Assessing and treating anxiety disorders: does one size really fit all?

Researchers first describe how anxiety disorders might develop and be maintained, and then focus on the various assessment and treatment considerations for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.

28 February 2020

Can ‘FRIENDS’ in school help prevent anxiety?

Researchers in Norway have assessed whether the FRIENDS programme is best used as a prevention measure or as a treatment approach for anxiety in school-aged children.

28 February 2020

Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms predict anxiety, and vice versa

Researchers in London have studied the relationship between anxiety sensitivity (the tendency to fear anxiety symptoms) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms.

28 February 2020

Is parental educational status to blame for academic problems in children?

Children of parents with low educational attainment have up to three-fold higher risk of developing a psychiatric disorder such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression than children of parents with high educational attainment.

28 February 2020

Early adoption protects against internalizing, but not externalizing, problems

Researchers in the UK have used data from two groups of early-adopted individuals (from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts) to comprehensively describe outcomes up to mid-life.

28 February 2020

Digital Interventions for Children and Young People

There are many different digital technologies that can be used at different points in a person’s life, from mental health promotion and prevention through to treatment and subsequent self-management.

Adoption and attachment: A parent’s perspective Part 2

I work as a psychiatrist, and I had a year’s experience of CAMHS psychiatry and I already had two thriving birth children when my adopted daughter came into our lives. None of this had prepared me for the challenges I faced when my daughter moved in.

20 January 2020

A Cross-cultural Examination of Attachment Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescents

Research into the protective factors for adolescent mental health such as attachment will help us understand the challenges adolescents face.

3 January 2020

January 2020 issue – The Bridge ADHD edition

Special edition of The Bridge on ADHD, includes guidelines on service transition for young people, substance use, emotional impulsivity, emotion dysregulation, diagnosis and misdiagnosis.

2 January 2020

Tourette’s Syndrome Editorial

The focus of this Digest is Tourette Syndrome, a condition, which has much stigma attached, stereotyped views by society about what it means and a lack of national clinical guidance.

16 December 2019