Sleep

Children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health also often struggle with their sleep. Indeed disrupted or altered sleep has been associated with most psychiatric disorders (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Although a range of sleep difficulties can co-occur with mental health problems, a common difficulty is insomnia. As such this guidance will primarily focus on difficulties with getting to sleep and staying asleep.

1 May 2018

Trauma

Most children and young people experience at least one traumatic event before age of 18 years.

1 May 2018

Autistica highlights strong evidence for new communication therapy

Autistica, UK’s autism research charity, are recommending that all local areas should have healthcare professionals accredited to deliver a new form of communication intervention called PACT.

29 March 2018

Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference 2018 – Focusing on Adolescent Mental Health

6 March 2018

With Parents in Mind: Can shared decision making support parents at CAMHS?

Exploring shared decision making as a triad relationship between clinicians, children and parents where clinicians and service users (i.e. children and parents) share the information when faced with the task of making decisions, and where service users are supported to consider options to achieve informed preferences, may be of value.

6 March 2018

Supporting Mental Health in Schools and Colleges – a summary of UK Department of Education’s report

In a 2017 summary report*, the UK Department of Education set out the findings of its research into what English schools and colleges are currently doing to support students with mental health needs and their efforts to promote positive mental health and wellbeing amongst pupils, and their experiences of putting such provisions into practice.

1 March 2018

TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR 3rd National CONFERENCE Naming Nomination

How to Enter The competition will run from 00:01 on 28th February 2018 (the “Opening Date”) to 23:59 on 23 March 2018 (the “Closing Date”). All competition entries must be received by ACAMH by no later than 23:59 on the Closing Date. All nominations received after the Closing Date will not be considered. To enter […]

28 February 2018

Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Through a digital lens

Despite the significant increase, availability and usage of mobile devices by children and teenagers, there is still a lack of evidence to support their safety or effectiveness with vulnerable populations. 

23 February 2018

Child Bereavement

21 February 2018

Informatics

Blogs about informatics in CAMH from the February 2018 edition of The Bridge, ACAMH’s journal of secondary publication.

19 February 2018