Adolescents
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Social connectedness and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents
Suicide is a major public health concern claiming over 44,000 lives annually and ranking within the top 10 causes of death for the general population and the 2nd leading cause of death for those aged 15-24 years of age (though there is variation in this when examining causes by racial groups).
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Continued family dysfunction accounts for the association between childhood adversity and adolescent self-harm
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is any deliberate attempt at inflicting physical self-harm in the absence of suicidal intent. NSSI peaks during adolescence, with roughly 17% of adolescents reporting having engaged in it at least once.
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Cortical thickness can differentiate conduct disorder subtypes
A study by Graeme Fairchild and colleagues has used a neuroimaging approach to compare the structural organization (or “covariance”) of brain regions between youths with different subtypes of conduct disorder (CD) and healthy controls (HC).
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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.
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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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Sleepiness in adolescence is associated with criminal behaviour in adulthood
Poor sleep seems to be associated with antisocial and criminal behaviour, but the longitudinal nature of this relationship is unclear.
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Cortical hyperarousal in children may predict insomnia in adolescence
Read about the first developmental study to examine whether increased beta EEG activity in childhood precedes the onset of pathological insomnia symptoms in adolescence.
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Online ADHD service map aims to stop young people slipping through net
Researchers at the University of Exeter have released a map put together from the results of a national survey. The new map aims to help identify existing services and gaps in provision for young adults with Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder (ADHD).
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Negative interpretation bias in adolescents with subclinical social anxiety disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a marked fear or anxiety of social situations where an individual may be exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Now, Yura Loscalzo and colleagues have examined the contribution of different components of interpretation bias — a model proposed to explain SAD whereby affected individuals systematically assign a threatening meaning to an objectively ambiguous stimulus with several possible interpretations.
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The World is constantly changing for young people
This year the focus for World Mental Health Day is ‘Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World’. We often forget that young people are at a stage of their lives when significant change is a common occurrence to them.
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