Fire starting; early intervention and education

In this podcast, criminologist Joanna Foster discusses fire starting in children, early intervention and fire safety education. Joanna is the managing director of fabtic, a company specialising in fire setting behaviour by children.

21 February 2022

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

Hope and courage in the climate crisis – recording

This was the third session celebrating the launch of the CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’ (due to be published in January 2022). ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

12 January 2022

Developmental Trauma vs Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Bookings closed. Hear from three of the most interesting and engaging speakers on the topic of Developmental Trauma and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. We are delighted to be working with Dr. Kim Golding CBE, Dr. Raja Mukherjee, and Professor Helen Minnis.

Ask the Expert ‘Improving Children’s Sleep; The role a teacher can play’ – recording

For this session welcomed Dr. Faith Orchard to discuss ‘Improving Children’s Sleep; The role a teacher can play’. Dr. Orchard also answered questions in a session facilitated by leading education professional Professor Barry Carpenter.

25 November 2021

Positive Wellbeing and Resilience following Adolescent Victimisation

In this podcast, we talk to Jessica Armitage about her research into genetic and environmental influences underlying resilient functioning, as well as her JCPP Advances paper ‘Positive wellbeing and resilience following adolescent victimisation: An exploration into protective factors across development’.

18 November 2021

Ideas emerging from week one at COP26

Professor Bernadka Dubicka, our Editor in Chief of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal (CAMH), and recent chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Faculty RCPsych, has been at COP26. In this blog post Bernadka talks about what she has learned from the first week of the global climate conference.

10 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

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

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