mood disorders have changed throughout career, highlighting changes such as whilst she was training it was thought that children were unable to get depressed.
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Anxiety Editorial
Owing to anxiety being common, with all of us experiencing a state of anxiety at some time and many also having trait anxiety, ACAMH journals provide good quality research advancing our knowledge of the science and evidence-based practice.
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December 2019 issue – The Bridge
Summaries include; if parental consanguinity predicts the severity of Autistic symptoms; study the transmission of intergenerational anxiety in families; systematic review into the effectiveness of available interventions to treat PTSD; the efficacy of teacher assessments vs exams to assess performance in UK schools; relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and extreme demand avoidance in young people with Autism; and how fluctuations in external environmental noise affect the developing Autonomic Nervous System in babies.
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‘ACEs, Attachment, and Trauma: new advances in understanding and treatment’ – 2020 Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and National Conference
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- National Conference
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- London
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Child anxiety symptoms affect mothers via an environmental mechanism
Intergenerational anxiety associations in families are well reported, but the underlying mechanisms of anxiety transmission are unclear. Now, researchers in the UK and the USA have conducted the first genetically sensitive study to explore the effects of genetic and environmental anxiety transmission in families during middle childhood.
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Resilence Edition Editorial
In this edition we bring together a number of papers that broadly discuss the theme of resilience and developing resilience through therapy.
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