Anxiety disorders
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Coronavirus, and helping children with autism – Episode 4 ‘Autism, a parents guide’ with Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr. Marianna Murin
Practical tips for parents, in light of school closures, on how to manage anxiety and obsessive behaviours that might be heightened by the cornavirus pandemic. Includes transcript, and links.
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Dr Jon Goldin on the coronavirus and child mental health
Dr. Jon Goldin Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital discusses child mental health in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Assessing and treating anxiety disorders: does one size really fit all?
Researchers first describe how anxiety disorders might develop and be maintained, and then focus on the various assessment and treatment considerations for children and adolescents with 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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