Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18654 In this podcast, we talk to Professor Mark Tomlinson of the Department of Global Health Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper, ‘First 1,000 days: enough for mothers but not for children? Long-term outcomes of an early intervention on maternal depressed mood and child cognitive development: follow-up of a randomised controlled trial’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13482). Mark is the lead author of this paper and sets the scene by providing insight into what prompted his interest in both young people’s mental health and, in particular, the impact of maternal depression on infant and child development. Mark talks us through what his paper looks at, why he decided to research this area, highlights the methodology used in the paper, and shares his findings. Mark then provides further insight into the finding that, although the paper describes how caregivers who received a home visiting