COVID & the impact on Mental Health of School Closures – CAMHS around the Campfire

For this session we are pleased to welcome Dr. Karen Mansfield, a postdoctoral research scientist from the School Mental Health Project, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP Advances paper ‘‘Covid-19 partial school closures and mental health problems: a cross sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to determine those most at risk’’.

Event type

CAMHS around the Campfire

Location

LIVE STREAM

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

The Anxiety and Grief of the Ecological Crisis

Ahead of COP26, and as part of the lead up to the CAMH Special Issue ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’, we talked to Dr. Laelia Benoit about her paper in the CAMH Special Issue and her research into ecological anxiety.

28 October 2021

The Bridge is back!

We are honoured to spend some time talking with Dr. Steph Lewis, a Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, and Editor of The Bridge, about the exciting new relaunch of ACAMH’s magazine, The Bridge.

21 October 2021

Which perinatal exposures confer a risk of offspring depression?

In December 2020, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published a Research Review authored by Xiangfei Meng and colleagues Yingying Su and Carl D’Arcy on the developmental origins of depression.

21 October 2021

What role does genetic risk play in shaping the developmental patterns of depressive symptoms?

In December 2020, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published a Research Review authored by Xiangfei Meng and colleagues Yingying Su and Carl D’Arcy on the developmental origins of depression.

21 October 2021

How effective are tools to help school staff better respond to young people who self-harm?

Aureliane Pierret and colleagues at the University of Cambridge carried out a systematic review into the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of interventions and tools to support school staff to better respond to young people who disclose self-harm.

21 October 2021

What are the characteristics of arguments that precede youth suicide?

Researchers at Kent State University, USA have studied the characteristics of conflicts or arguments before death by suicide in young people aged 17 years or younger.

21 October 2021

Conflating risk and mental illness

In this thoughtful article, a young person, Anna, reflects on her experience of risk being conflated with mental illness in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), highlighting crucial lessons for clinicians, commissioners, and policy makers.

21 October 2021

Complex PTSD in young people in care

Aishat Hamzat, Rachel M Hiller and Helen Minnis discuss what research tells us about the mechanisms underlying complex PTSD symptoms experienced by young people in care. They consider implications for treatment and broader support provided for these young people

21 October 2021