wellbeing
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Catching some zzz’s – Sleep, Sleep Hygiene, and Wellbeing
This World Sleep Day (15 March) we encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website and learn more about the importance of sleep health in children and young people. Help us to raise awareness of sleep health through sharing with your networks and colleagues.
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Supporting Children and Young People’s Mental Health – An insight for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers
In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Dr. Mei Simmons discusses some of the factors that affect children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and provides an overview of her recently published book ‘A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q and A for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers’.
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What can we learn from hunter-gatherers about children’s mental health?
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Nikhil Chaudhary and Dr. Annie Swanepoel discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Editorial Perspective: What can we learn from hunter-gatherers about children’s mental health? An evolutionary perspective’.
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Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries, Cambridge study argues
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. And paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing. JCPP Editorial from Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, and Dr Annie Swanepoel.
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Editorial Perspective: What can we learn from hunter-gatherers about children’s mental health? An evolutionary perspective
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Here, we contrast hunter-gatherer childhoods with those of WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic) societies and consider the implications for children’s mental health.’ Nikhil Chaudhary and Annie Swanepoel.
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Social Media Use in Adolescence: User Types and Mental Health
In this podcast, we are joined by Lizzy Winstone to discuss her co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being, results from a longitudinal survey of 13 to 14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’.
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Adventurous Play: A Prevention For Anxiety
As part of ACAMH’s celebration of Playday, the national day for play (3 August 2022), we are joined by Professor Helen Dodd to discuss child mental health and the importance of adventurous play.
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COMET; Student Mental Health and Single-Session Interventions
For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Maria Loades to discuss the Common Elements Toolbox (COMET), a study testing a digital intervention to help university students improve their wellbeing.
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Adolescent social media user types and their mental health
Video abstract from Lizzy Winstone on her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being: Results from a longitudinal survey of 13–14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’.
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Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic
In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Thorhildur Halldorsdottir about her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Are girls struggling more than boys?’.
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