DOI: 10.13056/acamh.32140
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.32140

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Barry Coughlan discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Risk rates and profiles at intake in child and adolescent mental health services: A cohort and latent class analyses of 21,688 young people in South London’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12246). Barry is the lead author of the paper.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

- The benefits and challenges of using routinely collected data.
- Insight into the ‘brief risk assessment’ measure and how it was implemented.
- Overview of the latent class analyses and how they decided which class to go with.
- How maltreatment and different forms of contextual adversity can interact with different forms of risk at the child level.
- Implications for clinical practices and researchers.
- The role of experts by experience in this research and how they enhanced the research project.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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Risk Practices in CAMHS: Exploring Risk Rates and Profiles at Intake

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