Dennis Ougrin

Mental health of children and young people in the WHO Europe region Most mental health disorders start before adulthood. They are highly prevalent, disabling and often treatable. This Series paper discusses the current problems that contribute to the growing child, ad...

A good way to mark World Mental Health Day. Commissioned by the Lancet, our stellar team created this article www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with the accompanying video produced by the Lancet team m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lJ...

Frontiers | Development of methods for WHO quality standards for child and youth mental health services to improve quality of care and patient safety in the WHO European region BackgroundChild and youth mental health care is of varying quality across the WHO European Region, with many settings being low-resourced. To improve and sta...

How do you develop quality standards for child and adolescent mental health services? Stakeholder consultations, primarily with young people, are the key eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

That is the hope! A prospective study is needed

Associations between childhood maltreatment, self-harm, and pain sensitivity in care-experienced adolescents living in the UK: a cross-sectional study Childhood maltreatment is a major public health issue and associated with self-harm in adolescents. Self-harm is the strongest recognised predictor of…

Our group discovered a unique association between the history of sexual abuse self-harm and pain hyposensitivity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An important contribution from our team showing that art therapy reduces burnout in healthcare professionals. Well done, Megan Tjasink!

The Lancet Primary Care in conversation with by The Lancet Group <p>Explore the latest primary care research and topics with <em>The Lancet Primary Care In conversation with</em>. Journal editors speak to community members, primary care professionals, academics, an...

There is a podcast published in the Lancet Primary Care podcast.app/the-lancet-p... about our study showing that a brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial Our data suggest that a brief problem-solving DMHI, efficiently implemented in schools, could reduce internalising symptoms in refugee Ukrainian youths. After context-specific adaptations, DMHIs could...

🆕John Weisz and colleagues report the results of their RCT investigating the effect of a digital problem-solving intervention among Ukrainian youths displaced by war.

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Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial Children and adolescents (hereafter referred to as youths) displaced from their home and country by war face many problems and increased risk of depre…

A brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pain threshold and pain tolerance in young people with Self-Injurious Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Pain sensitivity has been proposed as a contributing factor to self-injurious behavior (SIB). Meta-analytic results show that individuals with SIB hav…

Pain threshold is higher in kids with self-harm, but not pain tolerance. This could provide part of the explanation of the link between self-harm and suicide www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding

Our paper shows that water quality should be prioritised in rebuilding Ukraine after the war

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Suicide risk is hard to predict. Inpatient admissions remain an important marker of suicide risk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children npj Mental Health Research - Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children

No evidence that a digital intervention teaching war-affected children self-calming techniques works - an important study calling for research on other strategies rdcu.be/emFbL

Infant mental health services for birth and foster families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST?): a cluster-randomized phase 3 clinical effectiveness trial - Nature Medicine In a trial examining the effectiveness of an infant mental health service targeting birth and foster families of children aged 0–5 years, families were randomized to receive care from either a multidi...

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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...

Psychological therapies reduce self-harm, but not mortality in kids acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....