Experts Warnings Over Child Assessment Tool
Forty world experts on child development and mental health have released a joint statement calling for caution when applying an...
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Oct 10, 20173 min read
Parenting Style Shaped by Economics
In lectures on child development I explore how parenting style is not a fixed quality within the parent. Research demonstrates that...
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Phil Harris
Oct 9, 20172 min read
Growing Up On Easy Street
In lectures I often examine research that suggests that social economic positions influences child development dramatically. A new study...
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Phil Harris
Sep 29, 20173 min read
Praise Children to the Hilt -If You Want Them to Feel Bad
In lectures I often challenge the idea that self-esteem issues are the root of all young peoples problems. How do children construct...
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Phil Harris
Sep 25, 20171 min read
Primary Care Child Safeguarding Forum 10th Annual Conference
It was a delight to speak at the Primary Care Child Safeguarding Conference last week. PCCSF is an independent professional organisation...
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Phil Harris
Sep 25, 20172 min read
1 in 4 Girls Depressed by the Age of 14
Lecturing on adolescent development, people are often surprised by the fact that 50 per cent of of mental health diagnosis are made by...
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Phil Harris
Sep 5, 20172 min read
ADHD: A Sleep Disorder?
Around 75% of children and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) also have sleep problems, but until now these have...
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Phil Harris
Aug 25, 20172 min read
Hard Edges: Mapping Severe and Multiple Disadvantage Report.
I am very interested in the life time studies of the impact of negative childhood experiences and how they shape the adult life. I have...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20172 min read
Mental Health Education in School Works
A growing body of evidence suggests that mental health education programmes can be very effective in reducing the prevalence of problems...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Menopause: What Made Us Human
In lectures on human development people are often surprised when I suggest that the menopause was what made us human. The vast majority...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Conduct Disorder: Gender Differences Identified
A recent study at Bath University of 200 teenagers has revealed interesting gender differences between teenage males and females with...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Invite to Speak at the Royal College of GPs
I have just been invited to speak at the Royal College of GPs 10th PCCSF conference in Birmingham.The theme is Safeguarding Adolescents...
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Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20171 min read
Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy: Risk of Addiction Revealed
A new study has found what might be the link between the increased risk of developing alcohol problems after exposure to alcohol in the...
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Phil Harris
Jul 11, 20171 min read
What is Right with Kids Growing Up Under Stress?
Studies of children growing in stressful environments always views them from a deficit lens. However, many of the behaviors that are...
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Phil Harris
Jun 11, 20172 min read
Gateway Theory Revisited
There is a great deal of confusion between "Stepping Stone Theory" and "Gateway Theory" in terms of understanding the evolution of drug...
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Phil Harris
Jun 7, 20171 min read
Schizophrenia: A Disease of the Immune System?
Recent developments in the area of immuno-psychiatry have begun to identify that prenatal viral infection may be responsible for the...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
Small Difference, Big Impact
A recent study found that the more days a child missed of pre-school created greater disparities in their educational attainment across...
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Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Is Attachment Theory Over-Rated?
There is always a great deal of discussion in my training and lectures on child and adolescent development regarding attachment theory. ...
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Phil Harris
Dec 6, 20161 min read
How Much Do Parents Matter?
In a new book out by Emeritus Professor Robert Le Vine and his Research Fellow wife Sarah, they examine parenting across different...
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