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Updates on digital mental health interventions for children and young people: systematic overview of reviews. (2025)
Journal Article

Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) are increasingly recommended for children and young people (CYP) as a promising way to prevent and treat mental health problems. Here, we summarised and consolidated findings from existing systematic review... Read More about Updates on digital mental health interventions for children and young people: systematic overview of reviews..

A realist evaluation of expert practices in education and care for children with special educational needs and disability (2024)
Thesis

Background and Purpose
There is a dearth of research into effective expert practices in the education and care of children and young people with special educational needs and disability, particularly regarding outcomes from interventions and the fac... Read More about A realist evaluation of expert practices in education and care for children with special educational needs and disability.

Understanding the Developmental Impact of Domestic Violence and Adverse Experiences in Childhood across the Life-Course (2023)
Book Chapter
Foster, C., & Gardner, L. (2023). Understanding the Developmental Impact of Domestic Violence and Adverse Experiences in Childhood across the Life-Course. In J. Roddy (Ed.), Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse (117-132). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253266-9

This chapter explores the impacts of experiencing and bearing witness to domestic abuse in childhood. A developmental perspective is used to support the reader to understand how growing up in households where relationships are characterised by coerci... Read More about Understanding the Developmental Impact of Domestic Violence and Adverse Experiences in Childhood across the Life-Course.

Mental health in early life (2021)
Book Chapter
Foster, C., & Ayodeji, E. (2021). Mental health in early life. In A. Chadwick, & N. Murphy (Eds.), Mental Health, A non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care. Lantern Publishing

After reading this chapter you will be able to:
Understand the relationship between mental health problems and child development

Describe the legal framework that guides working with children and young people who have mental health needs

Be... Read More about Mental health in early life.

Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response (2021)
Book Chapter
Foster, C. (2021). Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response. In A. Glasper, J. Richardson, & D. Randall (Eds.), A Textbook of Children and Young People's Nursing. 3rd Edition. Elsevier

The aim of this chapter is to explore the issues of mental health in relation to childhood and adolescent developmental tasks and the impact of long-term conditions. The assumption is made that nursing is primarily an interpersonal activity and that... Read More about Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response.

Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental health needs in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursing identity, task and intervention (2020)
Thesis
identity, task and intervention. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background: Adolescent psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) play a significant role in child and adolescent mental health care pathways, not just in the UK but across Europe. Prior to the papers included in this thesis, there was no primary resear... Read More about Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental health needs in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursing identity, task and intervention.

Investigating the impact of a psychoanalytic nursing development group within an adolescent psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) (2020)
Journal Article

Objective
To evaluate the impact of an adapted psychoanalytic work discussion group for mental health nurses working in adolescent PICU.

Background
There is no prior research investigating interventions that effectively support and enable adoles... Read More about Investigating the impact of a psychoanalytic nursing development group within an adolescent psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU).