CAMHS
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Christian Boakye: What it’s like to be a Speech and Language Therapist
Christian Boakye shares some of his working life as a Speech and Language Therapist working in young offenders institutes.
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Gillian Davies: What it’s like to be a Speech and Language Therapist
Gillian Davies talks about what it’s like to be a speech and language therapist in the Evelina London Community Speech and Language Therapy service (Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust)
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April 2020 – The Bridge
This edition of The Bridge focuses on CBT, includes ‘Can transdiagnostic CBT improve outcomes in children with ASD?’ and ‘Does online CBT work for treating adolescent anxiety?’
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A day in the life of a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
CWPs deliver low-intensity psychological interventions for mild to moderate low mood and anxiety disorders.
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CYP-IAPT – Where next?
This article outlines the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies project (CYP-IAPT), including where it came from, where we are now, and the challenges we have faced on the way.
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Modern illness or a thing of the past? Surveillance study of childhood/adolescent Sydenham’s chorea in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
Sydenham’s chorea is a rare condition that can have a severe impact on children and families. Tamsin discusses her and her teams research so far, explaining why it is important for clinicians working in child mental health services to report any suspected cases.
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Reflections of an International Elective Trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: what can we all learn from each other?
International Elective rotations (IER) are a widely practised phenomenon globally and can offer cross-cultural insight to mental health professionals.
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Dr Jon Goldin on the coronavirus and child mental health
Dr. Jon Goldin Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working at Great Ormond Street Hospital discusses child mental health in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Child mental health professionals need more technology training
Bethany Cliffe and colleagues have surveyed 154 CAMHS professionals to understand why technology-based tools have not yet been widely adopted by CAMHS.
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How can a robot help your mental health?
Cath Kitchen, Head Teacher and Project Manager for the DoE AV1 project, and Zoe Johnson ‘Zobot’ explain how this innovative device is helping young people with long term physical and mental health issues to ‘virtually’ attend school.
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