Children’s Mental Health Week 2022

The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Growing Together’. Our Vision is ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and to this end we urge you to take a look at the learning opportunities on our website and to share with your networks.

4 February 2022

Mental Health Conditions in Young People: Prevalence, Shifts & Support – Ask the Expert

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

Event type

Live Stream

Mental Health Inequality, and Disparity, in an Unequal World

For this podcast, focusing on child and adolescent mental health in an unequal world, we are joined by Dr. Aisha Sanober Chachar, co-founder and Director of Synapse, Pakistan Neuroscience Institute.

24 January 2022

Early Intervention, Maternal Depressed Mood & Child Cognitive Development

In this podcast, we talk to Professor Mark Tomlinson about his JCPP paper ‘First 1,000 days: enough for mothers but not for children? Long-term outcomes of an early intervention on maternal depressed mood and child cognitive development: follow-up of a randomised controlled trial’.

16 December 2021

Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Thorhildur Halldorsdottir about her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Are girls struggling more than boys?’.

2 December 2021

Reward- and threat-related neural function associated with depression

The focus of this podcast is on the recently published JCPP paper ‘Reward- and threat-related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil’, co-authored by Dr. Johnna Swartz.

25 November 2021

How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? – CAMHS around the Campfire recording

For this session we welcomed Dr. Ana Pascual-Sanchez, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, to discuss her CAMH paper ‘How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? A cross-sectional study’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

22 November 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

Are ACE scores useful for identifying individuals at risk of health problems?

Clinics are increasingly screening for ACEs, but ACE scores may not tell us who will go on to develop poor health, explain Jessie R Baldwin (pic) and Andrea Danese.

21 October 2021

Prenatal Caffeine Exposure: Association with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

In this podcast, Dr. Peter Manza and Dr. Rui Zhang discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Prenatal Caffeine Exposure: Association with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in 9- to 11- year old children’.

19 October 2021