Depression
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Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents
Emeritus Professor Pim Cuijpers – I will give an overview of the research on preventing the onset of major depression in youth and will show that prevention is indeed possible but also faces important challenges in terms of effectiveness and implementation.
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- Introductory and Update Session
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- LIVE STREAM
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Professor Bernadka Dubicka – Editor in Chief
Editor in Chief, Bernadka qualified in medicine and psychology at the University of London, completing child psychiatry training and her thesis in adolescent depression at the University of Manchester. She is the chief investigator of the National Institute of Health Research multi-site BAY trial of web-based Behavioural Activation in young people with depression (2022-26).
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Chronotype and Depression in Adolescence
We know that there is a bidirectional association between sleep duration/quality and depressive symptoms in youth. In adult populations depressive symptoms and circadian rhythms (sleep chronotype) have also been linked. In this paper, we established an association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence, independently of poor sleep and prior mental health difficulties.
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Professor Stephan Collishaw
Professor Stephan Collishaw serves as co-director for the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health and Professor in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section in the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University.
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Mood Disorders in Children and Young People: What is new? – Emanuel Miller International Conference 2024
ACAMH is delighted to have the privilege of introducing world-renowned researchers and clinicians, working in the field of mood disorders, for the 2024 Emanuel Miller International Conference. About the Conference Following seminal studies and the publication of clinical guidelines, recognising and treating mood disorders in children and young people continues to improve. However both depressive […]
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- Emanuel Miller International Conference
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- LIVE STREAM
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Professor Gabrielle Carlson
Gabrielle Carlson is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She is also President of AACAP (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) Professor Carlson is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
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Stress and mental health presentations in secondary school-aged young people
This free webinar is open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.
This webinar will be led by Dr. Ruth Blackburn and Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health present research on mental health in secondary school-aged young people.- Event type
- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream
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Autism; Depression in children and teenagers – Prof. Tony Attwood Special
This session will focus on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help children and young people with autism with depression. It should interest all mental health professionals and particularly parents and those that support children and young people with autism. There will be effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be used immediately.
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- Live Stream
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- Online
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Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries, Cambridge study argues
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. And paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing. JCPP Editorial from Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, and Dr Annie Swanepoel.
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Bipolar Masterclass ‘Updates on assessment, monitoring, and treatment’
We are delighted to be able to offer this Bipolar Spectrum Masterclass ‘Updates on assessment, monitoring, and treatment’ to be delivered by Dr. Rasim Somer Diler, one the of world’s leading experts in this field. All are welcome. BOOKINGS CLOSED
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- Masterclass
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- LIVE STREAM