DOI:
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.