Anna Freud Centre

Recent papers from Anna Freud Centre

1. Intersectional Inequalities in Mental Health Need and Youth Justice Contact among Pupils enrolled in Alternative Provision2026
2. Mental Health-related School Provision and Hospital Contacts among Pupils enrolled in Alternative Provision2026
3. Beyond the attention economy: Rethinking rising adult ADHD diagnoses in response to Jesudason et al. (2026)Australasian Psychiatry · 2026
4. Learning from neurodivergent students about their mental health and wellbeing during transition to secondary school: A systematic reviewJCPP Advances · 2026
5. Treating trauma, not autism: a critical response to Te Hennepe et al. (2026)European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026
6. Working with goals in youth mental health and substance use service: A review of current practice guidelines and recommendationsJCPP Advances · 2026
7. Investigating Sensorimotor Decision-Making in Depressed Individuals Using a Bayesian ApproachComputational Psychiatry · 2026
8. ‘The one place where I can come and not get in trouble’: emotional safety and epistemic trust in brief psychosocial Intervention for adolescent depressionCounselling Psychology Quarterly · 2026
9. A feasibility study of Watch Me Play! for parents of young children with developmental delayInternational Journal of Developmental Disabilities · 2026
10. Family Ties online help: Pilot evaluation of an online intervention to reduce the impact of parental conflict on childrenPsychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice · 2026
11. Cracks in the foundation: disrupted epistemic trust as a link between trauma, PTSD and disturbances in self-organizationTranslational Psychiatry · 2026
12. A Qualitative Investigation of Children and Young People’s Experiences of Three Universal Classroom-based Mental Health Literacy Interventions in EnglandContemporary School Psychology · 2026
13. The effectiveness of low‐intensity mental health interventions for children and young people in England: a presentation and analysis of synthesised outcomesChild and Adolescent Mental Health · 2026
14. Reducing Emotional Burden Carried by Neurodivergent Students in School: Perspectives From Students and School StaffJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2026
15. A Qualitative Investigation of Managers’ Experiences and Views of Early Support Hubs for Children and Young PeopleAdministration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research · 2026
16. The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Self-Esteem in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism: A Scoping ReviewAutism in Adulthood · 2026
17. Implementation dosage and depressive symptoms following school-based mindfulness and relaxation: Complier Average Causal Effect estimation in the INSPIRE cluster randomised trialEuropean Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026
18. ‘How does she feel about me?’: Exploring foster carer mentalizing and its association with the quality of fostering relationshipsChildren and Youth Services Review · 2026
19. Seeing the New Through the Familiar: How Previous Professional Training Shapes the Early Stages of Learning Mentalization‐Based Therapy in Child Mental Health Services in the UKCounselling and Psychotherapy Research · 2026
20. School-based intervention study examining universal approaches for depressive symptoms and mental health literacy of pupils in Year 9 in England (AWARE): multi-school, parallel group, cluster randomised controlled trialThe British Journal of Psychiatry · 2026