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Matt Kempen
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Poster submissions for Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture and Conference
We are accepting poster submissions for the upcoming Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture and Conference to be held over two days on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 June 2018. There is a prize of £100 and ACAMH Digital Memberships for the winning poster.
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Refugee Children and Mental Health Masterclass with an inter-agency focus
Refugee Children and Mental Health Masterclass on Thursday 17 May, delivered by Professor Panos Vostanis, University of Leicester, one of the country’s leading scholars on the topic of child refugee mental health.
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Free Research Day on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) Southern Branch are staging a free research conference on Wednesday 18 April. The day-long event will see a series of experts presenting the latest research conducted in CAMHS in the Southern region, as well as nationally.
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Does adolescent peer relationship impact on adult mental health?
Dr Lucy Bowes will talk about ‘Adolescent peer relationships and mental health: an epidemiological perspective’ at the Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference
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‘There is no other organisation like this in Europe’
We provide cutting-edge research into mental health issues, and if you are a teacher, or teaching assistant, this is your chance to become a member, completely FREE!
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Mental Health and Obesity: It’s everybody’s role
By Melissa Little. Melissa is a Paediatric Dietitian specialising in childhood weight management. She runs a social enterprise called Foodtalk.
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Headlines about children’s mental health can make dispiriting reading for school leaders
The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust was set up in 1997 in memory of Charlie Waller, a young man who took his own life whilst suffering from depression.
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Help the parents, help the child: Developing support for parents of burn-injured children
Whilst many burns are minor and treated by front line NHS services, approximately 500 children under the age of 16 are admitted to hospital for specialist care every year in the UK.
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Music therapy: helping children and young people to access their education
Music therapy is a psychological therapy that uses the medium of music to achieve non-musical aims, such as encouraging self-expression where verbal skills are limited due to a physical or learning disability, or when clients find verbal therapy too direct or challenging.
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Defining the familiar: the birth of Avoidant or Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh has seen many changes in the 30 years she has spent helping children and adolescents overcome their eating disorders. Among these changes was the 2013 inclusion of a new disorder in the psychiatrists’ bible – the DSM.
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