Adolescents
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Compassionate Care and Compassion Fatigue in CAMHS
In this In Conversation podcast, we are joined by consultant clinical psychologist, Dr. Lucy Maddox. Lucy is currently researching compassionate care and compassion fatigue in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and is also passionate about the wider dissemination of psychology ideas.
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Photovoice within Mental Health Research Involving Adolescents
Photovoice, a research method developed by Wang and Burris (1997), combines photography and narrative, and has emerged as a powerful tool for researching adolescent mental health for participants to express themselves visually, providing unique emotional and metaphorical insights less accessible to other traditional research methods.
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Physical Activity Interventions and Adolescent Mental Health
In this Papers Podcast, Gabrielle Hale discusses her CAMH journal review paper ‘Physical activity interventions for the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents: a systematic review’. Gabrielle is the lead author of the paper.
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Editorial: Prevention is the best cure – or is it? A cautionary tale
Free Access paper from the JCPP – ‘If knowledge is power, we can say that with great knowledge comes great power—and with great power comes great responsibility. Part of that responsibility is to not ‘over diagnose and overtreat’ our young people, and to not lose sight of the fact that preventive youth care should be primarily about strengthening resilience—not about detecting and quickly solving problems.’ Geertjan Overbeek (pic) et al.
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Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry
Open Access from the CAMH journal – ‘We aimed to assess the effect of altering the physical environment of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit on the proportion and frequency of adolescents experiencing mechanical coercive measures.’ Klara Czernin et al.
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Trends in adolescent emotional problems in Wales between 2013 and 2019: the contribution of peer relationships
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We tested change in emotional problems in a national sample of young people in Wales in 2013, 2017 and 2019 using identical symptom screens, and examined whether trends were accounted for by changes in youth friendship quality and bullying.’ Rebecca Anthony (pic) et al.
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Why we need to consider the world of young carers – A tribute to Jean Tomsett (recording)
This event, organised by the ACAMH Wales Branch, focused on the role young carers play, and how to help them care for their mental health. It was run for FREE as a tribute to our long serving Committee Chair, Jean Tompsett, who sadly passed away a while ago.
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Interplay of early negative life events, development of orbitofrontal cortical thickness and depression in young adulthood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Using a complete longitudinal design with four time points, we examined whether NLE during childhood and early adolescence predict depressive symptoms in young adulthood through accelerated OFC thinning across adolescence.’ Lea L. Backhausen (pic) and Jonas Granzow et al.
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Melatonin Use and the Risk of Self-Harm and Unintentional Injuries in Youths
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Marica Leone discusses her JCPP paper ‘Melatonin use and the risk of self-harm and unintentional injuries in youths with and without psychiatric disorders’. Marica is the first author of the paper.
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