Birth – 18 years.
Nina Higson-Sweeney summarises a qualitative study exploring the #camhs hashtag on TikTok and how young people experience child and adolescent mental health services.
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Jenna Jacob summarises a co-produced systematic review and meta-analysis exploring rumination and worry as transdiagnostic targets for mental health interventions in young people.
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Dhea Bengardi summarises a Delphi study that involved lived experience and researcher stakeholders in developing a comprehensive set of guidelines for involving youth with lived and living experience of suicide in suicide research.
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Ruby Tsang summarises a recent longitudinal study of trajectories of inflammation in youth and risk of mental and cardiometabolic disorders in adulthood, which finds that high levels of inflammation in childhood may be linked to an increased risk of psychosis, depression and insulin resistance in early adulthood.
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Nora Skjerdingstad presents a recent study that the explores the constant feedback we encounter on social media platforms, and the impact that ‘likes’ can have on adults and young people.
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Monika Raniti and Jennifer Dam summarise a recent narrative systematic review, which suggests that school connectedness can help protect against suicidality, but the research points to it being more protective of suicidal ideation than suicide attempts.
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Lorna Staines discusses a recent Swedish cross-sectional study of 16,255 adolescent twins, which looks at the mental health risks of using psychedelics in the real world.
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Amanda Sabo and Louise La Sala summarise a recent review investigating the impact of social media use on internalising symptoms in adolescents from clinical and community samples.
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Zoe Firth summarises a recent systematic review which finds that anxiety in fathers has a broadly similar impact on children, compared to maternal anxiety.
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Beth Cumber summarises an umbrella review investigating the effectiveness of preventive interventions for children and young people at-risk of developing mental health problems.
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