Intervention
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Dr. Katie McLaughlin
Dr. Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist with expertise in child and adolescent mental health and the Executive Director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and Knight Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She has a joint Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology from Yale University.
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ACAMH Learn – a new, free online CPD resource for those working in child and adolescent mental health
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) has launched ACAMH Learn acamhlearn.org, a new, free online learning platform offering video and podcast content from more than 200 world-leading mental health experts.
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Dr. Isabel Morales-Munoz
Dr Isabel Morales-Munoz, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Psychology, based at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, at the University of Birmingham. Isabel has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, from the University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain). She completed her MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and her MSc in Psychopathology and Health at the National University of Distance Education (Spain).
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Psychotherapies seem to be especially effective in low- and middle-income countries
Youth psychotherapies appear to be about twice as effective in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to high-income countries. However, disproportionately little research on youth psychotherapies has been conducted in LMICs; 90% of the world’s youth live in LMICs, but only 5% of randomized controlled trials of youth psychotherapies have been conducted in LMICs to date. Therefore, there is great need for more research on psychotherapies for youth in LMICs and for funding directed to LMIC-based investigators, clinicians, and organizations. We do not know why psychotherapies appear more effective in LMICs, but discovering why could help to identify ways of improving youth psychotherapies worldwide.
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The Sustainability of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme: Insights from UK Primary School Teachers
The current youth mental health crisis highlights the need for preventive and early intervention strategies like the Incredible Years programmes. The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management programme has shown positive effects on teachers’ classroom management strategies and pupil mental health. In this blog, we discuss teachers’ views on the sustainability of the programme, necessary to maintain its desired benefits in the longer term.
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JCPP Advances goes from Strength to Strength with Scopus
ACAMH are delighted to announce that our publication JCPP Advances has been accepted by Scopus, a comprehensive abstract and citation database launched by Elsevier. Scopus offers various analytics tools that allow journal editors and publishers to track their journal’s performance, analyse trends, and make data-driven decisions to improve the journal’s quality and impact.
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Professor Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern as well as the Director of the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern in Switzerland. Professor Kaess is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
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Review: Interventions to prevent or manage self-harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – We conducted a systematic review of five databases (Medline, PsycINFO, ASSIA, ERIC and BEI) for quantitative studies evaluating interventions to reduce self-harm among students in schools, colleges and universities. Rasanat Fatima Nawaz (pic) et al.
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Long-term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort
Paper from the CAMH journal – “Application of evidence-based mental health literacy (MHL) curriculum resources by classroom teachers has been demonstrated to significantly improve knowledge and decrease stigma in the short term.” Yifeng Wei et al.
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Mental health outcomes of the Daily Mile in elementary school children: a single-arm pilot study
Paper from the CAMH journal – “This study is the first to examine TDM (a daily one mile outdoor run/walk performed at a self-selected pace during school hours) on mental health, self-esteem and self-perceived competence of elementary schoolchildren”. Anke Arkesteyn et al.
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