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I'll have to lie about where I've been
- Author:
- SESSA Ben
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 76, May 2005, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The author describes a research project that attempted to quantitatively measure stigmatised attitudes, displayed by teenagers towards their peers, with either mental or physical illness. An 18-question survey was given to a group of 200 healthy adolescents (mean age 14.2 years). Results found there were significant levels of stigma towards both mental and physical illness, with a greater tendency to stigmatise towards mental illness.
Doing their heads in?
- Author:
- COWARD Ros
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 75, March 2005, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Investigates increasing worry that cannabis is damaging the mental health of the young.
Assessing adolescent personality pathology
- Authors:
- WESTEN Drew, DUTRA Lissa, SHEDLER Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 186(3), March 2005, pp.227-238.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Personality pathology constitutes a major form of psychopathology in adolescents. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of a Q-sort instrument for assessing adolescent personality pathology designed for clinically experienced informants. A sample of 294 randomly selected psychiatrists and psychologists each provided data on a current patient aged 14-18. Clinicians completed several measures, including the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure for Adolescents (SWAP-200-A). Factor analysis identified 11 dimensions of adolescent personality: psychopathology/malignant narcissism, dysphoria/inhibition, psychological health, histrionic sexualisation, schizotypy, sexual conflict, emotional dysregulation, anxious obsessionality, peer rejection, delinquent behaviour and attentional dysregulation. These correlated in predicted ways with a range of criterion variables, including measures of adaptive functioning, Axis II pathology, the Five Factor Model and the Child Behavior Checklist. The SWAP-200-A shows promise as an instrument for assessing personality pathology in adolescents. Trait dimensions such as delinquent behaviour and emotional dysregulation may prove useful additions to a classification of personality.
Mental health
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The paper looks at what is known about the mental health and emotional well-being of looked after children and young people. It gives a description of mental health and emotional well-being and presents children and young people’s views of mental health and emotional well-being. The paper then examines how healthy care can promote and protect the mental health and emotional well-being of looked after children and young people.
Dual diagnosis and drinking behaviors in an outpatient treatment seeking sample of adolescents with alcohol use disorders
- Authors:
- DEAS Deborah, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 2(1), 2005, pp.47-57.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Co-occurring psychiatric disorders are common in adolescents with substance abuse. This American study examined this relationship to investigate whether certain psychiatric disorders impact severity of drinking behaviours in adolescents with alcohol use disorders. Thirty four outpatient adolescents with alcohol use disorders for comorbid psychiatric disorders using the K-SADS were examined. Their drinking behaviour patterns were examined using the Time-Line Follow-Back. The alcohol drinking parameters were (1) drinks per drinking day (DDD), (2) percent heavy drinking days (PHD), (3) percent heavy drinking days when drinking (PHDD), and (4) percent days abstinent (PDA). Results revealed no significant effect of either ODD or any mood/anxiety disorder on drinking indices; MANOVA revealed a significant effect of ADHD diagnosis. Univariate analysis showed that for all four drinking indices, the group with ADHD had more severe alcohol use. The results suggest that adolescents with ADHD who meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorders have greater drinking severity than those without ADHD. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Comorbid psychiatric disorders and alcohol-related injury among adolescents and young adults treated in emergency departments
- Authors:
- KELLY Thomas M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 2(1), 2005, pp.27-46.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study investigates the prevalence and comorbidity of psychiatric disorders among 215 patients aged 12-20 years-old treated in emergency departments in the United States; and to determine whether young people with specific comorbid psychiatric disorders are at greater risk for alcohol-related medical events than their peers. Comprehensive psychiatric interviews were conducted with participants outside the emergency department. Latent class analysis was used to determine participant clusters based on DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses and emergency treatment for an alcohol-related medical event as indicator variables, while controlling for covariates. A three-cluster model: (1) n = 90, 42%; (2) n = 65, 31%; and (3) n = 57 (27%) provided the best fit to the data. None of the participants in Cluster 1 were treated for alcohol-related events. All members of Cluster 2 were treated for alcohol-related events but only 23% were diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder. Thirty-two members of Cluster 3 (56%) were treated for alcohol-related events and Cluster 3 members were significantly higher than members of Clusters 1 and 2 on rates of: (1) alcohol use disorders, (2) drug use disorders, and 3) disruptive behaviour disorders. One group treated in the ED in this study is at low risk for alcohol-related injury. Conversely, one at risk-group may require brief interventions of low intensity while the other at-risk group displays high rates of comorbid psychiatric disorders and frequently engages in risk-taking behaviours, placing them at highest-risk for experiencing alcohol related injuries. Reduction of alcohol-related injuries in young drinkers depends on differentiating high and low risk drinkers in the emergency department and providing, or referring them to appropriate treatment. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Brief report: classification of adolescent suicide and risk-taking deaths
- Authors:
- SANKEY Melissa, LAWRENCE Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 28(6), December 2005, pp.781-785.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
This study examined the suicide and risk-taking deaths of adolescents aged 12–17 years between January 1996 and December 2000 in New South Wales, Australia. The methodology consisted of a case file review of government records. The aims of the research were to determine patterns in the deaths to examine the extent to which these adolescents could be classified into distinct groups. One hundred and eighty-seven adolescents (133 males, 54 females) died by suicide and risk-taking and could be classified into three distinct groups: deaths resulting from (1) enduring difficulties (124), (2) pivotal life events (26), and (3) adolescent experimentation (28). Avenues for the prevention of further suicide and risk-taking deaths are discussed.
If needs must, ChildLine can
- Authors:
- EASTON Carole, DOW Pamela
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 78, 2005, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
The authors explain how ChildLine can work with CAMHS to fill existing gaps in services.
When mothers have serious mental health problems: parenting as a proximal mediator
- Authors:
- OYSERMAN Daphna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 28(4), August 2005, pp.443-463.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Maternal mental health (MMH) problems are associated with lack of confidence in one's parenting, overly lax or too harsh discipline, and child academic underperformance. We asked if parenting mediates the effect of MMH problems on academic outcomes even among mothers with serious mental illness (n=164). Structural equation analyses show a significant association between MMH problems and permissive (lack of parenting confidence, lack of follow through) parenting and verbal hostility as well as worse academic outcomes (school recorded grades, teacher reported behaviour). Permissive parenting completely mediated the direct effect of MMH on academic outcomes. Further analyses showed that the mediation effect was attributed to a single component of permissive parenting—lack of parenting confidence.
Unemployment benefits, job search activity and mental health: discouraging or buffering effects?
- Author:
- MALMBERG-HEIMONEN Ira
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 25(1), 2005, pp.2-16.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
The modern welfare state forms an important buffer against individual market risks, but has become less effective. Changes are being made in labour market policies generally by restricting access to unemployment benefits and by linking benefits to job search activity. Nevertheless, the effects of these changes are in many cases inconsistent and minor. This study investigates whether unemployment benefits have an impact on job search patterns and whether they are associated in some way with the risks of mental health problems. The study included young unemployed 18-24 year-olds from four countries including Sweden, Finland, Germany and Spain.