Professor Bernadka Dubicka – Editor in Chief

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hull and York Medical School University of York; Honorary MAHSC Professor, University of Manchester; Consultant, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust; Honorary Consultant, Pennine Care Foundation Trust

Professor Dubicka qualified in medicine and psychology at the University of London, completing child psychiatry training and her thesis in adolescent depression at the University of Manchester. In 2022 she was appointed as a professor at the University of York. She was an adolescent unit consultant for over a decade, and since then has worked as a community consultant. Previously, she was chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child and Adolescent faculty, which involved national policy advisory and media work, as well as leading on the impact of the ecological crisis on mental health and online safety, which are ongoing interests. Her other main research interest is in mood disorders with expertise in large depression trials. She is the chief investigator of the National Institute of Health Research multi-site BAY trial of web-based Behavioural Activation in young people with depression (2022-26). She was appointed as Editor in Chief (EIC) of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal in 2020, having previously been deputy EIC.

Links on ACAMH Website

Podcasts

• The demand for CYP mental health during Covid “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis” – Honorary Professor Dr. Bernadka Dubicka (2021) In this podcast Bernadka explains what can be done to translate research into practice, and what mental health professionals can do to influence policy.
• In Conversation… Dr Bernadka Dubicka (2020) Bernadka discusses the IMPACT study, the use of technology among children and young people, including the positives and negatives of social media. Includes transcription, and links.

Editorials

• CAMH Editorial: Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2023 Editorial: Evidence in the real world – the need for context and the gender gap by Bernadka Dubicka
• CAMH Editorial: Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2022 – Special Issue: Child and Youth Mental Health & The Global Ecological Crisis Editorial: The climate and ecological mental health emergency – evidence and action by Ann Sanson & Bernadka Dubicka
• CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 1, February 2021 Editorial: Evidence, policy and practice – gold standard, good enough or doing it differently? Bernadka Dubicka
• CAMH Editorial: Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2020 Editorial: How in the world are we handling COVID‐19? Bernadka Dubicka & Gabrielle Carlson
• CAMH Editorial: Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2019 Editorial: Screen time, social media and developing brains: a cause for good or corrupting young minds? Bernadka Dubicka, Jennifer Martin, and Joseph Firth
• CAMH Editorial: Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017 “Pharmacotherapy and adolescent depression – an important treatment option” by Bernadka Durbicka & David Brent.

Recorded talks, lectures, and discussions

• CAMH 2023 Lecture CAMH journal 2023 Lecture is a free webinar featuring a series of lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners on key topics in the field of child and adolescent mental health. We are delighted to have a keynote lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot. The event will be hosted by the CAMH journal Editor in Chief Professor Bernadka Dubicka.
• Breaking the Bias: Celebrating Women in CAMH – recording (2022) A panel, chaired by Professor Bernadka Dubicka, looked the challenges women have faced in the CAMH profession, examined how gender bias affects CAMH professionals, and celebrated women’s achievements.
• Hope and courage in the climate crisis – recording (2022) This was the third session celebrating the launch of the CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’ (due to be published in January 2022). ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
• Climate Change Impacting Mental Health – recording (2021) This event discussed the impact climate change is having on young people’s mental health. This is part of a series of events leading up to the CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’, due to be published in January 2022. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

Blogs

• Ideas emerging from week one at COP26 (2021) Professor Bernadka Dubicka, our Editor in Chief of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal (CAMH), and recent chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Faculty RCPsych, has been at COP26. In this blog post Bernadka talks about what she has learned from the first week of the global climate conference.
• Mental Health Act White Paper: potential implications for children and young people (2021) Reforms to the Mental Health Act will affect children and young people detained in hospitals. Susan Walker, Bernadka Dubicka, and David Kingsley discuss recent proposals for reform and consider their implications for children and young people.
• CAMH journal – why you should get involved (2019) Dr Dennis Ougrin, Editor in Chief of the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal and Dr Bernadka Dubicka‏, Deputy Editor in Chief, discuss the future of CAMH and why you should submit papers for consideration.