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  • JCPP Editorial: Volume 62, Issue 04, April 2021

    “‘The early bird catches the worm’—the need for even earlier intervention and targeted prevention for mental illnesses” by Helen L. Fisher

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  • Dr. Alice M. Gregory

    Alice Gregory is a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London and Director of the Goldsmiths Sleep Lab. Alice first developed an interest in sleep research as an undergraduate student of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and went on to complete her PhD at the Social, Genetic, Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, King’s College, London.

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  • Professor Francesca Happé CBE

    Congratulations to Professor Francesca Happé CBE

    We are delighted and proud to announce that Professor Francesca Happé, ACAMH Board Member and past Joint Editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2000-2006), was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to the study of autism.

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  • Play and the pandemic: a rapid review of the literature and promising steps forward

    The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a health crisis among the global community. Children in virtually all countries have been impacted in terms of movement restrictions, school closures, playground and public park closures, and limited access to social and extended family networks.

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  • LGBT adolescents, sexting, and consent

    The exact prevalence of sexting is still under academic debate. Yet the dominant discourses appear to associate it with adolescents; this association exists partially due to the media stories conveying negative consequences and moral panics regarding adolescent suicide cases as a result of sexting (Dobson, 2017).

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    November 2020 – The Bridge

    The research featured in this issue covers a wide range of topics relevant to our work with young people, including neurodevelopmental, emotional, and behavioural disorders, their comorbidity, and their links with functioning and quality of life.

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  • Dr. Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil

    Dr. Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil

    Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States. His research focuses on using clinical, epidemiological, and neuroimaging approaches to identify risk and protective factors of mood disorders in young people, including depression, anxiety, irritability, and suicidality.

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  • ‘OpenHouse on Autism’ – It’s not a tantrum, it’s a meltdown. Creating positivity around emotions.

    In this webinar, host Dr. Lucy Sanctuary, Autism Specialist with Clinical Partners, was joined by Clinical Psychologists Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr. Marianna Murin to discover practical ways to address challenges around difficult emotional behaviours.

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  • Professor Charles Hulme

    Identifying and remediating children’s language difficulties – Professor Charles Hulme

    Professor Charles Hulme, Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Oxford discusses children’s language difficulties. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org with the day and time you watch it, so we can check the analytics, and we’ll email you your certificate.

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  • Dr. Rachel Hiller

    A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care

    Dr. Rachel Hiller gives a video abstract of her paper ‘A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care’.

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