foster care
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Mental health and care-experienced young people: are our mental health support services appealing and accessible?
Children in care are much more likely to experience mental health problems than young people in the general population. Early life experiences, such as abuse, neglect, parental drug-use or violence likely play a major part in this. So too could the instability that is often inherent in the care system.
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Exploring the experiences of care networks providing therapeutic support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors
Dr. Hayley Rajpal explores the experiences of care networks providing therapeutic support to Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors. Talk delivered at the ACAMH Southern Branch ‘Service improvement and research: Innovation and new challenges in CAMHS’. Free to watch.
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Therapeutic Engagement with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors
This Refugee Week, we are joined by Dr. Hayley Rajpal to explore the challenges of therapeutic engagement with unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
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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
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Predicting Complex PTSD in Foster Care – CAMHS around the Campfire
This session we are discussing complex PTSD, with the focus on Dr. Rachel Hiller’s JCPP open access paper ‘A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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