Bedtime social media use, sleep, and affective wellbeing in young adults: an experience sampling study – video abstract

Video abstract from Ahuti Das‐Friebel on the JCPP paper ‘Bedtime social media use, sleep, and affective wellbeing in young adults: an experience sampling study’.

8 October 2020

September 2020 – The Bridge

The month of September is a challenging time for young people, as they start a new school year. September 2020 will be particularly difficult for many, as they must also deal with the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing, as well as the effects of increasing financial pressures on families.

9 September 2020

Increasing knife crime: Aggressive Adolescents or Traumatized Teenagers?

Georgia Harvey discusses the link between anxiety, trauma and knife crime in young people.

2 April 2020

Insecure paternal attachment contributes to childhood anxiety

A recent study has investigated the direct and indirect relationships between parent–child attachment and negative parental behaviours exhibited by mothers and fathers, individually, in a sample of children with clinical anxiety.

13 January 2020

Anxiety Editorial

Owing to anxiety being common, with all of us experiencing a state of anxiety at some time and many also having trait anxiety, ACAMH journals provide good quality research advancing our knowledge of the science and evidence-based practice.

16 December 2019

Anxiety Edition

This edition of The Bridge covers the topic of anxiety. Owing to anxiety being common, with all of us experiencing a state of anxiety at some time and many also having trait anxiety, it is no surprise that ACAMH’s two main academic outputs the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health contain some good quality research on anxiety advancing our knowledge of the science and evidence based practice.

19 December 2018

The overlap between low self-esteem and anxiety/depression in CAMHS

Our systematic review aimed to establish what is known about low self-esteem and anxiety/depression in young people (<18s). We wanted to find out whether young people with clinically significant anxiety disorders and/or depression also have low self-esteem as measured on validated questionnaires. We also wanted to know whether young people with low self-esteem as measured on a validated questionnaire develop depression and anxiety symptomology later in adolescence and young adulthood.

8 August 2018

Elevated anxiety risk in sexual minority adolescents

Adolescents that are not exclusively heterosexual (“sexual minority”) are at an increased risk of developing an anxiety disorder compared to their heterosexual counterparts, according to recent data from a prospective birth cohort study.

1 April 2018

Anxiety, Depression and Autism (ASD) Conference

21 November 2017

The Relationship Between Dissociation and Panic Symptoms in Adolescence

In this Papers Podcast, Lottie Shipp discusses her JCPP Advances paper ‘The relationship between dissociation and panic symptoms in adolescence and the exploration of potential mediators’. Lottie is the lead author of the paper.

12 February 2024