Catherine Jacobs

TL;DR: The CECA.Q shows satisfactory reliability and validity as a self-report measure for adverse childhood experience and when indices were compiled to reflect peak severity of each type of adversity across perpetrator, odds-ratios increased.

TL;DR: Fearful and Angry-dismissive styles were shown to partially mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression or anxiety, and insecure attachment styles predicted both major depression and case anxiety in follow-up.

TL;DR: Maternal poor psychosocial functioning needs to be identified as a factor requiring intervention in order to stem escalation of risk across generations in relation to psychossocial models of risk transmission for disorder.

TL;DR: The VASQ is a brief self-report measure that distinguishes individuals with attachment styles vulnerable for depressive disorder and its relationship to poor support and major depression is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined multi-agency working from the perspective of social workers within an early-intervention family support team and found that the benefits of multi-agent working involved enhanced inter-agency respect and communication, greater understanding of child protection thresholds among partner agencies and fast-track referrals.