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  • Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised multiple baseline trial evaluating Knowledge Insight Tools (KIT)

    This study describes the plans for our evaluation of a counselling intervention ('Knowledge Insight Tools or 'KIT') delivered in secondary schools for young people who struggle with anxiety and/or low mood. In collaboration with Place2Be.

    Authors: Constantinou, M. P., Stepanous, J., Lereya, S. T., et al.

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  • Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial (BESST trial): A school-based cluster randomised controlled trial of the DISCOVER workshop

    The Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial investigated the effectiveness of a brief self-referral stress workshop programme for sixth-form students aged 16–18 years old.

    Authors: Kirsty, J, Lisk S., Payne-Cook C., Farishta, Z. et al.

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  • High School Teachers' Experiences of Consumer Technologies for Stress Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study

    This study looks into understanding teachers' experiences and the long-term use of technologies to support stress self-management in the educational context is essential for meaningful insight into the value, opportunity, and benefits of use.

    Authors: Manning, J., Blandford, A., Edbrooke-Childs, J.

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  • Gender, marginalised groups, and young people’s mental health: a longitudinal analysis of trajectories

    This study explores trajectories of mental health over time for young women and girls and young people with other marginalised identities.

    Authors: Lereya, S. T., Norton, S., Crease, M., Deighton, J., et al.

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  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a brief accessible cognitive behavioural therapy programme for stress in school-aged adolescents (BESST): a cluster randomised controlled trial in the UK

    Depression and anxiety are increasingly prevalent in adolescents. The Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial investigated the effectiveness of a brief accessible stress workshop programme for 16–18-yearolds. We aimed to investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the DISCOVER cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) workshop on symptoms of depression in 16–18-year-olds at 6 months compared with treatment-as usual.

    Authors: Brown, J., James, K., Lisk, Stephen., Shearer, J., Byford, S., Stallard, P., Deighton, J., Saunders, D., Yarrum, J., Fonagy, P., Weaver, T., Scare, I., Day, C., Evans, C., & Carter, B.

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  • What Should Personalised Mental Health Support Involve? Views of Young People with Lived Experience and Professionals from Eight Countries

    The aim of this research was to conduct an international qualitative study on the views of young people with lived experience and professionals, on proposed aspects of personalised support for anxiety and/or depression. This work was funded by a Wellcome Trust Mental Health Priority Area “Active Ingredients Youth Insights” commission awarded to the Child Outcomes Research Consortium at Anna Freud.

    Authors: Sheikh, A., Jacob, J., Vostanis, P., Ruby, F., Spuerck, I., Stankovic, M., Morgan, N., Pinheiro Mota, C., Ferreira, F., Eruyar, S., Yilmaz, E. A., Fatima, S. Z., & Edbrooke-Childs, J.

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  • “I can’t escape my scars, even if I do get better”: A qualitative exploration of how adolescents talk about their self-harm and self-harm scars during cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

    This study aimed to explore how depressed adolescents talk about their self-harm behaviours and their self-harm scars during therapy for depression. The findings of this study suggest that it could be helpful for therapists to consider how wider sociocultural beliefs around self-harm may impact how teenagers talk about their self-harm and scars in treatment for depression.

    Authors: Kristen, A., Lecchi, T., Loades, M., & Midgley, N.

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  • Intranasal oxytocin administration improves mood in new mothers with moderate low mood but not in mothers with elevated symptoms of postnatal depression: A randomised controlled trial

    This study investigated if oxytocin nasal administration reduces low mood in new mothers with postnatal depression.

    Authors: Lindley Baron-Cohen, K., Feldman, R., Fearon, P., Fonagy, P.

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  • The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy

    In this paper, we investigated what was the most accurate way of understanding the structure of psychopathology in a Brazilian sample (i.e., 'is psychopathology a unique factor that explains all psychopathological conditions such as anxiety, depression, and antisocial disorders? Or are those conditions actually different categories/problems?').

    Authors: Ramires, V.R.R., Fiorini, G., Schmidt, F. M. D., da Costa, C. P., Deon, E., & Saunders, R.

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