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.

20 January 2020

A Cross-cultural Examination of Attachment Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescents

Research into the protective factors for adolescent mental health such as attachment will help us understand the challenges adolescents face.

3 January 2020

January 2020 issue – The Bridge ADHD edition

Special edition of The Bridge on ADHD, includes guidelines on service transition for young people, substance use, emotional impulsivity, emotion dysregulation, diagnosis and misdiagnosis.

2 January 2020

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.

16 December 2019

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.

12 December 2019

Gender Diversity

Research Digests about Gender Diversity, including anxiety risks, self-image and affirmative care.

‘ACEs, Attachment, and Trauma: new advances in understanding and treatment’ – 2020 Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and National Conference

The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and National Conference returns with a truly incredible line-up, focusing on ‘ACEs, Attachment, and Trauma: new advances in understanding and treatment’

Resilience

Research Digests on Resilience, including mindfulness, self-help, cognitive pathways, dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and implications of self-perceptual bias for ADHD.

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.

14 November 2019

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.

25 October 2019