CORC - Child Outcomes Research Consortium

Results from Headstart Annual Survey - Executive Summary

Implications and recommendations

1. High rates of mental health problems in this population highlight the importance of finding the best means to promote positive wellbeing, and to prevent and address mental health problems.

2. Tackling mental health problems may involve tackling social inequalities due to the consistent association between deprivation and mental health problems which was evident in the results of this survey.

3. It should not be assumed that young people from minority ethnic groups are at greater risk of mental health problems; this is not the case based on current evidence. In addition, those from different minority ethnic backgrounds should not be grouped together in analysis of the prevalence of mental health.

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Wellbeing Measurement Frameworks - Primary, Secondary, College
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Cybersynapse Podcast: Episode 3

The long term impact of negative childhood experiences

20 NOVEMBER 2017 / Insight

“The film is a documentary highlighting ground-breaking research about the impact of ACEs on children throughout their whole lives. ACEs are traumatic situations and events in a child’s life which can have long-term negative effects on their health and well-being. As well as all forms of abuse and neglect, ACEs include experiences such as parental substance misuse, parental mental health problems or having a parent or carer in prison. The film beautifully crafts together statistics and first-hand testimony.”

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Family therapy for anorexia: can it create closeness and containment in parent-adolescent relationships?

"In England, family therapy is recommended in the NICE guidelines as a therapeutic approach for anorexia. This study was carried out in Australia, and concerns a manualised family therapy aptly named Family-Based Therapy (FBT) (Lock & Le Grange, 2013). FBT is a 20-session therapy that starts by placing the responsibility for food and meals firmly with the parents, and then builds on the family’s reactions to this change through exploration of family communication and relationships."

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"Neuro-plasticity, Resilience and Kids in Pain"

"Resilience research and neuroscience show that young people can overcome trauma and mistreatment and become stronger in the process. The number of caring “adults” outside the family continues to be a major predictor for success in high risk youngsters."


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Mental health service models

"The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has published a research briefing describing new models of children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMHS) being developed by Clinical Commissioning Groups in England. Models being developed include: whole-system models, schools-based models, and community based models."Source:  UK Parliament  Date: 06 October 2017

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2017 Children's Mental Health Report - Child Mind Institute

"In this year’s report, we take a look at the teenage years, highlighting unique factors that make adolescence exciting, important, and potentially dangerous — including its role as a significant risk period for mental health disorders"

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