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On diagnosis and treatment decisions for care-experienced young people, with Rosie McGuire

October 24, 2022 • SalvesenResearch • Season 4 • Episode 2

Rosie is a post-doctoral researcher at UCL specialising in the mental health of care-experienced young people. During this podcast she chats to Lou about a piece of work looking at potential biases mental health practitioners may have in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health difficulties for young people in care, as well as a connected post-doc project, which is an active implementation trial investigating the facilitators and barriers to using trauma-focused CBT with care-experienced young people.

TW: for this episode, as we discuss PTSD in care experienced children and trauma-focused therapies.

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You can follow Rosie on Twitter @rosie_mcguire to find out more about her research, and the progress of the active implementation trial.

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The paper discussed in this podcast is:

McGuire, R., Halligan, S. L., Meiser-Stedman, R., Durbin, L., & Hiller, R. M. (2022). Differences in the diagnosis and treatment decisions for children in care compared to their peers: An experimental study on post-traumatic stress disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(4), 1075-1088.