Children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health also often struggle with their sleep. Indeed disrupted or altered sleep has been associated with most psychiatric disorders (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Although a range of sleep difficulties can co-occur with mental health problems, a common difficulty is insomnia. As such this guidance will primarily focus on difficulties with getting to sleep and staying asleep.
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Teacher parent co-production to develop new educational models for the pandemic – and beyond – Professor Helen Minnis
Recorded via video link for the Emmanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference ‘Child and adolescent mental health: what have we learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic? Looking back, Looking forward’ on Friday 19 March 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Professor Bernadka Dubicka – Editor in Chief
Editor in Chief, Bernadka is currently Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Child and Adolescent Faculty since 2017, working to promote the mental wellbeing of young people and their families. Further, she is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Pennine Care Foundation Trust, involved with leading the research unit, has been an advisor to the National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment panel, and has also served as principle investigator in one of the largest international psychological treatment trials in adolescent depression – Improving Mood with Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies (IMPACT).
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Dr. Alice M. Gregory
Alice Gregory is a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London and Director of the Goldsmiths Sleep Lab. Alice first developed an interest in sleep research as an undergraduate student of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and went on to complete her PhD at the Social, Genetic, Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, King’s College, London.
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Behavior in childhood is associated with romantic partnering patterns in adulthood
Video abstract by Francis Vergunst on his JCPP paper ‘Behavior in childhood is associated with romantic partnering patterns in adulthood’
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‘Early years childcare – social exclusion, marketisation, and policy’ In conversation with Professor Eva Lloyd OBE
In this podcast we talk to Professor Eva Lloyd OBE, Professor of Early Childhood in the School of Education and Communities at UEL, about social exclusion and child poverty, and what looks and feels like for those who are in it.
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Sleep, and the Relationship with Anxiety and Depression in Adolescence – Dr. Faith Orchard
Talk from Dr. Faith Orchard, University of Sussex. This is free to watch, ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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‘Social Media Use and Cyberbullying: an international analysis’ – Professor William Pickett
This talk by Professor William Pickett, Queen’s University in Canada, is on ‘Social Media Use and Cyberbullying: an international analysis’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Sleep problems from infancy are linked with impaired well-being in middle childhood
Researchers in the USA and Australia have found that sleep disturbances from early childhood are associated with reductions in well-being at age 10-11 years old. Ariel Williamson and colleagues came to this conclusion after analysing data from >5,000 children enrolled in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children – Birth Cohort.
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Voice‐hearing in adolescence – ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’
FREE virtual journal club. Each 1-hour meeting will feature a new piece of research, which we’ll discuss in an informal journal club session. 17.00 UK, (USA – 12 noon ET, 11.00 CT, 09.00 PT). ACAMH Members will receive a CPD certificate.
- Event type
- Informal Journal Club
- Location
- Online
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