Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
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Paediatric anxiety disorders confer a considerable public health burden
Anxiety disorders usually begin in childhood or adolescence and are the most common mental health condition across the life span.1,2 Consequently, intense research efforts are focused on delineating the underlying mechanisms of paediatric anxiety so that we can better identify those at risk and intervene early.
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April 2020 – The Bridge
This edition of The Bridge focuses on CBT, includes ‘Can transdiagnostic CBT improve outcomes in children with ASD?’ and ‘Does online CBT work for treating adolescent anxiety?’
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Parental Mental Illness Special Edition
Welcome to The Bridge. In this edition we focus on parental mental illness and its effect on children. This is published in advance of the ACAMH conference “Parental Mental Illness – Supporting children and young people who live with a parent with a mental illness”.
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Suicide and Self-Harm Special Edition
The National Confidential Enquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health Annual Report (2018) highlighted that suicide in the under 20’s is rising generally and that the number of suicides rises towards late teens.
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Anxiety Disorders – Prof. Cathy Cresswell
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Most adolescents with depression are significantly fatigued: What can we do about it?
“Fatigue” describes an extreme state of tiredness or exhaustion. When it is ongoing and not explained by exertion, it can become problematic.
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Early cognitive therapy for traumatised young people works and is also cost-effective
More than half of children and adolescents will experience traumatic events like vehicle accidents, house fires, or violence. However, brief counselling for young people in the immediate aftermath of an acute traumatic event has not be shown to be any more effective than not intervening and allowing natural recovery to take its course.
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Access to evidence-based behavioural interventions needs improving for children affected by Tics
In 2016, Chris Hollis and colleagues compiled a Practitioner Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry evaluating the most effective and well-supported interventions for children and young people affected by Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder. Here, they discuss the key findings from their systematic review, and highlight that children and young people affected by tics require improved access to evidence-based behavioural interventions.
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Improvements of adolescent psychopathology after insomnia treatment: Results from a randomized controlled trial over one year.
Many adolescents experience sleep problems, which can be caused by hormonal changes during puberty, and social changes with increasing complexity of daily life while growing up.
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Parent-led group CBT training can reduce anxiety in children
A brief psychological intervention in which parents and carers are supported in applying cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles in their child’s day-to-day life can lead to good outcomes for child anxiety disorders, according to new research.
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