ACAMH Awards 2025

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18:30 - 20:30 UK, 19:30 - 21:30 CET,
14:30 - 16:30 EST, 05:30 - 7:30 AEDT

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Join us for the ACAMH Awards 2025 Ceremony.

It is completely free to attend and open to Members and Non-members alike. Simply register direct on Zoom. After registering, you’ll receive your unique joining link by email. As this is a webinar, attendees will be muted and cameras will be off by default.

Congratulations to all nominees for making it on the short list. To be nominated for an ACAMH Award is a prestigious recognition of those who are at the forefront of the advancement of child and adolescent mental health research and practice.

Programme

The programme for this event is currently being finalised. This will be updated as soon as possible.

Shortlist

David Cottrell ‘Education of CAMH Professionals’ Award

  • Dr. Bettina Hohnen, Private practice and UCL
  • Mr. Kenneth Nathan, Interventions Plus
  • Dr. Kiran Nijabat, Family Wellness Practice
  • Dr. Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Columbia University
  • Ms. Angela Taylor, Supporting Community Together

Digital Innovation Award for Research on Digital Impact

  • Bach Le, High Schooler Tells High Schoolers
  • The Co-CAT Study Team, University of Oxford
  • Professor Harriet Over, University of York
  • Dr. Gabriela Pavarini, University of Oxford
  • Professor Kapil Sayal, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham

Digital Innovation Award for Digital Intervention

  • Mr. John Campbell-O’Brien, ANP ADHD Pathway, HSE CAMHS, Integrated Health Areas of Dublin North County and Dublin North City and West
  • Dr. Eleanor Leigh, University of Oxford
  • Mrs. Helen McGlinchey, Northpoint
  • Professor John Weisz, Harvard Lab for Youth Mental Health

Eric Taylor ‘Translational Research Into Practice’ Award

  • Dr. Anna Basu, Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Professor Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford
  • Professor David Daley, Nottingham Trent University
  • Dr. Hanni Flaherty, Yeshiva University & Hanni Flaherty, LCSW PC
  • Professor Charles Hulme, Oxford Brookes University

Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award

  • Dr. Josefien Breedvelt, King’s College London
  • Dr. Chloe Chessell, University of Oxford
  • Mr. Charles Ganaprakasam, Ministry of Education
  • Dr. Anna Gui, University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Dr. Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr. Gonzalo Salazar De Pablo, King’s College London
  • Dr. Xinxin Zhu, University of Edinburgh

Postgraduate Research Trainee of the Year Award

  • Dr. Amelia Austin, University of Calgary
  • Dr. Zarah Eve, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr. Nina Higson-Sweeney, University of Bath / University of Oxford
  • Dr. Miriam Martini, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
  • Dr. Nora Trompeter, UCL

Clinical Trainee of the Year Award

  • Mr. Harry Barker, University of Cambridge
  • Ms. Lauren Hitchcock, ChARM Team, University of Cambridge
  • Mr. Sangwoo Richard Jung, King’s College London
  • Ms. Holly Platt, ChARM Team, University of Cambridge

Lionel Hersov Memorial Award

  • Little Warriors, Be Brave Ranch, Canada
  • Plymouth Multi-Agency Ecotherapy Collective, Plymouth City Council
  • RE-STAR Academic Researchers (Ars) and its Youth Researcher Panel (Y-RP), Kings, UCL, Anna Freud and Central
  • Young People’s Mental Health Research Centre, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Educational Psychology Service, States of Guernsey

Innovative Research, Training or Practice in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) Award

  • Mental Wellbeing and Sports (MeWeSports), Sangath, India
  • Nambikai Nilayam, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College Vellore India
  • Ndinewe Foundation, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists and DilKiBaat
  • The School Initiative for Mental Health Advocacy (SIMHA), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  • The Social Smarts Team, DevHub Center for Intervention, Philippines
  • RCPsych & GCPS CAP Module Team, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Glasgow and Ghana

Best Paper Award for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal

  • Review Article ‘Barriers and facilitators of implementation of evidence-based interventions in children and young people’s mental health care – a systematic review’ (Vol. 29, Iss. 3) Araminta Peters-Corbett, Sheryl Parke, Holly Bear, Timothy Clarke
  • Original Article ‘Breaking the Silence: An Epidemiological Report on Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Mental Health and Suicide (1999–2021)’ (Vol. 29, Iss. 2) Miles P. Reyes, Ivy Song, Apurva Bhatt
  • Original Article ‘Childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication’ (Vol. 29, Iss. 2) Anna Pearce, Paul Henery, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Ruth Dundas, Alastair H. Leyland, Dasha Nicholls, Russell M. Viner, Lynda Fenton, Steven Hope
  • Original Article ‘Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry’ (Vol. 29, Iss. 4) Klara Czernin, Anselm Bründlmayer, Josef S. Baumgartner, Paul L. Plener
  • Original Article ‘The role of adolescent social inclusion in educational attainment among vulnerable youth’ (Vol. 29, Iss. 2) Heidi M. Renner, Bosco Rowland, Delyse Hutchinson, John W. Toumbourou

