‘Breaking CAMHS Barriers: The Impact of Domestic Violence’ will be from by Dr. Claire Powell, and Dr. Ruth Blackburn, both Senior Research Fellows at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, and Dr. Ania Zylbersztejn population data scientist in the UCL Child Health Informatics Group and the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre Applied Child Health Informatics Theme.
This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.
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About the session
Dr. Ruth Blackburn – Hospital admissions among adolescents in England with experience of local authority care or special educational needs
This talk investigates hospital admission patterns among adolescents with special educational needs and/or care experience (child looked after; CLA). Using data from the ECHILD database, the study analyzed 2.8 million pupils in England who started secondary school between 2007/8 and 2011/12, tracking planned and unplanned hospital admissions until age 18-23. Findings revealed that CLA groups, especially girls with an Education and Health Care Plan, had the highest unplanned admission rates, with nearly half being mental health-related. Conversely, planned care use was notably low for these groups. The results highlight the need for improved preventative care to address unmet health needs.
Learning outcomes
1. To understand that adolescence is both a time of significant biopsychosocial change and a period in which multi transitions between services occur, including shifts in education (e.g. primary to secondary school, school leaving) and ageing out of paediatric and children’s social care services, which can exacerbate health inequalities.
2. To recognise that there is significant overlap in groups of children and young people who are care-experienced and/or have additional educational needs, but that these groups are highly heterogenous.
3. To understand that young people who are care-experienced and/or have additional educational needs are admitted to hospital more frequently than their peers (with no education or social care provision), and that a significant proportion of these unplanned hospital admissions are related to mental health.
Dr. Claire Powell – Domestic abuse and mental health of parents and children: practitioner perspectives on access to CAMHS
This talk explores service coordination challenges for families experiencing domestic abuse, focusing on perspectives from primary care and child mental health practitioners. Based on interviews with 38 professionals across diverse services in England, a systems analysis revealed a disconnect, described as a “wall,” between CAMHS and domestic abuse services. CAMHS practitioners highlighted that domestic abuse adds complexity to cases, often exceeding their training. The findings underscore gaps in service provision for families with mental health needs linked to domestic abuse. Improved pathways between CAMHS and domestic abuse services are recommended to address these gaps effectively.
Learning outcomes
1. To understand practitioner perspectives of the service ecosystem for families experiencing domestic abuse.
2. To recognise groups of families who might find it more difficult to access mental health support when they are experiencing domestic abuse.
3. To understand the perspectives of CAMHS clinicians about the challenges they face supporting families experiencing domestic abuse.
Dr. Ania Zylbersztejn – Mortality in children and young people receiving special educational needs or social care provision and their peers: A population-level cohort study in England
This talk examines the risk of death among children and young people with and without statutory education or social care support. Using linked data from the ECHILD database, researchers analysed 3.1 million children and young people in English state schools from 2009/10 to 2014/15, followed until 2020. Results revealed that children and young people with both Special Educational Needs and children’s social care support had a 5-7 times higher risk of death than peers without support, with injuries being the leading cause. The findings highlight the urgent need for effective interventions to reduce mortality risks for vulnerable children and young people receiving statutory services.
Learning outcomes
1. To learn about risk of death (overall and due to specific causes) in young people; to understand how these risks differ for young people with different levels of statutory support
About the speakers
Dr. Claire Powell is a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on families living in adversity and the services they might access. She currently co-leads work on young carers for the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit and on outcome measurement in domestic abuse services with colleagues at the University of Sussex.
Dr. Ruth Blackburn is a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on generating evidence to inform population mental health improvement for children, young people and their families. She co-leads work on the mental health of children and young people for the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit and the UKRI Population Mental Health Improvement Consortium. She co-created the first whole-nation linkage of health and education data (ECHILD), which is now a national resource reflecting data for 20 million children in England.
Dr. Ania Zylbersztejn is a population data scientist in the UCL Child Health Informatics Group and the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre Applied Child Health Informatics Theme. Her research uses administrative health records to improve outcomes for children with rare or complex health needs and their families.
Booking
Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
FREE for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession, Undergraduate/Postgraduate, LIC memberships) Join now and save
£5 ACAMH Learn Account holders
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Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.