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

Mental Wellbeing in Schools, and the Global Mental Health Crisis

In this podcast, we talk to Lauren Cross about her research interests around mental health and wellbeing in schools and inequalities during childhood and adolescence, as well as her co-authored CAMH debate paper ‘Is There a True Global Children and Young People’s Mental Health Crisis Fact or Fiction’.

14 October 2021

Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire

For this session we welcomed Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’. First published: 30 March 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

14 September 2021

Ask the Expert ‘Screen Time & Mental Health – Balancing the positive with the negative’

This FREE online event is exclusively for Teachers, and offers insights into the latest evidence-base, together with practical advice to help you help your pupils. It is the first in a series of free sessions exclusively for Teachers, and is an exciting new partnership between ACAMH and Coram Life Education (CLE).

Event type

Teacher Exclusive Event

The demand for CYP mental health during Covid “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis” – Professor Bernadka Dubicka

In this podcast Bernadka explains what can be done to translate research into practice, and what mental health professionals can do to influence policy. She details the key points of evidence she put across to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on Children and Young People’s Mental Health, including integrated care as being essential. She also elaborates on describing the increasing demand for children and young people’s mental health during the Covid pandemic as “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis”.

3 August 2021

‘The contribution of complex trauma to psychopathology and cognitive deficits’ – In conversation Dr. Stephanie Lewis

In this podcast we talk to Dr. Stephanie Lewis, Clinical Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. She discusses complex trauma and her paper that was recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

21 June 2021

‘ADHD and the implications of a lack of awareness within primary care’ – In Conversation with Blandine French

In this fascinating interview Blandine French discusses her research on understanding GPs awareness of developmental disorders, such as ADHD, and what the implications are of a lack of awareness within primary care, and its impact on young people and their families.

18 March 2021

Developmental language disorders, young offenders, and reoffending – CAMHS around the Campfire

FREE virtual journal club #CAMHScampfire welcomes Dr. Maxine Winstanley on her paper in JCPP on ‘Developmental language disorders and risk of recidivism among young offenders’.

Event type

Informal Journal Club

Location

LIVE STREAM

Investigating the interplay of genetics and environment on development – Prof Cathryn Lewis

Professor Cathryn Lewis, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics, Head of Department, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London, discusses the work of her research group and how determining the polygenic component of mental health disorders can be accurately measured, and how to use genetics to assess people’s risk of mental disorder.

29 January 2021

‘Creative approaches to developing skills for future CAMHS professionals’ In conversation with Dr. Carlos Hoyos

In this podcast we talk to Dr. Carlos Hoyos, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, undergraduate lead for psychiatry at the University of Southampton and ACAMH’s 2020 winner of the David Cottrill Education of CAMH Professionals Award.

8 January 2021