Environmental influences
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A mother’s touch: a key player in fine tuning the function of our genome
There is debate as to the importance of genetics in determining our behaviour. This debate has become enshrined perhaps due to the early focus of genetics on searching for DNA variation in our genome (termed a polymorphism) that affected protein structure, the hypothesis being that such a protein variant would not be working optimally in our body throughout our life.
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Children’s Understanding of Depression
Depression is a mental illness that affects children and especially adolescents, however little is known about how children and adolescents understand depression. Gaining an understanding of how children perceive illness can facilitate effective communication with health professionals and children’s active involvement in decision-making about their health.
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What is the effect of post-institutionalisation? A research digest
Research digest on DePasquale, Donzella and Gunnar’s (2018) study, which was published JCPP ‘Pubertal recalibration of cortisol reactivity following early life stress: a cross‐sectional analysis’.
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #9 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #9 of 60: Antenatal maternal stress and long-term effects on child neurodevelopment: how and why?
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 02, February 2019
“Closing in on causal links between environmental exposures and human development using observational data – “confound those confounders!”” by Pasco Fearon
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Podcast with Professor David Olds
In this podcast Professor David Olds talks to freelance journalist Jo Carlowe about his career, attachment and the work of Family Nurse Partnership.
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #30 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #30 of 60: Parent-infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing; physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #53 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #53 of 60: Towards a family process model of maternal and paternal depressive symptoms: exploring multiple relations with child and family functioning
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #56 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #56 of 60: Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments: research findings, applications, and future directions
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Back to school
“The government has recognised the need for greater focus on child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing, although is yet to provide adequate funding to match its rhetoric or a clear strategy for what in-school intervention would look like. Whilst early preventative programmes can be really useful for young people, I can’t help but think that the newly proposed in-school mental health initiatives might to some extent be treating problems created by the education culture that has been set up.”
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