Healthy habits start young! Encouraging adolescents to build self esteem and maintain positive friendships lays the foundation for a brighter future. Let's empower young people with the knowledge and support they need to thrive. #youth#AdolescentDevelopment#youngpeoplessafety
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The broader takeaway: adolescent risk is shaped by family, education, peers, and community support together.
If we want healthier pathways for young people, we need systems that support families before problems become crises.
#AdolescentDevelopment#YouthWellbeing
5/ Specialist gender services were a mistake and should now be disbanded. Specialism narrows the lens. Good child and adolescent mental health care requires the broadest possible formulation: family, trauma, neurodiversity, mood, identity development not a preoccupation with one organising theme.
@sueevansprotect and I said this from the outset: specialist services risk narrowing investigation and foreclosing the broader developmental understanding these young people require.
@clairecoutinho@Telegraph#CAMHS#MentalHealth#ClinicalGovernance#AdolescentDevelopment
4/ What also needs investigation is the failure of our clinical institutions to contain distress. Under pressure, clinicians can struggle to tolerate uncertainty and reach for concrete solutions. As discussed in my recent paper, when institutions lose the capacity to think, developmental care is replaced by premature action.
@BBCNewsnight@BBCr4today@TheBMA@JamesEsses#ClinicalGovernance#InstitutionalFailure#MentalHealth#CAMHS
2/ Psychological fragility can make the uncertainty of normal developmental anxieties feel intolerable and threatening. When uncertainty feels dangerous, concrete solutions can appear falsely relieving. Good CAMHS work helps young people think, rather than prematurely act on distress.
@RosieDuffield1@Transgendertrd#CAMHS#AdolescentDevelopment#MentalHealth#ClinicalGovernance
The Pathways trial does not appear to engage with how psychological pressure can drive young people toward concrete medical solutions to bypass psychological thought, particularly where the capacity for symbolic thinking has collapsed or failed to develop.
This issue is explored in depth in my latest open-access paper, Beyond Affirmation, which examines affirmation as a psychological and institutional defence against developmental pain.
@bmj_latest@Hilary_Cass@WesselyS@wesstreeting@Transgendertrd@genspect@segm_ebm#GenderDysphoria#MentalHealth#ClinicalEthics#AdolescentDevelopment
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Join us for the 9th International Workshop on Adolescence , SRHR and HIV 2025 — a dynamic and interactive space where we explore the intersection of adolescent development, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and HIV prevention and care. This year the workshop will be held at Travel Lodge, Gaborone from the 1st to the 3rd October 2025
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📚 mybook.to/TAABook2
Review: “PowerPoint-style format real-life examples = engaging learning experience! Help your teen thrive through their transformative years.” #AdolescentDevelopment
📚 mybook.to/TAABook2
Review: “PowerPoint-style format real-life examples = engaging learning experience! Help your teen thrive through their transformative years.” #AdolescentDevelopment
📚 mybook.to/TAABook2
Review: “PowerPoint-style format real-life examples = engaging learning experience! Help your teen thrive through their transformative years.” #AdolescentDevelopment