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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Psychological resilience in young people – Editorial
Having spent a lot of time on a camp bed in a paediatric ward with young people and their families, some of whom were inpatients for weeks on end and facing huge physical challenges, it has made me wonder a great deal about the elements of psychological resilience in young people. This is a theme for this edition.
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Noisy home environments affect autonomic reactions in infants
Previous research has suggested that children who are exposed to a stressful environment early in life are at a higher risk of adverse long-term outcomes, including mental disorders and cognitive impairment. Now, a team of researchers in the UK have monitored autonomic reactions.
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Parental Mental Illness Guest Editorial by Dympna Cunnane
Most developed countries recognise the children of parents with a mental illness as an at-risk group, who benefit from early intervention to prevent them continuing the intergenerational cycle of mental illness.
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Young COPMI must be better informed to ensure adequate support
Data suggest that children of parents with a mental illness have low mental health literacy and typically do not seek help from health providers.
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