Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
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Dr Lucy Foulkes
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A fantastic review by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social et al. Highlights the difficulty of properly assessing these questions and the role of potential nocebo and expectation effects, providing an interesting link to the work we do @sfb.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Just reading Coming of Age by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and finding it fascinating. Curious to know if other #EduSky people in secondary or other parents of teenagers have read it?
Many more insights in the paper - do let us know your thoughts
As always, more research to be done on this topic but it's great to add this study asking young people what they think about self-diagnosis, rather than just making assumptions about them
congrats to Nina on a brilliant piece of work 🌟
The main takeaway here is that these 13- to 17-year olds had very nuanced, thoughtful attitudes towards self diagnosis. They understood why people their age did it, but they were cautious and somewhat sceptical, just like adults are
Even though teens are the age group most often accused of (inaccurate) self diagnosis, they are also simultaneously observers of this phenomenon, and their observations align with those of adults
e.g. peers that were deemed to self diagnosed too quickly or ‘for attention’ were assumed to have inaccurately self diagnosed and were criticised. Those who spent more time figuring out what diagnosis they might have, and who were a bit more quiet about it, were considered to be more authentic
As with adults, our interviewees considered that some versions of self diagnosis were acceptable and some weren’t. There were a series of shared rules that helped each of them determine which self diagnoses were worthy of belief, respect and sympathy, and which weren't
When doctors do not care - new essay by me in @thelancet.com, describing the apathy and disinterest I experienced during 20 years of undiagnosed chronic symptoms
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
if you can't access but want to read - please do email me for a PDF
When doctors do not care - new essay by me in @thelancet.com, describing the apathy and disinterest I experienced during 20 years of undiagnosed chronic symptoms
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
if you can't access but want to read - please do email me for a PDF
🌟 NEW PRE-PRINT! 🌟
“It seems that everyone has got something”: A qualitative study of adolescents’ attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems
from me and @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mental health awareness campaigns aim to decrease stigma, increase help-seeking and improve mental health literacy. However, they might also negatively impact how individuals interpret, label and resp...
