Based on 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, more than 30% of US adolescents experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Moreover, as we emerge from the social and physical distancing required during the COVID-19 pandemic, we also emerge into an era when the social isolation experienced by adolescents during the pandemic is compounded by growing fears and anxieties.
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This article explores the authors’ experiences of supporting the mental health of children and young people with learning disabilities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The article discusses the prevalence of and risk factors for the development of mental health issues in this group. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To develop and psychometrically test the Distress Thermometer for Caregivers (DT‐C) and document the distress level in primary caregivers of children and adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Over the past six months, the Trailblazer project has been working with ten ‘early adopter’ schools whilst establishing four new Mental Health Support Teams which will work closely with the 72 schools in the programme.
Childhood maltreatment is a global public health, human rights, and moral issue that is associated with a substantial mental health burden. We aimed to assess the association between childhood maltreatment and the development of mental ill health and the initiation of new prescriptions for mental ill health.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/2HjNDf3
International Journal of Play Therapy (Oct 10, 2019). DOI:10.1037/pla0000111
There is a need for empirically informed play therapy approaches for children with oppositional and disruptive behaviors. Regulation-focused psychotherapy for children (RFP-C) is a manualized intervention rooted in the longstanding tradition of nondirective, psychodynamic play therapy. It builds on this history by emphasizing concepts drawn from the psychodynamic construct of defense mechanisms and contemporary research on emotion regulation. By using systematic interventions that target children’s defense mechanisms against unpleasant feeling states, RFP-C promotes the development of improved implicit emotion regulation capacities and increases children’s ability to tolerate painful emotions that were previously masked by the disruptive behaviors. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
NHS chief Simon Stevens has today (Thursday October 10th) announced that a new taskforce will be set up to improve current specialist children and young people’s inpatient mental health, autism and learning disability services in England.
School nurses, health visitors and general practice nurses are often in a position to identify the damage due to trauma from adverse childhood experiences and the effect on children’s mental health, says Queen’s Nurse and RCN fellow Ruth Oshikanlu. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
A major mental health research programme, led by the MRC, has been announced today, to explore what makes teenagers more or less likely to develop mental health problems and how we might intervene early.