Parenting
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International Day of Families
Research on the importance of attachment and positive relationships, families ability to be a mental health intervention and some timely tips for practitioners to help parents manage challenging behaviour with homeschooling and lockdown.
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Parents provide their perspective on the crossroads of autism and deafness
Often “diagnostic overshadowing” takes place — whereby autism might mask hearing loss or intellectual disability, and vice versa — is a real concern in children affected by both conditions.
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A polygenic score for age‐at‐first‐birth predicts disinhibition – Leah Richmond‐Rakerd video abstract
Leah Richmond‐Rakerd gives a video abstract of her paper ‘A polygenic score for age‐at‐first‐birth predicts disinhibition’ first published in Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) 27 March 2020.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 04, April 2020
“The Primacy of parenting” by Joan L. Luby
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Early adoption protects against internalizing, but not externalizing, problems
Researchers in the UK have used data from two groups of early-adopted individuals (from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts) to comprehensively describe outcomes up to mid-life.
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Most cited CAMH paper joint #3 of 25: Screening Efficiency of the Child Behavior Checklist and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Systematic Review
Erin M. Warnick, Michael B. Bracken, Stanislav Kasl
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Dimensional symptom scales can be used to help identify areas of difficulty associated with mental health disorders in children and adolescents. -
Most cited CAMH paper #7 of 25: Measurement Issues: Screening and diagnostic instruments for autism spectrum disorders – lessons from research and practise
Tony Charman, Katherine Gotham.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Screening and diagnostic instruments help clinicians least in the cases where they are most in want of direction as their accuracy will always be lower for marginal cases -
Most cited CAMH paper #8 of 25: Review: Effectiveness of mindfulness in improving mental health symptoms of children and adolescents: a meta‐analysis
Kannan Kallapiran, Siew Koo, Richard Kirubakaran, Karen Hancock.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; MBIs are a useful addition to the armamentarium for the treatment of children and adolescents -
Most cited CAMH paper #10 of 25: Implementation quality of whole‐school mental health promotion and students’ academic performance
Katherine L. Dix, Phillip T. Sle,e Michael J. Lawson, John P. Keeves.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Given the known relationship between student academic achievement and mental health, many nations are mounting school‐based mental health interventions: however, the quality of program implementation remains a concern. -
Most cited CAMH paper joint #11 of 25: Long‐Term Outcomes of Incredible Years Parenting Program: Predictors of Adolescent Adjustment
Carolyn Webster‐Stratton, Julie Rinaldi, Jamila M. Reid.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Level of post‐treatment parent‐child coercion predicted adolescent outcomes