​SELECTION FROM KIDS COMPANY’S RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

1. Neurocognitive correlates of abuse and neglect: baseline neurocognitive profile, response to therapeutic intervention and the role of genotype (University College London/Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit)

2. Neurophysiological and genetic markers of childhood maltreatment (King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry)

3. Three year research fellowship in child and adolescent mental health and social policy/epigenetics research program (University of Cambridge, Department of Developmental Psychiatry)

4. A community-based concept study of neurocognitive mechanisms associated with behavioural change in children with conduct problems who are offered services by Kids Company (Anna Freud Centre)

5. Cognitive deficit among young offenders (University of Portsmouth)

6. Neurodevelopmental markers of antisocial behaviours – a pilot study (GOSH/Institute of Child Health)

7. Challenging ideas about disaffection: maximising policy and practice impact (South Bank University)

8. Building psychological resilience through bio-feedback psycho- education and coping skills training in a selected sample of socially and emotionally deprived adolescents in London (University of Bristol)

9. Resilience and Empathy in a sample of Kids Company’s vulnerable population of adolescents (Kids Company/Anna Freud Centre)

10. Mentalisation based integrative multimodel practice, now called AMBIT (Adolescent Mentalisation Based Integrative Therapy) (Anna Freud Centre)

11. Attachment and the inner world of Kids Company children (Kids Company/Anna Freud Centre)

12. Kids Company key working model analysis (Tavistock Clinic/University of East London)

13. Integrating neurobiology into the understanding management and prevention of antisocial behaviour an ethnography of policy and practice (London School of Economics)

14. Need Analysis on a sample of high-risk clients (ITsOK). Study includes supplementary information from an analysis of Dial Assessments, the PedsQL assessments and the generalized anxiety disorder scale for those over 18. (University College London)

15. Against the odds: a case study of developing community participation with vulnerable inner city children (Sussex University)

16. Evaluation of Kids Company’s ‘Legit Living’ programme (Centre for Social Work Research, University of East London and Tavistock Clinic)

17. ‘U-Design-it’ Ultra-large scale participatory design with social media tools: in collaboration with Kids Company (Lancaster University)

18. Using dynamic stimuli and eye movement techniques to develop an emotion training programme: can emotion recognition and empathy be enhanced in adolescents with conduct disorder? (Southampton University)

19. An exploration of food poverty and energy and nutrient deficiencies in London primary school children (University of Leeds)

CAMILA'S RECOMMENDED READING AND FURTHER RESEARCH:

• Hart, Heledd, and Katya Rubia. “Neuroimaging of child abuse: a critical review.” Frontiers in human neuroscience 6 (2012): 52.

• McCrory, Eamon, Stephane A. De Brito, and Essi Viding. “Research review: the neurobiology and genetics of maltreatment and adversity.” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51.10 (2010): 1079-1095.

• McCrory, Eamon, Stephane A. De Brito, and Essi Viding. “The impact of childhood maltreatment: a review of neurobiological and genetic factors.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 2 (2011): 48.

• Perry, Bruce D. “Incubated in terror: Neurodevelopmental factors in the “cycle of violence.”.” Children in a violent society 124 (1997): 149.

• Misselbrook, David. “What is it with kids these days?.” (2011): 392-393.

• “Instead of a punitive approach you need a community based, more collaborative, public health approach which is not imposed on people” – Duncan Bew, senior London trauma surgeon at King’s College Hospital, and one of the founders of Growing Against Violence, a project to reduce gang membership and tackle violence in London.

• Cecil, C.A.M, Viding, E, Barker, E.D, Guiney, J, and McCrory, E.J (2014), ‘Double disadvantage: The influence of childhood maltreatment and community violence exposure on adolescent mental health,’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(7), 839-848. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12213

• Pincham, Hannah L., et al. “Psychosocial Intervention Is Associated with Altered Emotion Processing: An Event-Related Potential Study in At-Risk Adolescents.” PloS one 11.1 (2016): e0147357.

•  Li, Fenfang, and Meripa T. Godinet. “The impact of repeated maltreatment on behavioral trajectories from early childhood to early adolescence.” Children and youth services review 36 (2014): 22-29.

• Pollak, Seth D. “Early adversity and mechanisms of plasticity: Integrating affective neuroscience with developmental approaches to psychopathology.” Development and psychopathology 17.03 (2005): 735-752.

