This collection of Research Digests contains the latest content from ACAMH’s two main academic outputs the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
A collection of latest releases
- Which perinatal exposures confer a risk of offspring depression?
- What role does genetic risk play in shaping the developmental patterns of depressive symptoms?
- How effective are tools to help school staff better respond to young people who self-harm?
- What are the characteristics of arguments that precede youth suicide?
- Do autistic girls talk differently about social groups?
- Do autistic girls have better communication and interaction skills than autistic boys?
- Is frontoamygdalar connectivity in the resting brain linked with externalising behaviours during development?
- Environmental factors linked with identifying as a sexual minority may increase suicidality risk
- EEG data might help identify children at risk for social anxiety
- Does early androgen exposure contribute to autistic traits?
- Cord blood metabolites linked with an ADHD diagnosis in childhood
- Childhood behaviour patterns linked with romantic partnering in adulthood
- Which genetic mechanisms underlie the relationship between preschool vocabulary and later literacy skills?
- Progressive cortical thinning might identify children at risk of developing psychotic spectrum symptoms
- How far have we advanced this decade in understanding reading disorders?
- Chronic illness may present barriers to engaging in CBT for depression
- Child soldiers exposed to more violence and combat are at greater risk of mental health problems
- Preterm infants have social cognition deficits which improve in childhood
- Can we prevent psychosis in high-risk adolescents?
- Can childcare attendance reduce externalising behaviour in children exposed to adversity?
- Emotional abuse during childhood is linked with differences in brain structure
- Mothers’ prenatal BMI is linked with foetal brain connectivity
- How does parenting style affect development in infants with a visual impairment?
- How much do we really know about ‘Theraplay’ for young children?