{"id":5016,"date":"2024-12-03T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:13:16","slug":"anxiety-and-depression-across-adolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2024\/12\/03\/anxiety-and-depression-across-adolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety and depression across adolescence: insights from a longitudinal study of contemporary Australian youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Amid growing concerns about a youth &#8216;mental health crisis,&#8217; understanding of how common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, evolve across adolescence is crucial to inform contemporary responses. While cross-sectional studies provide valuable snapshots, few longitudinal studies have comprehensively tracked the course of these conditions during this critical developmental period.<\/p>\n<p>This seminar presented findings from the Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS), a Melbourne-based longitudinal cohort study. CATS has measured depressive and anxiety symptoms annually over eight waves, following participants from age 10 to 18 years. The presentation delved into the prevalence of clinically significant symptoms, their recurrence across adolescence, and the likelihood of recovery, offering novel insights into the persistence and variability of CMDs in young people. This presentation was followed by a panel discussion with Professor Susan Sawyer AM and Professor Nicola Reavley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions this event addressed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What insights can longitudinal studies provide in comparison to cross sectional \u2018snapshots\u2019 in time?<\/li>\n<li>Are adolescents\u2019 experiences of anxiety and depressive symptoms short-lived or more persistent?<\/li>\n<li>Does the data from Child to Adult Transition Study support concerns of a &#8216;youth mental health crisis&#8217;?<\/li>\n<li>What next steps are required to understand and respond better to concerns of a &#8216;youth mental health crisis&#8217;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Dr Ellie May Robson<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Ellie<\/strong> is an early-career post-doctoral researcher from the United Kingdom (UK) working on the Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS) within the Centre for Adolescent Health at Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute (MCRI). Ellie&#8217;s research focuses on life-course epidemiology, specifically adolescent mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<b>Date<\/b>: Thursday 5 December 2024<\/p>\n<p><b>Time:<\/b> 1:00 to 2:00 pm AEDT<\/p>\n<h3>Event recording<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anxiety and depression across adolescence: insights from a longitudinal study of contemporary Australian youth\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1036222885?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Advancing Adolescent Health in the Asia Pacific: A virtual community to share knowledge and support collaboration<\/h2>\n<p>Despite one in two of the world\u2019s adolescents living in the Asia-Pacific region, adolescent health is a relatively new field of endeavour in Australia as well as the region. It is a field that spans policy makers from multiple sectors, researchers from different disciplines, and practitioners working in health services, schools and communities and encompasses a multitude of health topics and concerns. Despite this, there are few opportunities to come together to share, showcase and build capacity to improve adolescent health and wellbeing in the region.<\/p>\n<p>This seminar series aims to provide opportunities for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, implementers, young advocates \u2013 indeed, anyone interested in the health and wellbeing of adolescents \u2013 to enhance their understanding of adolescent health and wellbeing, with a focus on research.<\/p>\n<p>This series is supported by the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/cre-in-global-adolescent-health\/\">Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Led by a team at the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/centre-for-adolescent-health\/\">Centre for Adolescent Health<\/a>, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute, it brings together leading Australian research groups including the University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of South Australia, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2024\/01\/15\/advancing-adolescent-health-in-the-asia-pacific-a-virtual-community-to-share-knowledge-and-support-collaboration\/\">Read more about the series here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4556 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1-400x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2024\/01\/new-SS-1-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing concerns about a youth &#8216;mental health crisis,&#8217; understanding of how common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, evolve across adolescence is crucial to inform contemporary responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6637,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}