Mark Davies

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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Benedetto Vitiello

Johns Hopkins University

James T. McCracken

University of California, Los Angeles

Laurence L. Greenhill

University of California, San Francisco

Howard Abikoff

New York University

Denise B. Kandel

Columbia University

James M. Swanson

University of California, Irvine

Mark A. Riddle

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Shirley Z. Chuang

University of California, San Francisco

L. Eugene Arnold

The Ohio State University

James J. McGough

University of California, Los Angeles

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NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre

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Columbia University

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Institut de Virologie

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Yorkshire Cancer Research

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Urology Foundation

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National Institute for Health Research

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A Needs Assessment of People in the Eastern Health and Social Services Board (Northern Ireland) with Intellectual Disability and Dementia

Journal of Learning Disabilities (2002)

Mark Davies Anne McGlade David Bickerstaff

This article details a study undertaken by the Eastern Health and Social Services Board (Northern Ireland) which aimed to identify the number of people with intellectual disability within this area who were diagnosed with or were thought to have dementia. The objectives of the study were to collate demographic details and to profile the needs of this group. Key workers were asked to provide this information and were invited to comment on gaps in existing service provision and on future needs. A number of findings emerged: diagnostic services were patchy; people with dementia were living in a range of residential settings; carers wished to care for their clients for as long as practically possible, but they required extra resources and training to do so; and some individuals with an intellectual disability were excluded from elderly services. A report was compiled incorporating 12 recommendations.

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Northern Ireland

Social care

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10.1177/146900470200600102

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Childhood Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Two-Year Prospective Follow-up of a Community Sample

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (1989)

Carol Zaremba Berg Judith L. Rapoport Agnes H. Whitaker Mark Davies Henrietta Leonard

Subclinical infection

10.1097/00004583-198907000-00010

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Adverse Life Events and Resilience

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (1998)

Quyên Q. Tiêt Héctor Bird Mark Davies Christina W. Hoven Patricia Cohen

Objective: Adverse life events are well-documented risk factors of psychopathology and psychological dysfunction in children and adolescents.Youth with good adjustment despite high levels of adverse life events are considered resilient.This study identifies factors that characterize resilience.Method: Household probability samples of youth aged 9 through 17 years at four sites were used.Main and interaction effects of 11 factors were examined to assess their impact on youth adjustment.Results: Children at risk because of higher levels of adverse life events exhibited a greater degree of resilience when they had a higher IQ, better family functioning, closer parental monitoring, more adults in the household, and higher educational aspiration.The interaction between maternal psychopathology and adversity was significant, and the interaction between IQ and adversity approached significance.Conclusion: Resilient youth received more guidance and supervision by their parents and lived in higher-functioning families.Other adults in the family probably complemented the parents in providing guidance and support to the youth and in enhancing youth adjustment.Higher educational aspirations might have provided high-risk youth with a sense of direction and hope.Although IQ had no impact in youth at low risk, youth at high risk who had a higher IQ might have coped better.

10.1097/00004583-199811000-00020

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Providing psychological services for people with diabetes

Practical Diabetes (2005)

Ashley Malone Martin Dempster Mark Davies

Abstract Previous research and service development guidelines have highlighted the importance of psychological issues in diabetes care, and both people with diabetes and diabetes professionals recognise the need for specialist psychological input. This article outlines the development of a service delivery model for psychological services in diabetes care, based on a patient needs assessment and the advice of diabetes professionals. This involved an assessment of the psychological needs of people with diabetes within an urban health trust in Northern Ireland, and the collation of the views of local diabetes professionals. Questionnaires to assess for depression, anxiety, binge eating behaviour and diabetes‐specific worries were completed by 300 people with diabetes. The participants were accessed through both primary and secondary care diabetes teams. As expected, a high level of psychological distress relative to population norms was illustrated by the patient needs assessment. Particularly high levels of binge eating behaviour were reported, and levels of distress were higher for community‐managed patients than for hospital‐managed patients. The diabetes professionals unanimously agreed that there is a need for specialist psychological input and contributed to the service delivery model which is outlined in this article. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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10.1002/pdi.830

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Response to Methylphenidate in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Manic Symptoms in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Titration Trial

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (2003)

Cathryn A. Galanter Gabrielle A. Carlson Peter S. Jensen Laurence L. Greenhill Mark Davies

Objective: Recent reports raise concern that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and some manic symptoms may worsen with stimulant treatment. This study examines the response to methylphenidate in such children. Methods: Data from children participating in the 1-month methylphenidate titration trial of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD were reanalyzed by dividing the sample into children with and without some manic symptoms. Two "mania proxies" were constructed using items from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) or the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Treatment response and side effects are compared between participants with and without proxies. Results: Thirty-two (11%) and 29 (10%) participants fulfilled criteria for the CBCL mania proxy and DISC mania proxy, respectively. Presence or absence of either proxy did not predict a greater or lesser response or side effects. Conclusion: Findings suggest that children with ADHD and manic symptoms respond robustly to methylphenidate during the first month of treatment and that these children are not more likely to have an adverse response to methylphenidate. Further research is needed to explore how such children will respond during long-term treatment. Clinicians should not a priori avoid stimulants in children with ADHD and some manic symptoms.

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Child Behavior Checklist

Stimulant

10.1089/104454603322163844

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Alienation and Connection: Suffering in a Global Age

Mark Davies Dion A. Forster Lisa M. Hess Theodore W. Jennings Joerg Rieger

Social alienation

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Truncated pathways from childhood to adulthood: Attrition in follow-up studies due to death.

Madelyn S. Gould David Shaffer Mark Davies

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Maternal Antisocial Behavior, Parenting Practices, and Behavior Problems in Boys at Risk for Antisocial Behavior

Journal of Child and Family Studies (2003)

Miriam K. Ehrensaft Gail A. Wasserman Lena Verdelli Steven Greenwald Laurie S. Miller

Conduct disorder

Depression

10.1023/a:1021302024583

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Informant-based determinants of symptom attenuation in structured child psychiatric interviews.

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (1999)

John Piacentini Margaret Roper Peter S. Jensen Chris Lucas Prudence W. Fisher

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Parent–Victim Agreement in Adolescent Suicide Research

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (1998)

Drew M. Velting David Shaffer Madelyn S. Gould M. Garfinkel Prudence W. Fisher

Objective The necessary absence of the victim's report in psychological autopsy studies is likely to introduce a systematic reporting bias. The authors investigated the nature and extent of this bias by examining agreement between accounts of symptomatology given by adolescents who made a serious suicide attempt and their parents. Method Fifty-two attempters younger than age 20 were matched individually on age, sex, and ethnicity to a sample of suicide completers in two previous investigations. A semistructured interview was used to assess symptoms for DSM-III disorders. Diagnoses were assigned using two distinct computer algorithms, based respectively on youth and parent informant reports. Kappa values were estimated for each diagnostic category and related symptoms. Results Highest rates of parent-youth agreement were found for substance abuse and disruptive disorders. Rates of conduct disorder (nonaggressive) and major depression were reported less frequently by parents relative to their children. At the symptom level, parents less frequently reported Gets drunk and Frequency of drinking. Conclusions Psychological autopsy studies of adolescent suicide are likely to underestimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in general and major depression and alcohol abuse in particular. These risk factors may be more predictive than previously thought.

Depression

Alcohol abuse

10.1097/00004583-199811000-00015

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