Jo Moriarty’s blog looks at parents and volunteers’ experiences of Home-Start, a family support programme, via the theoretical framework of liminality.
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Youth mental health research priorities: Right People, Right Questions #YoungPeopleMHQ
Pooky Knightsmith summarises and discusses a brand new report from the McPin Foundation, which presents research priorities for children and young people’s mental health.
[read the full story...]Parental homelessness linked to increased risk of mental illness in offspring
Dean Connolly explores a Danish register-based cohort study, which investigates the risk of mental health problems in offspring of parents with a history of homelessness during childhood and adolescence.
[read the full story...]Should we screen new Dads for depression? #DadsMHday
André Tomlin shares his own experiences of being diagnosed with postnatal depression and wonders how we can improve screening for other fathers at risk during the perinatal period.
[read the full story...]The key to maternal mental health? Make it a collective experience again #maternalmhmatters
Carmine Pariante, Hannah Lamdin and Laura Godfrey-Isaacs mark Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week with a blog about the Maternal Journal workshops and events they run, to support pregnant women with a history of mental health problems.
[read the full story...]Perinatal depression in mothers: how can treatment help with parenting and child development?
Eloise Stark publishes her debut blog on a recent systematic review, which looks at the effect that treatment for perinatal depression in mothers can have on parenting and child development.
[read the full story...]Parenting factors associated with adolescent alcohol misuse
Natasha Clarke considers a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, which looks at modifiable parenting factors associated with adolescent alcohol misuse.
[read the full story...]Fathers, fathering and child psychopathology
Jasmin Wertz summarises a recent article that explores how fathers, fathering, parenting styles and dads’ mental health may shape the development of child psychopathology.
[read the full story...]Life’s good under one roof: can co-residing with our adult children prevent depression in later life?
Farhana Mann and Gemma Lewis pore over an instrumental variable study, which looks at the effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life.
[read the full story...]Antecedents of depression in children and young people
Emily Stapley summarises a recent 4-year longitudinal study of the antecedents of new-onset major depressive disorder in children and adolescents at high familial risk.
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