Mental health: Reports

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• Improving the mental health of looked after young people: an exploration of mental health stigma
  This report from YoungMinds, highlights the stigma surrounding the mental health of looked after children and young people. With ever increasing numbers of children being taken into care, YoungMinds is warning that serv ...
  
  Publisher: YoungMinds
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Virtual violence II: progress and challenges in the fight against cyberbullying
  A Beatbulling survey found that 28% of 11-16 year-olds have experienced cyberbullying at least onece. This report looks at the prevalence of cyberbullying, who is cyberbullying and what needs to be done to prevent it.
  
  Publisher: Beatbullying
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Mental health and autism: a guide for child and adolescent mental health practitioners
  This book, is aimed at CAMHS professionals and looks at why children with autism may develop mental health problems. It also looks at how some of the more common mental health conditions may present, and some practical w ...
  
  Publisher: National Autistic Society (NAS)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Rethinking mental health in the twenty-first century - Speech by Andy Burnham
  This speech was given at a recent Centre for Social Justice conference.
  
  Publisher: Labour
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Depression in adolescence
  Unipolar depressive disorder in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognised. The incidence, notably in girls, rises sharply after puberty and, by the end of adolescence, the 1 year prevalence rate exceeds 4%. ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Negative childhood experiences and mental health: theoretical, clinical and primary prevention implications
  After decades of ignoring or minimising the prevalence and effects of negative events in childhood, researchers have recently established that a broad range of adverse childhood events are significant risk factors for mo ...
  
  Publisher: The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Who's looking out for the children?
  This joint thematic inspection of six Youth Offending Teams and police force areas examined the experiences of children and young people under 17 years while in police custody.
  
  Publisher: Ministry of Justice
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Child neglect in 2011: An annual review by Action for Children in partnership with the University of Stirling
  Over half (51%) of social workers, and a third of police officers (36%) report feeling 'powerless' to intervene in suspected cases of child neglect, according to this report by children's charity, Action for Children. Th ...
  
  Publisher: Action for Children
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Self-harm in adolescence and future mental health
  Results of several school-based community studies have shown that self-harm (intentional self-injury or self-poisoning) is very common in adolescents, being reported by around 10% of 15 and 16 year olds, although with so ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Victorian visions of child development
  When did medicine first pay attention to the development of the child mind? Most histories would focus on the early 20th century, but that is to ignore the important pre-history of the Victorian era, when early psychiatr ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Rules of engagement: changing the heart of youth justice. A policy report by the Youth Justice Working Group
  This report is a review of the youth justice system to identify how it might be reformed to improve outcomes for young people, victims and society.
  
  Publisher: Centre for Social Justice
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• National ambition to local delivery: report and outcomes of the children and young people's thematic day
  This is the report of the thematic workshop on children and young people’s mental health held at the Department of Health on 25th October 2011. It includes good practice examples of mental health strategy implementation; ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• An analysis of the training needs of frontline staff in inpatient CAMHS
  The aim of this report was to identify the key training and development needs of frontline staff working in inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
  
  Publisher: Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents (FPSA)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Pro-anorexia websites pose public health challenge
  In recent years, websites that promote anorexia and advise people on how to maintain the disorder have appeared on the web. In this article, the author examines the health risks of such sites.
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Eating disorders in children and adolescents
  Eating disorders have been recognized in younger and more diverse populations, now representing an equal opportunity for disease in individuals regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or country. The classificatio ...
  
  Publisher: Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
  Published Date: 2012