School-based interventions
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Leading lights celebrated in the ACAMH Awards
We are delighted to announce the inaugural winners of the ACAMH Awards, recognising the work of individuals whose work advances our understanding of mental health in children and young people.
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The association between anxiety and poor school attendance
School plays a key role in children’s development, and frequent absence from school increases the likelihood of a range of adverse outcomes in childhood and later life. This includes poor academic performance, social isolation, economic deprivation and unemployment in adulthood. There are many risk factors for frequent school absence, including factors related to the child and their family, school and community.
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Ordo ab chao: The need for systematic reviews
…researchers are expected to strive exhaustively in their effort to gather a number of studies and research findings before rigorously assessing them for their quality and then presenting the conclusions in a reasoned, fair, and impartial summary.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 24, Issue 2, May 2019
Editorial: Debates in scientific practice
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Cognitive flexibility in OCD: challenging the paradigm
Data from a new study by Nicole Wolff and colleagues suggest that cognitive flexibility can be better in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) than typically developing controls.
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Mental Health in Educational Settings – member content
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‘To strive, to seek, to find’: A call for RCTs
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is widely held as the gold standard for clinical trials.
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Professor Terrie Moffitt – Epidemiology – ‘Future challenges for the science of child psychology and psychiatry’
Recorded lecture from Professor Terrie Moffitt, at the Wellcome Collection, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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Child anxiety could be factor in school absences, research concludes
New research has concluded that anxiety can be a factor in poor school attendance among children and young people.
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Bipolar debate
In the latest edition of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal we have a series of papers debating Bipolar. Get involved and give us your views.
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