Zoë Firth is a Research Assistant at the CAMHS Digital Lab at King’s College London. After an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, she completed a MSc in Clinical Linguistics at the Universities of Groningen, Potsdam, and Eastern Finland. She has worked in inpatient psychiatric care as a Healthcare Assistant, as well as in mental health services for survivors of gender-based violence within the nonprofit sector. In her current role, Zoë works on a variety of projects which use digital methods of researching, assessing, and treating mental illness in children and young people.
Two major reviews find early intervention shows promise for youth mental health, but the evidence is stronger for psychosis than for anxiety and depression.
Referrals to CAMHS have skyrocketed, but are we getting any better at diagnosing youth mental health problems? Could standardised diagnostic tools like the DAWBA help? A new RCT suggests the answer is more complicated than expected.
Zoe Firth summarises a recent systematic review which finds that anxiety in fathers has a broadly similar impact on children, compared to maternal anxiety.
