This learning series includes:
- 34 mins of on-demand video
- Access on desktop, tablet and mobile
This learning series explores how academic writing and publishing unfold in practice within child and adolescent mental health. It examines how research ideas are generated, developed, and translated into high-quality papers, while offering practical insights into structuring manuscripts, maintaining clarity, and navigating common challenges such as time constraints and writer’s block.
It also highlights the role of collaboration, professional dialogue, and real-world experience in shaping meaningful research. Overall, the series provides grounded guidance to support more effective, sustainable writing practices and stronger engagement with the publication process.
In this video from the Writing and Publishing: Reflections from JCPP Advances Editors series, Professor Eivind Ystrøm discusses how unstructured thinking time can lead to creative scientific insights. He reflects on using dialectic reasoning and narrative techniques drawn from film to engage readers and shape research arguments. Drawing on personal habits and storytelling, he shares how self-imposed constraints can support productivity and encourages early-career researchers to view the review process as a constructive dialogue.
1. Recognise how unstructured time and everyday routines can foster research creativity.
2. Understand how dialectic reasoning and narrative techniques can be used to engage readers.
3. Reframe the peer review process as a dialogue with editors and reviewers.
Learning series: Writing and Publishing: Reflections from JCPP Advances Editors
Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo