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Most popular ACAMH web content 2020
As 2020 draws to a close we have collated the most popular online content, from our website.
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‘Data sets, mental well-being and school-based interventions’ In Conversation with Dr. Praveetha Patalay
In this podcast, Dr. Praveetha Patalay discusses data sets, the difference between mental health and mental health well-being and school-based interventions. Praveetha also talks about her recent JCPP paper on ‘Prescribing measures: unintended negative consequences of mandating standardized mental health measurement’.
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Making personalised predictions of poor functioning following negative childhood experiences
Experiencing abuse, neglect, bullying, or domestic violence in childhood increases the likelihood of having poor functioning in young adulthood, but this is not the case for everyone. Being able to accurately predict which individuals are at high risk for poor outcomes following such negative childhood experiences could support professionals to effectively target interventions. Is it possible to make accurate personalised predictions?
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‘CAMH professionals multi-dimensional role as clinician scientists’ In Conversation with Dr. Aisha Sanober Chachar
In this podcast, Dr. Aisha Sanober Chachar, recent ACAMH Awards 2020 Winner (Clinical) Trainee of the Year, talks about the many different roles a CAMH professional has, be it researcher, clinician, carer, and even storyteller.
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Protected: The crisis in mental disorders in the young: why is trauma reduction ignored? recording
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LGBT adolescents, sexting, and consent
The exact prevalence of sexting is still under academic debate. Yet the dominant discourses appear to associate it with adolescents; this association exists partially due to the media stories conveying negative consequences and moral panics regarding adolescent suicide cases as a result of sexting (Dobson, 2017).
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‘Maternal depression, suicide risk and culturally appropriate interventions’ – In Conversation with Dr. Rhonda Boyd
In this podcast, Dr. Rhonda Boyd, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and psychologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks depression, suicide and culturally appropriate interventions.
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CAMHS services in our physically distanced world
On March 23rd 2020, the way healthcare was provided in England had to change overnight. With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the country, CAMHS staff had to adapt to the news that they must provide routine services from home where possible and all non-urgent face-to-face contact must cease to prevent the spread of the virus.
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How digital technologies affect adolescent psychological well-being and mental health – Dr. Amy Orben
Talk from Dr. Amy Orben, College Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Emotional functioning in the transition from childhood to adolescence, and beyond – In Conversation with Professor Nick Allen
In this podcast, Professor Nick Allen, Director of the Centre for Digital Mental Health at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon talks about developmental transitions from childhood to adolescence.
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