Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24536 In this Papers Podcast, Aga Gidziela discusses her JCPP paper ‘Explaining the influence of non-shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13729). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include: A definition of non-shared environment and examples of non-shared environmental factors. A definition of what is meant by the ‘missing NSE gap’. The implications of the finding that school environments do not have a major impact with a shared or non-shared environment when it comes to behavioural problem outcomes in adulthood, and that the strongest predictive processes are in fact genetic. How can we narrow the missing non-shared environment gap? The implications of the findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals, parents, and teachers. In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in on