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Little Treatments, BIG effects: Conversation on Single-Session Interventions – recording
Members only – Dr. Jessica Schleider’s, Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, led this session on Single-Session Interventions. SSIs integrate cutting-edge psychological science, lived experience narratives and practical self-help activities to introduce a new type of therapeutic experience to audiences worldwide.
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The SWELL clinical trial: Preventing depression in young people who have a parent with a history of depression
The Skills for Adolescent WELLbeing (SWELL) study team are currently recruiting parents with a history of depression and a child aged 13-17 to take part in an exciting new study testing whether a group cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) program that teaches skills for wellbeing can prevent depression or reduce depression symptoms in young people.
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Creating Hope Through Action – Suicide Prevention, A Priority For All
World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) is a fantastic opportunity to encourage an understanding and increase awareness of suicide prevention and make suicide prevention a priority. We encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website and do please share with your networks and colleagues.
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CME for Reviewers – Be Recognised for Peer Review with ACAMH journals
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with publishing partners Wiley, now offers continuing medical education (CME) credit for peer review of manuscripts submitted to all three journals, The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP), the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances.
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Engaging Young People in Conversations Exploring the Impact of Their Online Use on Mental Health
Young people have better access to the internet than ever before, with those under 18 accounting for one in three internet users globally. Recently, The Royal College of the Psychiatrists in the UK advised that social media and online use should be considered in assessing risk of all young people they meet. However, it is currently unclear whether this advice has been implemented in practice.
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Don’t blame the children: Supporting families with young children
Most research on the relationships between children and their parents focuses on the effects parents and their parenting have on children and their behaviour. However, researchers are more and more recognising and studying the impact that children’s behaviour can have on the wellbeing of their parents, in turn further affecting children’s development. AnaCristina Bedoya (pic), Jill Portnoy Donaghy and Dr. Keri Wong.
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JCPP Advances now indexed on PubMedCentral
The PubMedCentral (PMC) archive for JCPP Advances is now live. Now in it’s third year, this is a fantastic achievement for JCPP Advances and provides increased discoverability and visibility to papers published in the journal. The PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature and contains more than 8 million full-text article records.
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ACAMH Awards 2023 Nominees Long list
See who made the nominees longlist for the 2023 ACAMH Awards.
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Interrelationships between parental mental health, intimate partner violence and child mental health – implications for practice (recording)
This webinar was led by Prof. Gene Feder, Dr Shabeer Syed, and Dr Claire Powell on behalf of the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit, and was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group Monthly seminars.
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Health inequalities, children and young people – Professor Sir Michael Marmot
This lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot ‘Health inequalities, children and young people’ was the keynote from the 2023 CAMH Lecture.
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