School-based interventions
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Debate – Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions?
FREE webinar! We are delighted to announce the inaugural CAMH journal debate on universal school-based mental health interventions. The session will be chaired by Prof Umar Toseeb, featuring a panel of leading experts — Dr. Lucy Foulkes, Jack Andrews, Prof. Bronwynè Coetzee, Dr. Louise Birrell, and Dr. Emma Carter who authored recent debate papers on universal school-based mental health interventions in the CAMH journal.
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- Debate
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Embedding Evolutionary Principles into the Educational Frontline
Evolutionary psychiatry examines mental health through the lens of evolutionary biology, focusing on ultimate causes like gene-environment interactions and evolutionary mismatches rather than just proximate mechanisms. This approach highlights how traits once adaptive in ancestral environments may now contribute to mental health vulnerabilities. This is sure to be a truly fascinating and valuable session.
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- Half day conference
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Schools – a pathway to Public health through Trauma Informed approaches to establish a healthy environment
School as a pathway to public health ensures that the environment promotes psychological safety, enables equity and inclusion and facilitates children to be able to live life well, interrupting the cycle of intergenerational trauma. This free webinar is open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The webinar will be led by Julie Harmieson, TISUK Director of Education and National Strategy.
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- FREE live stream
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- Online
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Missing the Context: Social Inequalities and School-Based Mental Health Interventions
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Karen Mansfield discusses her JCPP Advances Editorial Perspective ‘Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school‐based mental health interventions’.
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RESHAPE Study: Key Takeaways on Young Peoples’ Lockdown Experiences
In this ‘RESHAPE Study’ series episode, Professor Tamsin Ford and Lauren Cross explore the lockdown experiences of young people and parents, as well as discuss the reintegration back into pre-pandemic routines.
The ‘RESHAPE Study’ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the RESHAPE study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers, and mental health professionals.
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RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health
Video abstract from Setareh Ekhteraei and Choden Dukpa on their co-authored CAMH journal Short Research Article ‘RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health’.
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Bridging the Child Mental Health Care Gap in LMICs: RESEED and Task-shifted, Teacher-led Care
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Christina Cruz (pic), Dr. Michael Matergia, and Priscilla Giri discuss their co-authored CAMH journal Short Research Article ‘RESEED – the perceived impact of an enhanced usual care model of a novel, teacher-led, task-shifting initiative for child mental health’.
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Stress and mental health presentations in secondary school-aged young people – recording
This was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group, and was 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.
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The Role of Early Childhood Education in Supporting the Mental Health of Children
Professor Kathy Sylva OBE delivered this Keynote lecture ‘The Role of Early Childhood Education in Supporting the Mental Health of Children’ on Thursday 9 November at the ACAMH Awards. Professor Sylva was the recipient of ACAMH’s Michael Rutter Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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Friendships and Mental Health: Insights from the OxWell Student Survey
The ‘Insights from the OxWell Student Survey‘ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the OxWell study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers and mental health professionals.
In this episode, Tanya Manchanda comments on the friendship findings from the OxWell survey, including an insight into the impact of friendships on mental health outcomes and friendship interventions for young people.
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