Adolescents
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Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘This article considers how literacies are assembled when ‘reading’ memes and TikToks; how this impacts adolescents’ membership or otherwise of a group; and how a desire for group membership hampers other aspects of literacy when engaging with this kind of social media content.’ Andrew Duffy.
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Age-related differences in social media use, online social support, and depressive symptoms in adolescents and emerging adults
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Using a cross-sectional sample of participants aged 14–22 years, we examined (a) linear and non-linear age-related changes in social media use and online social support and (b) age-related differences in the effects of social media use and online social support on depressive symptoms.’ Madison Politte-Corn et al.
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Factors mitigating the harmful effects of intimate partner violence on adolescents’ depressive symptoms—A longitudinal birth cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This study assessed the extent to which positive experiences were associated with depressive symptoms among children with and without experience of intimate partner violence.’ Dawid Gondek et al.
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Review: Recommendations for male-friendly counselling with adolescent males: A qualitative systematic literature review
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – There are growing calls to tailor counselling practices for adolescent males, a population reluctant to engage in psychological treatment despite concerning rates of mental illness. The objective of this systematic review was to collate and synthesise recommendations for individual counselling with adolescent males (12–18 years). Micah Boerma (pic) et al.
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Improving adolescent mental health and protection in humanitarian settings: longitudinal findings from a multi-arm randomized controlled trial of child-friendly spaces among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “A randomized controlled trial was done in four villages within the Omugo extension of Rhino Camp refugee settlement in the West Nile region of Uganda”. Janna Metzler (pic) et al.
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Short Research Article: Promoting digital citizenship through a school-based intervention in early adolescence in Perú (a pilot quasi-experimental study)
Paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “We piloted a translation and cultural adaptation of a DC curriculum originally designed for the U.S. with students in Perú”. Lucía Magis-Weinberg (pic) et al.
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Research Review: Measuring general mental health in early-mid adolescence: A systematic meta-review of content and psychometrics
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – Adolescent mental health is a major concern and brief general self-report measures can facilitate insight into intervention response and epidemiology via large samples. However, measures’ relative content and psychometrics are unclear. A systematic search of systematic reviews was conducted to identify relevant measures. Louise Black et al.
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Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence: prospective associations and mediating pathways
Open Access paper from the JCPP – We examined prospective relationships between childhood emotional dysregulation and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence; and social cognition, emotional recognition, and being bullied as mediators. Naomi Warne (pic) et al.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 63, Issue 12, December 2022
Editorial: The critical need to assess pubertal development in studies of child and adolescent psychopathology by Kelly L. Klump
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Adolescent sleep, distress, and technology use: weekday versus weekend
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – Self-reported measures of sleep timing, chronotype (early, neither early nor late, late), technology medium (social media/texting, TV/streaming, and gaming), and psychological distress (DASS-21) were collected from 462 students attending one Australian high school. Alexander Reardon et al.
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