Trauma
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How to spot and support students who have experienced trauma
Blog from Amy Sayer. “The need to spot and support students who have experienced trauma has become increasingly urgent and necessary within educational settings.”
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Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We evaluate the intergenerational effects of prenatal stress experienced during apartheid on psychiatric morbidity among children at ages 17–18 and also assess the moderating effects of maternal age, social support, and past household adversity”. Andrew Wooyoung Kim (pic) et al.
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Understanding Early Trauma: The case for supporting parent-infant relationships
Understanding of adverse childhood experiences has grown in recent years. We now know more about how external circumstances cause psychological trauma in some children. When we understand early trauma – and the importance of early relationships – we are better able to prevent, and respond to, children’s mental health problems. [Please note that this is an external blog and may not reflect the views of ACAMH]
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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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ACEs – Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are defined as situations that lead to an elevated risk of children and young people experiencing damaging impacts on their health and other social outcomes across the life course.
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Nigerian young people from parentally deprived backgrounds show enhanced working memory capacity
Early adverse rearing can impair cognitive functions in all domains.1 However, those who take an evolutionary–developmental stance propose that there could be adaptive benefits associated with early adverse rearing.2,3
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Dr. Patricia M. Crittenden – ‘Psychological Trauma & Resilience: A Strengths Perspective’
Dr. Patricia M. Crittenden gives her lecture on ‘Psychological Trauma & Resilience: A Strengths Perspective’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org with the day and time you watch it, so we can check the analytics, and we’ll email you your certificate.
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In Conversation… Dr. Karen Treisman
Karen discusses areas of trauma and trauma enforcing models, parenting, adversity (ACE’s) and attachment, and using a range of creative therapeutic approaches with families. Includes transcription, and links.
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Increasing knife crime: Aggressive Adolescents or Traumatized Teenagers?
Georgia Harvey discusses the link between anxiety, trauma and knife crime in young people.
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Dr. Dora Black, world renowned expert in child bereavement and trauma
To celebrate International Women’s Day we caught up with ACAMH’s longest serving female member, retired child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Dora Black, who joined ACAMH in 1965.
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