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- Adjorlolo, Samuel, et al.
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Psychotic‐like experiences and adverse life events in young people : Does gender matter?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - : Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - 1475-357X .- 1475-3588.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundPsychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and adverse life events (ALEs) are highly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa where gendered practices are also common. There is, however, a paucity of data on how the relationship between PLEs and life adversities is influenced by gender. The current study addressed this gap.MethodData were collected from 1886 school-based young people (1174 females) in Ghana, West Africa using a cross-sectional survey methodology and analyzed using Chi-square, independent t-test, Pearson correlation, and multivariate regression.ResultsThe results showed that victimization experiences, school stress and having a family member with mental illness were significantly associated with PLEs in both males and females. In contrast, substance misuse and experiences of head trauma correlated significantly with PLEs in females only.ConclusionLife adversities constitute major risk factors for PLEs among school-based young people in Ghana, who could benefit from gender neutral and gender-sensitive intervention programming to remediate the effects of life adversities on PLEs.
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- Ahmad, Abdulbaghi, 1951-, et al.
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Traumatic Experiences and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Kurdish Children in their Native Country and in Exile
- 2008
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Ingår i: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - : Wiley. - 1475-357X .- 1475-3588. ; 13:4, s. 193-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Traumatic experiences and post-traumatic stress symptoms were assessed in Kurdish children in their native country and in exile. Method: 312 randomly selected school-age children at two sites completed assessments of traumatic experiences and post-traumatic symptoms. Results: Although traumatic experiences showed more similarities than differences between the two samples, the PTSD frequencies and post-traumatic stress symptom scores were higher in Kurdistan than in exile. Living in exile showed negative correlation with PTSD frequencies and post-traumatic stress symptom scores. Conclusions: Living in exile seems to have trauma healing effect on children of Kurdistan.
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- Moberg, Jennie, et al.
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Review : Young people’s recovery processes from mental health problems – a scoping review
- 2023
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Ingår i: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - : Wiley. - 1475-357X .- 1475-3588. ; 28:3, s. 393-407
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Recovery from mental illness and mental health problems is relatively well-researched among adults, but evidence that focuses on the recovery experiences of young people and what characterizes it is scarce. With this in mind, this article aims to map out the existing research in order to identify prevailing knowledge about the recovery of young people between the ages of 12 and 25. Method: Drawing on scoping review methodology, this article is based on an analysis of 33 articles conducted in the USA, Australia, and Eur-ope. Results: Our findings reveal that young people express both similar and divergent lines of reasoning about recovery compared with adults. Our findings also indicate that young people often fluctuate in the way they view recovery, and that they thus tend to be ambivalent about what recovery means. Parents usually high-light the importance of professionals facilitating recovery, while care staff problematize the organizational frameworks available as aggravating circumstances for implementing personal recovery. Young people, parents, and care staff consistently describe recovery as a way to, despite lingering problems, enable a satisfying life. Conclusions: Through this review, we outline the need for a more distinct focus on agency and participation in young people’s recovery processes, at the same time as family involvement needs to be further investigated and operationalized.
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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-
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Commentary : Climate change worry among adolescents-on the importance of going beyond the constructive-unconstructive dichotomy to explore coping efforts-a commentary on Sciberras and Fernando (2021)
- 2022
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Ingår i: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - : Routledge. - 1475-357X .- 1475-3588. ; 27:1, s. 89-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This opinion piece comments on Sciberras and Fernando's (2021) article in which an 8-year longitudinal study is presented. The authors investigate trajectories of climate change worry through adolescence and associations with measures of depression and engagement with news and politics in late adolescence. Their objective is to explore whether climate change worry is a constructive or unconstructive psychological phenomenon. Their conclusion is that it is mainly an adaptive response but, for some groups, such as young people with pre-existing mental health problems, climate change worry could exacerbate their difficulties. In this commentary, it is argued that since research has found diverse results regarding whether climate worry is adaptive or not, one should perhaps not focus so much on the emotion itself, but rather on how people cope with their worry. Some examples of how young people cope with climate change are presented, and it is argued that taking account of these coping strategies in future longitudinal studies would be beneficial.
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- Perrin, Sean
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Review of Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents in School Settings
- 2012
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Ingår i: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. - 1475-357X.
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a detailed guide on the principles of cognitive therapy as they are applied to problems of emotion (anxiety, sadness, anger), skill (assertiveness, problem-solving), and general confidence in children and adolescents. The title is slightly misleading in the sense that there is little in the book that specifically relates to how this treatment would be applied in school settings by school personnel rather than a mental health professional seeing children on a 1-1 basis in an office at a school. Nor do the authors provide evidence of how cognitive therapy has been effectively applied in school settings. A much stronger evidence base exists for the application of cognitive-behavioural approaches that have been implemented by school teachers, pedagogues, and school counsellors (often in group format) as part of universal prevention/treatment programmes for anxiety/depression, as well as the treatment (specifically) of PTSD and Social Anxiety Disorder. Non-clinicians working in a school setting (e.g. teachers) could not pick up this manual and use the techniques here for problems of anxiety/depression/confidence without considerable supervision, and the authors rightly acknowledge this limitation. Nevertheless this is a very useful book in that it is a detailed account of cognitive therapy as applied to children and adolescents with emotional disorders. In that regard child and adolescent mental health specialists in and outside of school settings are likely to find the book useful. It has case examples, useful diagrams of formulations, and detailed descriptions of particular interventions associated with cognitive therapy (e.g. behavioural experiments, guided discovery). It is not a disorder-specific description of cognitive therapy, and when it comes to disorders like OCD, PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and GAD - clinicians may want to have a manual specific to these conditions.
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