ACAMH News
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Celebrating the life and work of Professor Sir Michael Rutter
On 27 June 2022, King’s College London welcomed friends, family and colleagues from across the globe to share Sir Michael’s impact on them, their work, and the field of child psychiatry.
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Adverse childhood experiences: what support do young people need?
Recent research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) identifies the types of support young people feel they need from services, and offers ways to support the mental health of children in care and those adopted from care.
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Helping Teachers Help Pupils With Mental Health
ACAMH commits to developing a comprehensive series of resources that disseminate research-informed, evidence-based practice in schools, to support children & young people’s mental health & wellbeing
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Children first – A positional statement from ACAMH board
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) is deeply concerned about the escalating invasion in Ukraine. This and other ongoing conflicts around the World – Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Myanmar, and many others – continue to bring tragic consequences, upturning the lives of many millions of people, and challenging the basic human right to peace and security.
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Improving research-informed practice in schools
We have recently launched an initiative aimed at teachers, to enable schools to access and put to use resources that can genuinely make a difference to the mental wellbeing and educational outcomes of young people.
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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022
The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Growing Together’. Our Vision is ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and to this end we urge you to take a look at the learning opportunities on our website and to share with your networks.
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CAMH Special Issue – ‘Mental Health and the Global Ecological Crisis’
To accompany the CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’ (January 2022), ACAMH is proud to bring you a series of events, content, and Open Access papers, focusing on the mental health implications of climate change.
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2021 Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers
The results are in, and in recognition of the success of our three journals, the JCPP, the CAMH and JCPP Advances, we are proud to present the top 10 most downloaded papers for each journal, published in 2021.
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Yes, young people are concerned about climate change. But it can drive them to take action
In this blog post, Emma Sciberras and Julian Fernando discuses eco-anxiety, the impact of climate change on CYP mental health, and their 2022 CAMH Special Issue paper. This blog was published on The Conversation.com on Wednesday 10 November 2021.
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