ACAMH Awards Results: Spotlight on Excellence in Research and Practice

ACAMH’s President Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Winner: Professor Tamsin Ford

Read the full press release here.

David Cottrell ‘Education of CAMH Professionals’

Nomination Criteria: Someone who has had a significant impact upon the education or training of child and adolescent mental health professionals. This is open to all disciplines, but education or training must relate to children’s mental health.

Winner: Dr. Karen Street

Highly Commended: Professor Amanda E. Guyer

Honorable Mentions: Dr. Mariana Pereira and Dr. Arnon Bentovim

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Arnon Bentovim, Child and Family Training UK, Professor Amanda E. Guyer, University of California, Davis, Dr. Mariana Pereira, Anna Freud Centre / University College London, Dr. Karen Street, ALSG: Advanced Life Support Group

Eric Taylor ‘Translational Research into Practice’

Nomination Criteria: An individual with a sustained contribution to translating research into practice over a number of years, whose work involves both research, and either clinical or educational involvement in practice. And/or a researcher or clinician who has published translational science (evidence base into practice) with evidence of impact on clinical service provision. This could involve the establishment of new interventions, or improvement of existing ones, with evidence of impact on clinical service provision.

Winner: Professor Tony Charman

Highly Commended: Dr. Heather Taussig

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Anne-Marie Burn, University of Cambridge, Professor Tony Charman, King’s College London, Dr. Erik Pettersson, Karolinska Institutet, Dr. Heather Taussig, University of Denver, Kempe Center, & University of Colorado School of Medicine, Dr. Mark D. Weist, University of South Carolina

Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award

Nomination Criteria: Please note that this award cannot be self-nominated. Open to any person who has made a significant scientific contribution to child and adolescent mental health literature, within 10 years of their first peer reviewed journal publication.

Winner: Dr. Divyangana Rakesh

Highly Commended: Dr. David Bürgin

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Alessio Bellato, University of Southampton, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Dr. David Bürgin, University Psychiatric Hospitals Basel, Dr. Divyangana Rakesh, King’s College London, Dr. Blandine French, University of Nottingham

Digital Intervention

Nomination Criteria: A clinician who has put evidence base into practice within the information/data/IT/digital fields of child and adolescent mental health. This could be the use of information or technologies in the delivery of care or service design etc.

Winner: Professor Cathy Creswell

Highly Commended: Professor Sven Bölte

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Melissa Aji, Black Dog Institute, Professor Sven Bölte, KIND, Karolinska Institutet, Professor Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford, Dr. Brynjar Halldorsson, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland / University of Oxford, Dr. Jane McGrath, ADMiRE ADHD Pathway HSE Linn Dara Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Trinity College Dublin

Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year

Nomination Criteria: For candidates currently in a clinical training working towards a professional qualification (rather than academic qualification) in mental health (e.g. medical students, trainee psychiatrists, trainee psychologists, trainee occupational therapists, trainee speech and language therapists etc.)

Winner: Dr. Clara Faria

Highly Commended: Ms. Rachel Francois-Walcott

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Clara Faria, University of Cambridge, Ms. Rachel Francois-Walcott, University of Surrey, Dr. Benjamin Geers, University of Exeter, Devon Partnership Trust

Masters Student of the Year

Nomination Criteria: For candidates currently enrolled in an MsC/MA/Mphil course of study as of the date of announcement of invitation for nominations. (This category can be self-nominated)

Winner: Ms. Sarah Daniels

Highly Commended: Ms. Abby Lomas

Shortlist nominees: Ms. Sarah Daniels, University of Cambridge, Mrs. Nora Evbaguehita Igbinovia, Edge Hill University, Ms. Abby Lomas, University of Birmingham and Bee N Spired

PhD Student of the Year

Nomination Criteria: For candidates enrolled in a PhD programme as of the date of announcement of invitation for nominations. (This category can be self-nominated)

Winner: Ms. Xinhe Zhang

Highly Commended: Ms. Eugenia Giampetruzzi

Shortlist nominees: Mr. Brian Ching, King’s College London, Ms. Eugenia Giampetruzzi, Stanford University, Ms. Constantina Psyllou, Accare Child Study Center, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, Ms. Lottie Shipp, University of Oxford, Ms. Xinhe Zhang, University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Researcher of the Year

Nomination Criteria: For candidates awarded a PhD in the previous 3 years, but not yet in a tenured academic post.

