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Transforming CAMHS from the ground up
A report, issued this week, ‘Co-owners of Change: CAMHS Transformation Clinical Champions’, provides insights to an important consultation with clinicians, highlighting the desire for clinical engagement.
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Q&A with Dr Max Davie, Consultant Paediatrician
Interview with Dr Max Davie, Consultant Paediatrician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust & ACAMH Board Member.
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Welsh branch puts on dyslexia day with academic heavyweights
Conference review Dyslexia: From assessment to intervention This September saw ACAMH’s Wales branch host a one day conference on dyslexia in Cardiff. Over sixty delegates made the trip to the city’s All Nations’ Centre to listen to talks from leading researchers and practitioners. The day was opened with a warm welcome from Dr Owen Barry, […]
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Practicing what we preach
Today is World Mental Health Day, with this year’s theme being mental health in the workplace. I believe the most valuable asset any organisation has are its staff, and their wellbeing should be paramount to every CEO.
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What is happening to me?
That is what I always asked myself as a 12-year-old student while facing my first few years at secondary school. A younger Jacob was lost, struggling so much academically and constantly feeling like a failure. I felt like no matter how hard I tried, I was and will never ever be good enough.
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Mental health in schools
“Sometimes you feel like a volcano erupting,” one eight-year-old boy told us, “but if you come to Place2Be, you can cool down.”
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The pariah of dyslexia
Sometimes, academia calls for a thick skin, particularly if you’re notorious for denouncing an entire area of research.
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Dyslexia and developmental language disorder: same or different?
Maggie Snowling looks at how we understand the definition, development and relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD).
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The Parent Blame Game
Seventy years ago Leo Kanner published his seminal paper describing autism. In that paper he also coined the term “refrigerator mother” apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices.
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I was horribly misinformed about dyslexia
According to the British Dyslexia Association, up to 10% of people in the UK show some signs of the condition.
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