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Global development and injecting drug use in a new generation of adolescents
People who inject drugs tend to begin doing so in adolescence, and countries that have larger numbers of adolescents who inject drugs may be at risk of emerging epidemics of blood borne viruses unless they take urgent action.
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Female pioneers: Kathy Sylva OBE on educational psychologist and psychoanalyst Susan Isaacs CBE
To celebrate International Women’s Day, three ACAMH luminaries shine the spotlight on the female pioneers of child and adolescent psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, they most admire. “Susan Isaacs made a major contribution to our understanding of child development, yet is very little known, and I want to keep her memory alive.”
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Digital interventions for young people: addressing the gap between development and implementation
Closing the gap between reliability and safety of mental health apps as an intervention.
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Most cited CAMH paper #17 of 25: Teachers’ Recognition of Children’s Mental Health Problems
Maria E. Loades, Kiki Mastroyannopoulou.
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Key Practitioner Message includes; Teachers were generally good at recognising the existence and severity of symptoms of problems (behavioural or emotional) presented by a child described in a vignette. -
Most cited CAMH paper #23 of 25: Adolescents Who Self Harm: A Comparison of Those Who Go to Hospital and Those Who Do Not
Keith Hawton, Karen Rodham, Emma Evans, Louise Harriss.
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In Conversation… Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Dr. Fiona Duffy
Fiona Duffy explains IPT and how it differs from CBT. They touch upon interpersonal risk and maintaining factors, and how the therapy has been adapted for children and young people.
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Most Popular Content of 2019
We’ve collated the most popular online content, from our website, of 2019. We would like to thank all of our collaborators who are helping us in ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’.
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Self-harm in children and adolescents: attention seeking or cause for concern?
Is the reporting of self-harm improving due to better awareness, or are young people really self-harming at increasing rates? How concerned should we be about the increase? In this blog, I draw on recent work by my colleagues in the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England.
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Valuing the work of therapy: how to take real value into account
What is the gap between what we value in the work of therapy, and how we measure it? How as a society do we evaluate the worth of child therapy compared to the tangible results we’re used to measuring.
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Why it’s good to ban smacking
I remember going to an international conference on child abuse and neglect many years ago and thinking before I went, that the UK was pretty far ahead in terms of the services we offer. I was shocked when one presentation went through some of the evidence on how smacking is related to physical abuse, and how many countries in the world allowed it.
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