Mental health of children and young people

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Specific groups

Mental health of refugee children and unaccompanied minors

Mental health of children and young people of traveller communities

Mental Health of Iranian children and youth

Mental Health of African Caribbean children

Overview

Bose R and Jennings S (2005). Child Psychiatry in a Multi-Cultural Context. Psychiatry.4.(9).132-137. Abstract

Bradby H; Varyani M; Oglethorpe R; Raine W; White I and Helen M (2007). British Asian families and the use of child and adolescent mental health services: A qualitative study of a hard to reach group. Social Science and Medicine. 65.(12).2413-2424. Abstract

Leavey G, Hollins K, King M, Barnes J, Papadopoulos C, Grayson K (2004). Psychological disorder amongst refugee and migrant schoolchildren in London. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 39(3), p. 191-5. Abstract

Kamaldeep Bhui, Kwame McKenzie and Farhat Rasul (2007) Rates, risk factors & methods of self harm among minority ethnic groups in the UK: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 7, 336. Abstract & download

Well-being

Maynard MJ, Harding S, Minnis H (2007). Psychological well-being in Black Caribbean, Black African, and White adolescents in the UK Medical Research Council DASH study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42(9), p. 759-69 Abstract

Antecedents of Schizophrenia

Laurens et al (2007) found that, as in the adult population, African-Caribbean children show more antecedents of schizophrenia than their White-British peers.

Laurens KR, West SA, Murray RM, Hodgins S (2007). Psychotic-like experiences and other antecedents of schizophrenia in children aged 9-12 years: a comparison of ethnic and migrant groups in the United Kingdom. Psychol Med, p. 1-9 Abstract