Winner: Dr. Elaine Clarke

Highly Commended: Dr. An-Katrien Hulsbosch and Dr. Laura Bechtiger

Shortlist nominees: Dr. Laura Bechtiger, Interdisciplinary Center for Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Dr. Chloe Chessell, University of Oxford, Dr. Elaine Clarke, Rutgers University, Dr. An-Katrien Hulsbosch, Human Developmental Neurobiology unit, OIST Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan, Dr. Emma Caitlin Sullivan, University of Melbourne

Lionel Hersov Memorial Award

Nomination Criteria: A practice team that has demonstrated the use of evidence base (research, audit or service evaluation) into clinical practice. Or a team that has evaluated the outcome or measures either the clinical impact or demonstrated quality improvement (can be efficiencies of time, money or reduced ‘waste’). The nominations will be accepted from researchers, investigators, clinicians, and educationalists.

Winner: AnDY Research Clinics, University of Oxford

Highly Commended: CAMHS ACUITY, Leicestershire Partnership Trust

Shortlist nominees: AnDY Research Clinics, University of Oxford, CAMHS ACUITY, Leicestershire Partnership Trust, NIHR MindTech HealthTech Research Centre, University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Tabla Psychology, Tabla Psychology, Therapeutic Hub, Therapeutic Hub, London Borough of Sutton

Innovative Research, Training or Practice in Lower-Middle Income Countries

Nomination Criteria: Team based in a country classified by the World Bank as LMICs* in the preceding year, and whose work involve research, clinical or educational activities in that country. The work shows innovation in research, training, or practice/service delivery in child and adolescent mental health.

Winner: Magic Bus India Foundation – Adolescent Programmes

Highly Commended: Youth Association for Development (YAD) 

Shortlist nominees: Aanandit Hridaya, Aanandit Hridaya, Magic Bus India Foundation – Adolescent Programmes, Magic Bus India Foundation, Positive Pathways Initiatives, Positive Pathways Initiatives, Youth Association for Development (YAD) Management, Staff, project staff, group and team, Youth Association for Development (YAD) Pakistan

*Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Micronesia, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) Best Paper Award

Nomination Criteria: The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry best paper award is chosen by the editors of the JCPP. Papers are eligible if they have been published in the journal in 2024. The winning and shortlisted original articles are chosen based on a range of criteria including scope, relevance and study design.

Winner: (Original Article) The clinical and cost effectiveness of a STAndardised DIagnostic Assessment for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties: the STADIA multi-centre randomised controlled trial, (Vol. 66, Iss. 6), Kapil Sayal, Laura Wyatt, Christopher Partlett, Colleen Ewart, Anupam Bhardwaj, Bernadka Dubicka, Tamsin Marshall, Julia Gledhill, Alexandra Lang, Kirsty Sprange, Louise Thomson, Sebastian Moody, Grace Holt, Helen Bould, Clare Upton, Matthew Keane, Edward Cox, Marilyn James, Alan Montgomery

Highly Commended: (Original Article) Toward a consensus on dyslexia: findings from a Delphi study, (Vol. 66, Iss. 7), Julia M. Carroll, Caroline Holden, Philip Kirby, Paul A. Thompson, Margaret J. Snowling, the Dyslexia Delphi Panel

Shortlist nominees:

