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New evidence on antidepressants and suicide risk in children and young people

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is unfortunately a relatively common condition in children and adolescents.  Depression is estimated to affect 2% of pre-pubertal children and 5-8% of adolescents (Son...

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Antidepressants, safety warnings and suicide risk in young people

Andrew Shepherd reviews the recent controversial BMJ study that suggests the FDA black box warning about antidepressant use in young people, may have inadvertently caused an increase in suicidal...

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Internet-based alcohol and cannabis prevention: Climate Schools and salami...

Matt Field summarises the findings of a recent cluster RCT that uses internet-based prevention (an Australian programme called Climate Schools) to reduce alcohol and cannabis use, truancy,...

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Can schools prevent eating disorders?

In 2012 there was a call from Parliament to research school interventions to reduce body dissatisfaction. Helen Bould reports on an RCT of school-based prevention programme for eating disorders, which...

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Face-to-face psychotherapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents:...

Lisa Burscheidt summarises a recent Cochrane review of psychotherapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents, which concludes that psychological therapies should be considered as a treatment, but...

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To nap or not to nap?

Jennifer Hanratty critically appraises and summarises a new systematic review of napping, child health and development from 0-5 years, which suggests that children should stop taking day-time naps at...

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Can computers replace therapists? Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy...

New bloggers Tania Bosqui and Julie Brown highlight a systematic review from 2010 on (computerised cognitive behavioural therapy) cCBT for chronic pain in children. The post Can computers replace...

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Music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder

In this blog, Nuala Livingstone and Clare McGeady look at a recent Cochrane review that investigated whether music therapy can help people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The post Music therapy...

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Music therapy for neglected children: can music therapy improve the...

In this blog, Nuala Livingstone considers an interesting study with Randomized Controlled Trials design, which looks at the effect of music therapy treatment on parent-child interactions. The post...

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Does training in evidence based practice make clinicians better decision makers?

Jennifer Hanratty highlights a recent cross-sectional study on evidence-based practice, disruptive behaviour disorders, training & clinical decision making. The post Does training in evidence based...

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