Breaking the Bias: Celebrating Women in CAMH

This International Women’s Day, ACAMH is proud to present a FREE event celebrating women’s achievements in CAMH, and exploring how gender bias affects CAMH professionals. A panel, chaired by Professor Bernadka Dubicka, will explore the challenges women have faced in the CAMH profession, examine how gender bias affects CAMH professionals, and celebrate women’s achievements. Panel; Dr. Gordana Milavić, Professor Francesca Happé, Professor Kathy Sylva OBE, Dr. Rhonda Boyd, Dr. Praveetha Patalay, Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Bethany Cliffe, Clara Faria, and Gloria Cheung.

Event type

Webinar

Understanding Eating Disorders

Around 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from eating disorders. These disorders can cause serious harm, both physically and emotionally, and they have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Early diagnosis, intervention and treatment is critical.

20 January 2022

Open Science, Rapid Publication, and Collaboration

JCPP Advances is already causing waves in the research sector with 38 papers published, and 4 papers having found policy mentions making a difference in the real world. In this podcast, we hear from Dr. Catharina Hartman about our Open Access journal, JCPP Advances, as well as her recent work with the CoCA (Comorbid Conditions of ADHD) project.

17 January 2022

2021 Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers

The results are in, and in recognition of the success of our three journals, the JCPP, the CAMH and JCPP Advances, we are proud to present the top 10 most downloaded papers for each journal, published in 2021.

16 December 2021

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

CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2021

Supporting children and young people (CYP) who self-harm (SH) is an important work of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This theme is reflected throughout this issue.

8 December 2021

Cundill Centre Online Tool for the Treatment of Youth Depression – recording

The Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is proud to launch its free, interactive online tool that summarises best practices for supporting youth as they manage their depression. This is a recording from a session providing for ACAMH on Tuesday 9 November 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

10 November 2021

Launch of the Cundill Centre Online Tool for the Treatment of Youth Depression

The Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is proud to launch its free, interactive online tool that summarises best practices for supporting youth as they manage their depression.

Event type

Webinar

Location

Online

Genetics research informing mental health care

Anita Thapar discusses that genetic studies of mental health have revealed important insights about the influence of genes and the environment, and the nature of disorders. She explains how these insights could improve mental health care for young people and their families now and in the future.

19 October 2021

Mental Health Act White Paper: potential implications for children and young people

Reforms to the Mental Health Act will affect children and young people detained in hospitals. Susan Walker, Bernadka Dubicka, and David Kingsley discuss recent proposals for reform and consider their implications for children and young people.

19 October 2021