Anxiety disorders
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CAMHS around the Campfire – ‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’ Faith Orchard et al (2020)
FREE live online journal club. Each 1-hour meeting will feature a new piece of research, which we’ll discuss in an informal journal club session. 17.00 UK, (USA – 12 noon ET, 11.00 CT, 09.00 PT)
- Event type
- Informal Journal Club
- Location
- Online
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‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’ – video abstract
Video abstract from Dr. Faith Orchard on her paper in JCPP on ‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’.
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Paediatric anxiety disorders confer a considerable public health burden
Anxiety disorders usually begin in childhood or adolescence and are the most common mental health condition across the life span.1,2 Consequently, intense research efforts are focused on delineating the underlying mechanisms of paediatric anxiety so that we can better identify those at risk and intervene early.
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How common and costly is persistent health anxiety in young people?
Health anxiety – characterized by excessive and impairing worry about health issues1 – has been minimally described in childhood and adolescence, and longitudinal studies are lacking.
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Insufficient sleep during adolescence might pose a risk for later depression and anxiety
A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has found that young people who have poor sleep quality and quantity might be at risk of poor mental health later in adolescence and early adulthood.
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‘Sleep Patterns, Associations with Anxiety and Depression’ an ‘In Conversation’ Special with Dr. Faith Orchard
In a special episode of our In Conversation series, we hear from Dr. Faith Orchard about her recent paper, co-author by Prof. Alice M. Gregory, Prof. Michael Gradisar, and Dr. Shirley Reynolds.
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‘OpenHouse on Autism’ – It’s not a tantrum, it’s a meltdown. Creating positivity around emotions.
In this webinar, host Dr. Lucy Sanctuary, Autism Specialist with Clinical Partners, was joined by Clinical Psychologists Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr. Marianna Murin to discover practical ways to address challenges around difficult emotional behaviours.
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Utilization of peer-supported youth hotlines is on the rise
New data suggest that there has been a significant increase in the use of a peer-supported youth hotline between 2010 (~8,000 annual contacts) and 2016 (>12,000 annual contacts). Berit Kerner and colleagues evaluated >67,000 contacts made to a hotline based in Los Angeles, USA.
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A machine learning approach identifies unique predictors of borderline personality disorder
Researchers in the USA have identified critical predictors of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in late adolescence, using a machine learning approach. Joseph Beeney and colleagues harnessed data from a large, prospective, longitudinal dataset of >2,400 girls who were evaluated yearly for various clinical, psychosocial and demographic factors.
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Interventions for reducing loneliness seem effective in young people
Meta-analyses of interventions aimed at reducing loneliness among young people are distinctly lacking in the field. Now, Alice Eccles and Pamela Qualter have addressed this gap by compiling a review for Child and Adolescent Mental Health on interventions to reduce loneliness in young people.
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