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Is neurocognitive functioning linked to a family history of a suicide attempt?
Jones et al. matched 501 participants (aged 8-21 years) who had a family history of a suicide attempt with ~3,000 participants with no such family history.
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Young people’s help-seeking behaviours: dealing with their own versus a friend’s symptoms of poor mental health
The majority of young people dealing with symptoms of poor mental health experience difficulties seeking help, adolescents are more likely to talk to their friends when experiencing symptoms of poor mental health
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Suicidal ideation in children: is it written all over their face?
A study recently published in the JCPP, has investigated how suicidal thoughts might develop in childhood, focusing on the parent–child relationship.
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JCPP and CAMH editorial team members listed among most highly cited researchers in the world
Who made the most cited list?
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Dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents: a comparison of 16-week and 24-week programmes delivered in a public community setting
Clinicians in CAMHS across Ireland have sought training in DBT-A to treat the increasing number of adolescents presenting to their services with self-harm and/or suicidal behaviour. With a growing national interest in DBT provision in community services, the National DBT Project Ireland was established in 2013 to coordinate training and implementation of DBT (in both adult and child/adolescent services) in the Irish public health service.
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Psychotic Experiences: what they are and why we care about them?
Over the past 20 years, findings from the field of psychosis research have shed new light on the prevalence of PEs among children and adolescents, revealing that about 17% of children and 8% of adolescents report experiences of these phenomena.
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Police contact during adolescence can delay female psychosocial maturation
Over the past 30 years, the rate of female juvenile arrests in the USA has almost doubled. Despite this rapid increase, most research into juvenile delinquency has primarily focused on males.
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Does mental health awareness do more harm than good? A response from Prof Tamsin Ford to The Spectator
The Spectator recently published an article on mental health awareness. Professor Tamsin Ford responds, “The dismissive tone of the article is unfortunate and undermines the important point that the author could have made, which is that policy should be evidence-based and evaluated for unexpected consequences.”
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Elevated anxiety risk in sexual minority adolescents
Adolescents that are not exclusively heterosexual (“sexual minority”) are at an increased risk of developing an anxiety disorder compared to their heterosexual counterparts, according to recent data from a prospective birth cohort study.
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