• (Original Article) Emotional burden in school as a source of mental health problems associated with ADHD and/or autism: Development and validation of a new co-produced self-report measure, (Vol. 66, Iss. 10), Steve Lukito, Susie Chandler, Myrofora Kakoulidou, Kirsty Griffiths, Anna Wyatt, Eloise Funnell, Georgia Pavlopoulou, Sylvan Baker, Daniel Stahl, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, on behalf of the RE-STAR team
• (Original Article) Exploring mechanisms behind the increasing gender gap in adolescent psychological symptoms, 2002–2022: the role of national-level gender equality, (Vol. 66, Iss. 5), Margreet E. de Looze, Alina Cosma, Frank J. Elgar, Karen Schrijvers, Jo Inchley, Sophie D. Walsh, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens
• (Original Article) Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort, (Vol. 66, Iss. 2), Zeynep Nas, Moritz Herle, Alice R. Kininmonth, Andrea D. Smith, Rachel Bryant-Waugh, Alison Fildes, Clare H. Llewellyn
• (Original Article)Toward a consensus on dyslexia: findings from a Delphi study, (Vol. 66, Iss. 7), Julia M. Carroll, Caroline Holden, Philip Kirby, Paul A. Thompson, Margaret J. Snowling, the Dyslexia Delphi Panel
• (Original Article) The clinical and cost effectiveness of a STAndardised DIagnostic Assessment for children and adolescents with emotional difficulties: the STADIA multi-centre randomised controlled trial, (Vol. 66, Iss. 6), Kapil Sayal, Laura Wyatt, Christopher Partlett, Colleen Ewart, Anupam Bhardwaj, Bernadka Dubicka, Tamsin Marshall, Julia Gledhill, Alexandra Lang, Kirsty Sprange, Louise Thomson, Sebastian Moody, Grace Holt, Helen Bould, Clare Upton, Matthew Keane, Edward Cox, Marilyn James, Alan Montgomery

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Journal Best Paper Award

Nomination Criteria: The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal best paper award is chosen by the editors of the CAMH journal. Papers are eligible if they have been published in the journal in 2024. The winning and shortlisted original articles are chosen based on a range of criteria including scope, relevance and study design.

Winner: (Review Article) Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions, (Vol. 30, Iss. 3), Carolina Guzman-Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes

Highly Commended: (Original Article) The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health, (Vol. 30, Iss. 2), Alexis Brieant, Keith B. Burt

Shortlist nominees:

• (Review Article) How can nature connectedness and behaviours for learning be deliberately developed in children, adolescents and young adults? A systematic literature review, (Vol. 30, Iss. 2), Nicole M. Harris, Brettany Hartwell, Louisa Thomas, Marcus Grace
• (Original Article) Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States, (Vol. 30, Iss. 2), Shannon Shaughnessy, Daniel Messinger, Spencer C. Evans
• (Original Article)The protective role of community cohesion across rural and urban contexts: implications for youth mental health, (Vol. 30, Iss. 2), Alexis Brieant, Keith B. Burt
• (Review Article) Review: Efficacy of preventative interventions for children and adolescents at clinical high risk of psychosis – a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention studies, (Vol. 30, Iss. 1), Grace Frearson, Javier de Otazu Olivares, Ana Catalan, Claudia Aymerich, Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo
• (Review Article)Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions, (Vol. 30, Iss. 3),Carolina Guzman-Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes

JCPP Advances Best Paper Award

Nomination Criteria: The JCPP Advances best paper award is chosen by the editors of the JCPP Advances. Papers are eligible if they have been published in the journal in 2024. The winning and shortlisted original articles are chosen based on a range of criteria including scope, relevance and study design.

Winner: (Original Article) Social anxiety symptoms and their relationship with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A prospective study, (Vol. 5, Iss. 1), Kenny Chiu, Argyris Stringaris, Eleanor Leigh

Highly Commended: (Original Article) Trajectories of mental health across the primary to secondary school transition, (Vol. 5, Iss. 1), Caitlyn Donaldson, Jemma Hawkins, Frances Rice, Graham Moore

Shortlist nominees:

• (Original Article) Beyond the income-achievement gap: The role of individual, family, and environmental factors in cognitive resilience among low-income youth, (Vol. 5, Iss. 3), Divyangana Rakesh, Ekaterina Sadikova, Katie A. McLaughlin
• (Original Article) Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study, (Vol. 5, Iss. 1), Dimitris I. Tsomokos, Elizabeth Halstead, Eirini Flouri
• (Original Article) Social anxiety symptoms and their relationship with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A prospective study, (Vol. 5, Iss. 1), Kenny Chiu, Argyris Stringaris, Eleanor Leigh
• (Original Article) The process of co-design for a new anxiety intervention for autistic children, (Vol. 5, Iss. 2), Tasha Cullingham, Una Rennard, Cathy Creswell, Damian Milton, Karen Leneh Buckle, Lucie Godber, Kate Gordon, Michael Larkin, Jonathan Green
• (Original Article) Trajectories of mental health across the primary to secondary school transition, (Vol. 5, Iss. 1), Caitlyn Donaldson, Jemma Hawkins, Frances Rice, Graham Moore

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