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Dr Stephanie Thornton, chartered psychologist and former lecturer in psychology and child development
‘And though there is no evidence for phobias pre-programmed through evolution, there is some evidence in animals that suggests that we may be readier to learn a fear to an evolutionary relevant...
Adolescent and adult anxieties tend to revolve around both personal issues such as peer relationships, school and exams and global or existential issues such as climate change, war, economic crises...
We tend to think of depression as primarily a problem in adolescence. Indeed, it is most commonly first diagnosed in the teenage years (Pile et al, 2020; RCPsych, 2022). But does depression really...
The Children's Society performs regular surveys of happiness with children and their parents or carers, and their reports (The Good Childhood Report) are often cited as evidence for problems with...
‘…there is considerable variation across studies, individuals, and groups of children. For example, whereas most studies report an increase in anxiety through this transition, some report a decrease...
Research takes time. As yet, what we have tends to address one, or at most two or three potential stressors in the news cycle at a time. There is much useful information in that research, but there...
We have long believed that having a first-degree relative (such as a parent or sibling) with psychosis raises an individual's risk of a similar diagnosis. However, the role of genes in triggering...
Severe depression or anxiety are noxious and debilitating, and certainly warrant serious concern, but it is PTSD that concerns many experts the most. The symptoms of PTSD are particularly challenging,...
‘Rates of anxiety and depression have doubled in the past 2 years, affecting all age groups but particularly teenagers. This is scarcely surprising: the pandemic and climate change present...
‘The roots of individual differences [in resilience] lie in innate temperament, which is very strongly influenced by genetics…But genes do not wholly determine how robust a personality an individual...
Sometimes, where aggression is persistent, serious and does not respond to the interventions available within a school, the possibility of exclusion is likely to be considered. Often, that is the...
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