Anxiety
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Dr Jon Goldin on the coronavirus and child mental health
Dr. Jon Goldin Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital discusses child mental health in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Assessing and treating anxiety disorders: does one size really fit all?
Researchers first describe how anxiety disorders might develop and be maintained, and then focus on the various assessment and treatment considerations for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.
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Can ‘FRIENDS’ in school help prevent anxiety?
Researchers in Norway have assessed whether the FRIENDS programme is best used as a prevention measure or as a treatment approach for anxiety in school-aged children.
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Most cited CAMH paper #15 of 25: Linking lack of care in childhood to anxiety disorders in emerging adulthood: the role of attachment styles
Adriano Schimmenti, Antonia Bifulco.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Using life span models of experience and development can help identify specific risk pathways from childhood to later disorder to aid prevention strategies -
Child anxiety symptoms affect mothers via an environmental mechanism
Intergenerational anxiety associations in families are well reported, but the underlying mechanisms of anxiety transmission are unclear. Now, researchers in the UK and the USA have conducted the first genetically sensitive study to explore the effects of genetic and environmental anxiety transmission in families during middle childhood.
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Mindfulness-based interventions improve depression and anxiety outcomes in youths
In 2019, Darren Dunning and colleagues compiled a Research Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in which they evaluated, for the first time, the efficacy of MBIs on cognition and mental health in adolescents <18 years-of-age.
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Anxiety Disorders – Prof. Cathy Cresswell
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In Conversation… Prof. Cathy Cresswell – Anxiety and ‘Emerging Minds’
Cathy Cresswell, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford discusses anxiety and ‘Emerging Minds’ – action for child mental health.
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Psychological resilience in young people
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.
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The association between anxiety and poor school attendance
School plays a key role in children’s development, and frequent absence from school increases the likelihood of a range of adverse outcomes in childhood and later life. This includes poor academic performance, social isolation, economic deprivation and unemployment in adulthood. There are many risk factors for frequent school absence, including factors related to the child and their family, school and community.
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