Children and young people spend a great deal of time at school, so it has an important role to play in their development. Time spent in school impacts not just on academic and cognitive progress, but also on social interactions, peer relationships, emotional regulation and behaviour.
School-based interventions
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Bullying and Loneliness – Pedagogy in practice
This Bullying and Loneliness session is exclusively for teachers and school leaders, and Chartered College of Teaching Members. ACAMH is delighted to have teamed up with the Chartered College of Teaching to present these FREE online training series entitled ‘Pedagogy in practice’.
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Mental Health Conditions in Young People: Prevalence, Shifts & Support – Ask the Expert
Professor Mina Fazel joins us for the fourth 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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How effective are tools to help school staff better respond to young people who self-harm?
Aureliane Pierret and colleagues at the University of Cambridge carried out a systematic review into the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of interventions and tools to support school staff to better respond to young people who disclose self-harm.
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‘NDC Learning Series’ – NDCs in schools
This is the fourth of the ‘NDC Learning Series’ aimed at health professionals who come into contact with children and young people who have Neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs). We are delighted to welcome Dr. James Galpin with a session that will focus on ‘NDCs in schools’. The Chair of this session is Dr. Mark Lovell.
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Ask the Expert ‘Screen Time & Mental Health – Balancing the positive with the negative’
This FREE online event is exclusively for Teachers, and offers insights into the latest evidence-base, together with practical advice to help you help your pupils. It is the first in a series of free sessions exclusively for Teachers, and is an exciting new partnership between ACAMH and Coram Life Education (CLE).
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- Teacher Exclusive Event
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Addressing self-harm in schools, a priority for all – FREE
This event is now at capacity. For information about the next in this series please sign up to our newsletter. These FREE sessions are an absolute must for those working in an educational setting. Practical, evidence-based examples and advice from world-leading experts.
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Literature review of support tools for school staff to respond to CYP self‐harm – CAMHS around the Campfire
#CAMHScampfire welcomes author Aureliane Pierret, and co-author Dr. Joanna Anderson, as we discuss the CAMH Open Access paper ‘Review: Education and training interventions, and support tools for school staff to adequately respond to young people who disclose self‐harm – a systematic literature review of effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability’ by Aureliane Pierret, Dr. Joanna Anderson, Professor Tamsin Ford, and Dr. Anne‐Marie Burn.
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Professor Paul Ramchandani
Paul is LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at Cambridge University. He is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Paul’s research focuses on early child development, including the role of play in children’s early development and the prevention of mental health problems. He is the Practitioner Review Editor for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Professor Carlo Schuengel
Carlo Schuengel is Full Professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), The Netherlands. He is co-director of the Amsterdam Publc Health Research Institute and leads the Academic Collaborative Center of ‘s Heeren Loo – VUA.
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Reflections on working psychotherapeutically in schools
One of the greatest challenges in my experience of working psychotherapeutically in schools has been in trying to balance the increasing complexity of children’s mental health needs with the reduction in funding and therefore time frame in which to work.
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