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Katie Cunningham-Rowe

@katiecr.bsky.social

Research assistant at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, researching ADHD in adolescents @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social | Interested in child and adolescent mental health, and preventing negative outcomes | She/Her

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Katie Cunningham-Rowe@katiecr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share the findings from Master's! Huge thanks to Lucy for her support and to my participants for their insight. Amongst all the discussions happening on self-diagnosis it was great to find this nuance and empathy from the clinicians we spoke to. Lucy summarizes the work very well below.

Dr Lucy Foulkes@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌟 NEW PREPRINT: Adolescent self-diagnosis of mental disorders: An interview study of clinicians’ perspectives (N=16) Concerns over self-diagnosis are increasing, but research is limited. What do clinicians think about this phenomenon, and do they think it impacts therapy? tinyurl.com/4zkz7nyh /1

Abstract Background: Concerns over self-diagnosis of mental disorders amongst adolescents have been increasing, but very little empirical research exists to understand what clinicians think about this phenomenon or how it might impact psychological therapy. Method: Semi-structured one-to-one interviews were conducted with 16 mental health professionals, exploring their experiences with and attitudes towards self-diagnosis of mental disorders in adolescents. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Results: Five themes were generated. The first two focused on factors contributing to the rise in self-diagnosis: (1) Self-diagnosis stems from an inherent need to be understood and (2) Access to diagnostic language has proliferated. The latter three focused on the impact of self-diagnosis on therapy: (3) Self-diagnosis is meaningful therapeutic material; (4) When adolescents feel validated, self-diagnosis often fades over time; and (5) Self-diagnosis becomes a barrier to change when it is inflexible. Discussion: The study indicates that, in most cases, clinicians do not consider self-diagnosis as problematic and report it can sometimes help understand the adolescent’s concerns. However, our study also supports concerns about harm to the individual when self-diagnosis is inflexible, and how self-diagnosis could be harmful on a population level if it trivialises psychiatric language and suffering. These findings suggest the need for careful management of self-diagnosis in clinical settings and addressing public discourse that promotes self-diagnosis.
Yuri Milaneschi@ymilaneschi.bsky.social · 2y ago

It was a pleasure to contribute to @thementalelf.bsky.social. In my piece, I discuss findings from a recent study by Spiller et al. (JAMA Psychiatry) on the heterogeneity of symptom presentation in mental disorder diagnoses.

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 2y ago

The many faces of mental disorders https://buff.ly/3ZlOTVJ Yuri Milaneschi @ymilaneschi.bsky.social finds that although there are many different faces of mental health problems, some of these faces are far more common than others. #MentalHealth #Diagnosis #Symptoms #Depression #PTSD #Anxiety

ADHD Remote Technology (ART), King’s College London@adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the ADHD Remote Technology (ART) group at @IOPPN, King’s College London. Led by Profs Jonna Kuntsi & Richard Dobson, we study ADHD and related traits using wearables and smartphones. Explore more: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/adh.... Follow us for updates on ADHD research!

ADHD Remote Technology (ART)

The ADHD Remote Technology (ART) research programme focuses on the development and application of a novel remote measurement technology system for ADHD

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Nick Davies@njdavies.bsky.social · 2y ago

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.

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