Comorbidity
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How’s your day been?
If you’re living, teaching, or working with an autistic teenager, you’ve probably, at some point said ‘Uplifting’. ‘Hilarious’. ‘Rewarding’. You’ve also most likely said something like; ‘Challenging’. ‘A struggle’. ‘Testing’.
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Inclusion and Advocacy for Women with ADHD: Addressing Inequities and Challenging Diagnostic Bias on International Women’s Day
March 8th, 2024 is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is “Inspire Inclusion.” Unfortunately, women who hold multiple intersecting identities that are systemically oppressed world-wide are often excluded from discussions. One example includes women who are neurodiverse, and more specifically for this post, women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Women and non-binary folks are often excluded from appropriate diagnosis of ADHD due to bias in providers, boy/men-dominated symptoms in the DSM-5 (Barkley, 2023; Hinshaw et al., 2021), socialization to mask and internalize symptoms, and sexism and other forms of discrimination. As with most discrimination, this is even worse for women with ADHD who also hold other systemically oppressed identities. This blog will focus on how to increase equity for women with ADHD with concrete solutions for multiples systems that affect them.
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Exposure to prenatal infection and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children: a longitudinal population-based study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘In this study, we investigated whether exposure to common infections during pregnancy is prospectively associated with repeatedly assessed child psychiatric symptoms in a large population-based study.’ Anna Suleri (pic) et al.
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Characteristics of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people with PTSD following multiple trauma exposure
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The objective of the present study was to investigate how trauma characteristics, comorbid psychopathology and cognitive and social factors experienced by children and adolescents with a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis following exposure to multiple traumatic events differs between those who meet the criteria for CPTSD and those who do not.’ Katie Lofthouse et al.
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Autism; Depression in children and teenagers – Prof. Tony Attwood Special (recording)
Delegates only. This session focused on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help children and young people with autism with depression.
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Research Review: The internalizing paradox – youth anxiety and depression symptoms, psychotherapy outcomes, and implications for research and practice
Paper from the JCPP – ‘Drawing on recent research, we examine candidate explanations for this paradox to help identify strategies for addressing it by improving outcomes for youth depression.’ John R. Weisz (pic) et al.
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Research Review: Integrated healthcare for children and young people in secondary/tertiary care – a systematic review
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This systematic review synthesises and evaluates the evidence for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of integrated care for children and young people in secondary and tertiary healthcare settings.’ Naomi Pygott et al.
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Practitioner Review: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder – the importance of depression
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, show high rates of mental health problems, of which depression is one of the most common. Given that depression in ASD and ADHD is linked with a range of poor outcomes, knowledge of how clinicians should assess, identify and treat depression in the context of these neurodevelopmental disorders is much needed”. Anita Thapar (pic) et al.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 63, Issue 05, May 2022
Editorial: ‘The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?’ by Helen L. Fisher
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How far have we advanced this decade in understanding reading disorders?
Earlier this year, Margaret Snowling and Charles Hulme at the University of Oxford compiled an Annual Research Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry on reading disorders.
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