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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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It’s cold outside, but it’s been a hot year for ACAMH Publications Team
A postcard from the ACAMH Publications Team.
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How Do Schools Address Self-Harm in Adolescents?
In a survey-based study of 153 secondary schools in England and Wales, staff stated that adolescent self-harm is an important concern, but emotional health and wellbeing is the primary health priority for schools.
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JCPP editorial team members amongst the ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds’ of the last ten years
Highlighting, once again, its scientific standing and the quality of its editorial decision making, a number of JCPP editors and editorial advisory board members have been included in the 2018 Clarivate highly cited researchers list announced recently.
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How well children read is largely down to their genes
Children who are avid readers are typically good readers, and children who seldom read a book voluntarily often have dyslexia. Is their reading ability the consequence of how much they practised?
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Renew Your Membership – Prize freeze for 2019!
It couldn’t be easier to renew your membership.
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Online ADHD service map aims to stop young people slipping through net
Researchers at the University of Exeter have released a map put together from the results of a national survey. The new map aims to help identify existing services and gaps in provision for young adults with Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder (ADHD).
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The Importance of Representing Dissociative Identity Disorder in Fiction and Media for Children
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a condition that most of us have heard about, but when we break it down, many of us don’t quite understand what it truly is and how it can affect individuals.
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‘…one of the most inspirational and engaging speakers I have had the privilege of seeing’
Tony Attwood, Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D., and the world’s foremost expert on autism, has confirmed a speaking arrangement with The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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Research issues for children, young people and adults with learning disability and/or autism and their families – some personal reflections
One of the most positive experiences I have ever had was being part of the Childhood Disability Research Priority Setting Partnership through the British Academy of Childhood Disability, the James Lind Alliance and others.
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