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  • Self-Harm: The Parent’s View

    Though it is not always openly discussed, the impact self-harm has on the individual and their family, can be very distressing. For someone to recover from ‘rock-bottom’ requires support, with family being an obvious source. It makes sense that the pillars of this support system, parents in most cases, feel equipped to support their child in recovering from such an experience. Saying this, there is little research on parents’ perspective of care following self-harm.

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 11, November 2017

    “Minding the gap – research on sexual minority and gender nonconforming children and adolescents” by Charles H. Zeanah & Myo Thwin Myint

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    CAMH Editorial: Volume 22, Issue 4, November 2017

    “Global child mental health – emerging challenges and opportunities” by Panos Vostanis.

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  • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Conference – Interviews with Jim Lyng and Stephanie Hastings

    Interviews with Jim Lyng and Stephanie Hastings recorded on 20 October 2017 at the ACAMH Irish Branch conference on DBT.

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    Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal

    ACAMH members get full text access to the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health: For non members click here to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Past CAMH editorials freely available CAMH Call for Review CAMH Narrative Matters – Call for Humanities Papers Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) publishes high quality, peer-reviewed child and adolescent mental […]

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  • Practicing what we preach

    Today is World Mental Health Day, with this year’s theme being mental health in the workplace. I believe the most valuable asset any organisation has are its staff, and their wellbeing should be paramount to every CEO.

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  • Mental health in schools

    “Sometimes you feel like a volcano erupting,” one eight-year-old boy told us, “but if you come to Place2Be, you can cool down.”

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  • The Parent Blame Game

    Seventy years ago Leo Kanner published his seminal paper describing autism. In that paper he also coined the term “refrigerator mother” apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices.

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 10, October 2017

    “New frontiers in the scientific study of developmental language disorders” by Courtenay Frazier Norbury & Edmund Sonuga-Barke

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  • Professor Maggie Snowling

    ‘Dyslexia from assessment to intervention’ interview with Professor Maggie Snowling

    Interview with Professor Maggie Snowling on 29 September 2017, at the Welsh ACAMH Branch conference, ‘Dyslexia from assessment to intervention’.

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