digital interventions
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Engaging Young People in Conversations Exploring the Impact of Their Online Use on Mental Health
Young people have better access to the internet than ever before, with those under 18 accounting for one in three internet users globally. Recently, The Royal College of the Psychiatrists in the UK advised that social media and online use should be considered in assessing risk of all young people they meet. However, it is currently unclear whether this advice has been implemented in practice.
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Single Session Interventions: Expanding Current Provision and Improving Early Access
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Maria Loades discusses her co-authored Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal paper ‘Technology Matters: Online, self-help single session interventions could expand current provision, improving early access to help for young people with depression symptoms, including minority groups’.
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Technology Matters: Online, self-help single session interventions could expand current provision, improving early access to help for young people with depression symptoms, including minority groups
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Current mental health service provision for young people was primarily designed based on an assumption of repeat attendance to enable access to interventions. This applies to in-person therapy and, in recent years, digitally provided apps and programmes. Yet, discontinuation after only one or two attendances or uses is a common problem. However, there is a different model, which is intentionally designing provision without assuming repeat attendance, that is, single session interventions.’ Maria E. Loades (pic) and Jessica L. Schleider
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Cyberbullying Among Adolescents: Coping Strategies and Cyberbullying Perpetration
In this Papers Podcast, Ahmet Metin and Eyüp Sabır Erbiçer discuss their co-authored CAMH paper ‘Cyberbullying among adolescents in Turkey: the relationship between coping strategies and cyberbullying perpetration’.
This paper was published in the CAMH 2023 Special Issue ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’.
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Debate: Academics should collaborate with the technology industry, but not in lieu of noncollaborative research
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Academics must bear in mind that industry involvement at any particular stage of the research, or at all, is not always appropriate. Some research questions should not and cannot be answered objectively with industry involvement.’ Leon Y. Xiao
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Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons
In this ‘Papers Podcast’, we welcome Professor Lina Gega and Dr. Hiran Thabrew, two of the editors of the CAMH Special Issue ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’, to discuss the Special Issue and their co-produced Editorial ‘Control alt delete – technology and children’s mental health’.
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CAMH Special Issue – ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’
We are delighted to announce the release of the CAMH 2023 Special Issue on ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’, edited by Lina Gega, Jennifer Martin, Kapil Sayal, and Hiran Thabrew.
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Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: extended 12- and 18-month follow-up of a single-blind randomised controlled trial
Open Access paper from the JCPP- “Little is known about the long-term effectiveness of behavioural therapy for tics. We aimed to assess the long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of online therapist-supported exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy for tics 12 and 18 months after treatment initiation.” Chris Hollis (pic) et al.
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Assessing the feasibility of a web-based outcome measurement system in child and adolescent mental health services – myHealthE a randomised controlled feasibility pilot study
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – “This study aimed to assess whether MHE improves the completion of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) compared with paper collection. Secondary objectives were to explore caregiver satisfaction and application acceptability.” Anna C. Morris et al.
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CAMHS around the Campfire journal club – Technology-delivered CBT for pediatric anxiety disorders (recording)
For this session we are welcomed Dr. Matti Cervin, Lund University, and Dr Tobias Lundgren, Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet, to discuss their JCPP paper ‘Technology-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of remission, posttreatment anxiety, and functioning’.
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