Depression

  • 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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  • Guest blog on sleep and mental health

    Sleep and Mental Health

    Dr Sally Hobson, Specialty Community Paediatrician, Evelina Children’s Secondary Community Sleep Clinic on the relationship between sleep and mental health.

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  • Most Cited JCPP Articles #2 of 60

    Most cited JCPP papers #2 of 60: Twenty years’ research on peer victimization and psychosocial maladjustment: A meta-analytic review of cross-sectional studies

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  • Most Cited JCPP Articles #10 of 60

    Most cited JCPP papers #10 of 60: Common emotional and behavioral disorders in preschool children: presentation, nosology, and epidemiology

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  • Most Cited JCPP Articles #27 of 60

    Most cited JCPP papers #27 of 60: Is there an epidemic of child or adolescent depression?

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  • Most Cited JCPP Articles #37 of 60

    Most cited JCPP papers #37 of 60: The Socioemotional Development of 5‐year‐old Children of Postnatally Depressed Mothers

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  • Most Cited JCPP Articles #38 of 60

    Most cited JCPP papers #38 of 60: What do childhood anxiety disorders predict?

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  • Exciting opportunity to engage in pioneering anxiety/depression research

    Depression and anxiety (including OCD and other related disorders) are common but complex disorders whose research needs very large sample sizes. The Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) study launched September 2018 and aims to recruit >40,000 individuals.

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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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  • Sleep Edition

    This edition of The Bridge concentrates on sleep, a poignant reminder that I am editing this on a 6am train to London having shortened my own sleep cycle and feeling rather sleep deprived on this dark winter morning.

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