mental health
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Combined polygenic risk scores, & predicting psychopathology
For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Alex Neumann and Professor Henning Tiemeier to discuss the JCPP paper ‘Combined polygenic risk scores of different psychiatric traits predict general and specific psychopathology in childhood’.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2021
Supporting children and young people (CYP) who self-harm (SH) is an important work of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This theme is reflected throughout this issue.
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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?’.
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The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 School Closures
The focus of this podcast is on the 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’, written by Dr. Karen Mansfield, Associate Professor Mina Fazel, and colleagues.
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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.
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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’.
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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’.
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Dr. Gordana Milavić on World Mental Health Day 2021
Dr. Gordana Milavić on World Mental Health Day 2021
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2021
With the patchy but increasing roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, and as the world begins to emerge in a bumpy fashion from strict lock-downs, the frightening experience of overwhelmed hospitals and alarmingly high mortality rates from COVID-19, we are beginning to take stock of the huge toll from the pandemic.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2021
There is probably a consensus that psychiatric hospitalization for children and adolescents should be part of a continuum of care, but that given its expense and unnatural nature (children should be with families in a community), as noted by Kyriakopoulos in this issue, it should be used sparingly.
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