Anxiety disorders

  • Myth busting autism

    Myth Busting: Autism – children and adolescents

    To celebrate Autism Awareness Week we are putting on this FREE webinar, to look at the evidence-base, focus on the facts, and bust some myths when it comes to Autism. Join our hosts Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian, and Dr. Marianna Murin, both specialists in the field of Autism, plus we’ll also have a live discussion to answer your questions.

    Event type
    Webinar
    Location
    Online
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  • Professor Cathy Creswell

    Anxiety; Cues, Clues & Support for Young People in School – Ask the Expert

    Professor Cathy Creswell and Helen Manley join us for the third 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.

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    Teacher Exclusive Event
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Professor Dr. Bernadka Dubicka

    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.

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  • Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH)

    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
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  • Ecological Crisis Mental health There's No planet B

    Climate Change Impacting Mental Health – live from Australia & UK

    Professor Dr. Bernadka Dubicka, Professor Ann Sanson, researchers, clinicians, and young people’s lived experience, will discuss the evidence-base research on the impact climate change is having on mental health. Australia 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time. UK 9am.

    Event type
    Webinar
    Location
    Online
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  • Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health

    Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health

    The ecological crisis is having a significant impact on our mental health, in particular young people. There is an ongoing debate whether this topic should be front and centre for mental health professionals, and those that work with children. What do they need to be doing? What do young people think? How can we work together? As the world focuses on COP26, we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals and young people.

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    Online
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  • Professor Thalia Eley

    Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety – CAMHS around the Campfire

    FREE virtual journal club ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Professor Thalia Eley to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety: results from a prospective twin and sibling study.’ ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a CPD certificate.

    Event type
    Live Stream
    Location
    Online
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  • Dr. Kathryn Modecki

    Effect of smartphone use on parenting ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ – FREE

    FREE virtual journal club #CAMHScampfire will be live from Australia. This session we are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathryn Modecki on her paper in JCPP ‘Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: a multiverse analysis.’ ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a CPD certificate.
    09.30 UK, 10.30 CET, Australia AEST 18.30, ACST 18.00, AWST 16.30.

    Event type
    Live Stream
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Finding strength from a bleak year

    Professor Andrea Danese explains about the KeepCool project.

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  • EEG data might help identify children at risk for social anxiety

    Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive method to monitor the electrical activity of the brain. There are five main broad frequency bands in the EEG power spectrum: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta. Data suggest that EEG-derived delta–beta coupling — indicating related activity in the delta and beta frequency bands — might serve as a marker of emotion regulation.

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