{"id":34368,"date":"2015-06-04T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34368"},"modified":"2015-06-04T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:45:34","slug":"the-bmj-today-the-earlier-the-better-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/04\/the-bmj-today-the-earlier-the-better-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: The earlier the better for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/child_with_cough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34369\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/child_with_cough-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"child_with_cough\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>The BMJ<\/em> has this week published not one but two summaries of new NICE guidance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2305\">\u2022 The first is on bronchiolitis in children<\/a>. Our summary will take you through diagnosis, referral, admission and management of the condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The second summary of NICE guidance deals with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2652\">challenging behaviour and learning disabilities<\/a>. Again, this will take you through the assessment process, and also details the support that will be required and a range interventions \u2013 from parent training and modified environments to antipsychotics.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/depressed_teen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34370\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/06\/depressed_teen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"depressed_teen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Many people exhibiting challenging behaviour may also be at risk of depression or other mental health disorders. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2469\">Research published this week<\/a>\u00a0looks at the role of peer victimisation on depression in later life. A collaboration between mental health researchers at a number of leading universities has analysed longitudinal data from the ALSPAC birth cohort and found a nearly threefold increase in the number of people reporting frequent victimisation at age 13 being depressed at age 18, compared to those reporting no victimisation. This highlights the importance of early intervention, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2694\">as discussed in the linked editorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Will Stahl-\u00adTimmins<\/strong> is interactive data visualisation designer,<\/em> The BMJ<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ has this week published not one but two summaries of new NICE guidance: \u2022 The first is on bronchiolitis in children. Our summary will take you through diagnosis, referral, admission and management of the condition. \u2022 The second summary of NICE guidance deals with challenging behaviour and learning disabilities. Again, this will take [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/04\/the-bmj-today-the-earlier-the-better-for-mental-health\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}