Stress, adversity, COVID; caring for children with an intellectual disability

This free webinar is open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group Monthly seminars. In this session we welcome Dr. Jeanne Wolstencroft, Research Fellow at the Great Ormond Street UCL Population, Policy and Practice Dept. will present findings from The IMAGINE—ID consortium.

Event type

ACEs SIG Monthly seminars

Location

FREE live stream

The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents

Open Access paper from the JCPP – “The salience of economic inequalities in proximal social environments (e.g. among friends) in early adolescence could further amplify the negative effects of economic disadvantage on mental health and behavioural difficulties during this period”. Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer et al.

14 November 2022

Climate change-related worry, engagement, and mental health

In this podcast, Dr. Emma Sciberras and Dr. Julian Fernando discuss their co-authored paper ‘Climate change-related worry among Australian adolescents: an eight-year longitudinal study’, published in the CAMH 2022 Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’.

19 April 2022

Combined polygenic risk scores, & predicting psychopathology

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Alex Neumann and Professor Henning Tiemeier to discuss the JCPP paper ‘Combined polygenic risk scores of different psychiatric traits predict general and specific psychopathology in childhood’.

9 December 2021

Yes, young people are concerned about climate change. But it can drive them to take action

In this blog post, Emma Sciberras and Julian Fernando discuses eco-anxiety, the impact of climate change on CYP mental health, and their 2022 CAMH Special Issue paper. This blog was published on The Conversation.com on Wednesday 10 November 2021.

26 November 2021

Hope and courage in the climate crisis

FREE event Celebrating the launch of the CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’ (due to be published on the day of this event January 2022), we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals, young people, clinicians, and researchers.

Event type

Talk

Location

Online

Climate Change Impacting Mental Health – live from Australia & UK

Professor Dr. Bernadka Dubicka, Professor Ann Sanson, researchers, clinicians, and young people’s lived experience, will discuss the evidence-base research on the impact climate change is having on mental health. Australia 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time. UK 9am.

Event type

Webinar

Location

Online

Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health

The ecological crisis is having a significant impact on our mental health, in particular young people. There is an ongoing debate whether this topic should be front and centre for mental health professionals, and those that work with children. What do they need to be doing? What do young people think? How can we work together? As the world focuses on COP26, we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals and young people.

Location

Online

‘Increased mental health difficulties in vulnerable children during lockdown’- In Conversation with Dolapo Adegboye

The third in our JCPP Advances podcast series that focus on the papers and editors featured in the publication is with Dolapo Adegboye, research associate in the Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit (NDAU) at Cardiff University.

10 May 2021

Mental Health in schools: learning lessons from the past

Whilst the pandemic may be a contributory factor, the increase in mental health problems from one in eight to one in six between 2017 and today is alarming and needs addressing urgently. Unfortunately, it seems that recent changes in education have impacted negatively YP emotional wellbeing.

23 March 2021