Come and work with us! Seeking an 80% fte postdoctoral trial researcher to work on a feasibility trial of a new intervention for childhood OCD in routine child mental health services my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

New paper! Does parent-report SDQ work during a public health crisis (COVID-19)? Good news: the 5-factor structure held up and was comparable across age, gender, SEN, time periods, and UK/Japan samples. But caution needed for conduct & peer subscales. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of Parent-Report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire During a Public Health Crisis - Simona Skripkauskaite, Cathy Creswell, Naho Morisaki, Aurelie ...

The parent-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used child and adolescent mental health screening tool. However, challenging enviro...

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A new open access paper in collab with Carolina Guzman Holst, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social, and MYRIAD team examining differential responses to a universal school based intervention. Massive respect to the MYRIAD team for allowing us to investigate if their intervention was potentially harming CYP.

Dr Lucy Foulkes@lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention Summary below (🧵) acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper on help-seeking among 1,001 neurodivergent adolescents who self-harm. They do seek help-often more than peers-but find formal support less helpful. With @oxwell.bsky.social Galit Geulayov, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & Rohan Borschmann acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library

Adolescents who self-harm are also more likely to seek support from informal than formal sources and least likely to seek support online. But neurodivergent adolescents who self-harm are more likely ....

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"My career path has been winding, but my motivation has never wavered." 💼 In our latest case study, Dr Simona Skripkauskaite reflects on variety - both in her career path as a #mentalhealth #researcher, and in her day-to-day. Read more: 🔎 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/case-studies...

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at Oxford University thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation. Find out more ⬇️

£27 million gift funds new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at the University of Oxford thanks to a £27 million gift from

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🚨 New from the #CoSPACE Consortium: How do we overcome international barriers in #Youth #MentalHealth research during crises? #COVID19 🌍 14sites | 10countries | 1 #GlobalResearch blueprint 📖 Read: rdcu.be/eoDpU @ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @jennymcmahon.bsky.social

Recent headlines suggest #screentime harms #sleep & #mentalHealth in #youngPeople, especially girls. Yet, our latest research shows that #socialMedia use or pre-sleep screen time barely links to adolescent mental health when risky online behaviors are considered: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

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I wrote a blog explaining why I believe administrative #Data is useful and how it can help us understand #MentalHealth support needs in #Neurodiversity better. Read it here: 🔗 www.adruk.org/news-publica... #supporttheyouth @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social

A roadmap to better support for neurodivergent children

ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Simona Skripkauskaite believes linked administrative data research could help build a more supportive and responsive system that me...

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Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology: 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.

Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

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Over the last year, #CoSpace has worked with young people in the UK and #Japan to co-create #international recommendations for #MentalHealthSupport Here is what they said: Supported by @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ukri.org JSPS LeadersUnlocked NCCHD FTCJ everybeing

Another new paper from the @oxwell.bsky.social team here at Child & Adolescent Psychiatry! 📘 Read (free) to learn about social jetlag in young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep

For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...

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OxWell Study@oxwell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴 Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 . ⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep Read more below 👇

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴 Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 . ⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep Read more below 👇

Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep

For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...

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Many of the parents blaming social media for their teens’ mental health struggles are just deflecting blame from their own violence and abuse. And that’s what the report finds. Adults’ violence is one of the major reasons teens struggle.

danah boyd@zephoria.bsky.social · 2y ago

New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

👏Colleagues from our BRC’s Mental Health in Development Theme have established the Wisdom network, bringing together primary and secondary schools in England with academic researchers to enable #mentalhealth research that benefits school communities. Get involved: tinyurl.com/wisdomnetwork

Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.

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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