Youth mental health Blog Posts

• Childhood attention problems a risk factor for socio-economic disadvantage

  25 May 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Telephone-based treatments can help children with disruptive behaviour and anxiety

  15 May 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• NICE publish draft public heath guidance for social and emotional wellbeing in young children

  25 Apr 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Young people recently in contact with psychiatric services are 12 times more likely than other young people to attempt suicide

  19 Apr 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Targeted psychotherapies work best for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders, according to major new meta-analysis

  10 Apr 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Insufficient evidence to recommend tricyclic antidepressants as a treatment for autism spectrum disorders

  23 Mar 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• NHS Atlas for children and young people highlights sevenfold variation in mental heath inpatient admissions

  16 Mar 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Web-based CBT is equal to face-to-face CBT at reducing anxiety in adolescents, accordingly to randomised controlled trial

  15 Mar 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• No robust evidence that formal mentoring programmes help adolescents resist drugs and alcohol

  13 Mar 2012

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Well conducted studies are urgently needed to assess the adverse effects of antipsychotics in children and young people

  07 Mar 2012

  • Andre Tomlin