Best Paper Award for Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

  • Original Article ‘Effects of engaging fathers and bundling parenting and nutrition interventions on early child development and maternal and paternal parenting in Mara, Tanzania: a factorial cluster-randomized controlled trial”, (Vol. 65, Iss. 5) Joshua Jeong, Marilyn N. Ahun, Nilupa S. Gunaratna, Ramya Ambikapathi, Frank Mapendo, Lauren Galvin, Mary Pat Kieffer, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Dominic Mosha, Savannah Froese O’Malley, Cristiana K. Verissimo, George PrayGod, Aisha K. Yousafzai
  • Original Article ‘Social connectedness and adolescent suicide risk’, (Vol. 65, Iss. 6), Alejandra Arango, David Brent, Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, Bradley J. Barney, Anthony Spirito, Megan M. Mroczkowski, Rohit Shenoi, Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, T. Charles Casper, Cheryl King, in collaboration with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)
  • Original Article ‘Socioeconomic disadvantage and high-effort coping in childhood: evidence of skin-deep resilience’, (Vol. 65, Iss. 3) Katherine B. Ehrlich, Sarah M. Lyle, Kelsey L. Corallo, Julie M. Brisson, Elizabeth R. Wiggins, Tianyi Yu, Edith Chen, Gregory E. Miller, Gene H. Brody
  • Original Article ‘Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Birth Cohort Study’ (Vol. 65, Iss. 2) Isabella Badini, Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Daniel L. Wechsler, Torkild H. Lyngstad, Christopher Rayner, Espen M. Eilertsen, Helena M.S. Zavos, Eivind Ystrom, Tom A. McAdams
  • Original Article ‘Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic adolescents’, (Vol. 65, Iss. 3) Jiedi Lei, Eleanor Leigh, Tony Charman, Ailsa Russell, Matthew J. Hollocks

Best Paper Award for JCPP Advances

  • Original Article ‘A transdiagnostic approach to neurodiversity in a representative population sample: The N+ 4 model’ (Vol. 4 Iss. 2) Ian A. Apperly, Robert Lee, Sanne W. van der Kleij, Rory T. Devine
  • Original Article ‘Interplay of early negative life events, development of orbitofrontal cortical thickness and depression in young adulthood’ (Vol. 4 Iss. 1) Lea L. Backhausen, Jonas Granzow, Juliane H. Fröhner, Eric Artiges, Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot, Hervé Lemaître, Fabio Sticca, Tobias Banaschewski, Sylvane Desrivières, Antoine Grigis, Andreas Heinz, Rüdiger Brühl, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Sarah Hohmann, Lauren Robinson, Henrik Walter, Jeanne Winterer, Gunter Schumann, Jean-Luc Martinot, Michael N. Smolka, Nora C. Vetter, the IMAGEN Consortium
  • Original Article ‘Moderators and predictors of treatment outcome following adjunctive internet-delivered emotion regulation therapy relative to treatment as usual alone for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury disorder: Randomized controlled trial’ (Vol. 4 Iss. 3) Olivia Ojala, Hugo Hesser, Kim L. Gratz, Matthew T. Tull, Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf, Hanna Sahlin, Brjánn Ljótsson, Clara Hellner, Johan Bjureberg
  • Original Article ‘Risk rates and profiles at intake in child and adolescent mental health services: A cohort and latent class analyses of 21,688 young people in South London’ (Vol. 4 Iss. 3) Barry Coughlan, Matt Woolgar, Rick Hood, Dustin Hutchinson, Ella Denford, Amy Hillier, Keith Clements, Teresa Geraghty, Ava Berry, Paul Bywaters, Andy Bilson, Jack Smith, Taliah Drayak, David Graham, Francesca Crozier-Roche, Robbie Duschinsky
  • Original Article ‘Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents’ (Vol. 4 Iss. 3) Pauline Goger, Rachel J. Nam, Nathan Lowry, Kerri-Anne Bell, Neha Parvez, Olivia H. Pollak, Donald J. Robinaugh, Daniel L. Schacter, Christine B. Cha

It is completely free to attend and open to Members and Non-members alike. Simply register direct on Zoom. After registering, you’ll receive your unique joining link by email. As this is a webinar, attendees will be muted and cameras will be off by default.