• Inbrief: The Impact of Early Adversity On Children’s Development. Centre on the Developing Child, Harvard University

•  Lee, Vivien, and Peter NS Hoaken. “Cognition, emotion, and neurobiological development: Mediating the relation between maltreatment and aggression.” Child maltreatment 12.3 (2007): 281-298.

• Kinsella, Michael T., and Catherine Monk. “Impact of maternal stress, depression & anxiety on fetal neurobehavioral development.” Clinical obstetrics and gynecology 52.3 (2009): 425.

• Carpenter, Georgia L., and Ann M. Stacks. “Developmental effects of exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood: A review of the literature.” Children and Youth Services Review 31.8 (2009): 831-839.

• Dubow, Eric F., et al. “Exposure to conflict and violence across contexts: Relations to adjustment among Palestinian children.” Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 39.1 (2009): 103-116.

• Kellermann, Natan PF. “Epigenetic transmission of Holocaust trauma: can nightmares be inherited?.” The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences 50.1 (2013): 33.

• Pincham, Hannah L., et al. “Psychosocial Intervention Is Associated with Altered Emotion Processing: An Event-Related Potential Study in At-Risk Adolescents.” PloS one 11.1 (2016): e0147357.

• Kirsch, Peter, et al. “Oxytocin modulates neural circuitry for social cognition and fear in humans.” Journal of neuroscience 25.49 (2005): 11489-11493.

• Neumann, Inga D., et al. “Brain oxytocin inhibits the (re) activity of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis in male rats: involvement of hypothalamic and limbic brain regions.” Regulatory peptides 96.1 (2000): 31-38.

• Heinrichs, Markus, et al. “Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress.” Biological psychiatry 54.12 (2003): 1389-1398.

• Dannlowski, Udo, et al. “Disadvantage of social sensitivity: interaction of oxytocin receptor genotype and child maltreatment on brain structure.” Biological psychiatry 80.5 (2016): 398-405.

• Sabihi, Sara, et al. “Oxytocin in the prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex reduces anxiety-like behavior in female and male rats.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 45 (2014): 31-42.

• Diorio, Diane, Victor Viau, and Michael J. Meaney. “The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (cingulate gyrus) in the regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress.” Journal of Neuroscience 13.9 (1993): 3839-3847.

• Spear, Linda Patia. “Neurodevelopment during adolescence.” Neurodevelopmental mechanisms in psychopathology (2003): 62-83.

• Riem, Madelon ME, et al. “Oxytocin effects on complex brain networks are moderated by experiences of maternal love withdrawal.” European Neuropsychopharmacology 23.10 (2013): 1288-1295.

• Carter, C. Sue. “Neuroendocrine perspectives on social attachment and love.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 23.8 (1998): 779-818.

• Declerck, Carolyn H., Christophe Boone, and Toko Kiyonari. “Oxytocin and cooperation under conditions of uncertainty: the modulating role of incentives and social information.” Hormones and Behavior 57.3 (2010): 368-374.

• Ditzen, Beate, et al. “Intranasal oxytocin increases positive communication and reduces cortisol levels during couple conflict.” Biological psychiatry 65.9 (2009): 728-731.

• Fries, Pascal. “A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence.” Trends in cognitive sciences 9.10 (2005): 474-480.

• Domes, Gregor, et al. “Oxytocin attenuates amygdala responses to emotional faces regardless of valence.” Biological psychiatry 62.10 (2007): 1187-1190.

• Kubzansky, Laura D., et al. “A heartfelt response: oxytocin effects on response to social stress in men and women.” Biological psychology 90.1 (2012): 1-9.

• Nagasawa, Miho, et al. “Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds.” Science 348.6232 (2015): 333-336.

• Nagasawa, Miho, et al. “Dog’s gaze at its owner increases owner’s urinary oxytocin during social interaction.” Hormones and Behavior 55.3 (2009): 434-441.

• Buchheim, Anna, et al. “Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 34.9 (2009): 1417-1422.

• Baron‐Cohen, Simon, et al. “The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high‐functioning autism.” Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 42.2 (2001): 241-251.

• Domes, Gregor, et al. “Oxytocin improves “mind-reading” in humans.” Biological psychiatry 61.6 (2007): 731-733.

• Eckstein, Monika, et al. “Oxytocin facilitates the extinction of conditioned fear in humans.” Biological psychiatry 78.3 (2015): 194-202.