Child anxiety could be factor in school absences, research concludes

New research has concluded that anxiety can be a factor in poor school attendance among children and young people.

28 February 2019

Sleep and Mental Health

Dr Sally Hobson, Specialty Community Paediatrician, Evelina Children’s Secondary Community Sleep Clinic on the relationship between sleep and mental health.

24 February 2019

Sleep and Mental Health

Sleep difficulties are common in children and adolescents, especially in some high-risk groups, such as young people with developmental difficulties or mental health problems. Clinicians working in paediatric or child mental health settings need an understanding of sleep disorders. It is important to know how sleep disturbance impacts on a young person’s physical and cognitive […]

Event type

Conference

Location

Edinburgh

JCPP Top 60 Cited Articles of All Time

Who made the list?

4 February 2019

Most Cited JCPP Articles #11 of 60

Most cited JCPP papers #11 of 60: Infant intersubjectivity: Research, theory, and clinical applications

31 January 2019

Most Cited JCPP Articles #17 of 60

Most cited JCPP papers #17 of 60: BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST FOR IDENTIFYING SEVERELY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGH-LEVELS OF AUTISTIC BEHAVIOR

27 January 2019

Reflections on JCPP at 60… Professor Cathy Lord

For me, JCPP represented my growing awareness of the field of developmental psychopathology and the possibility that clinicians and researchers could work together to better understand how children and adolescents and families developed over time in a way that helped us better help others.

7 January 2019

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.

1 January 2019

Sensory-action binding: a new facet of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome?

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by a persistent motor or vocal tic present for >1 year.

1 January 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