Dimensions of cognition, behaviour, and mental health in struggling learners: A spotlight on girls

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Gender biases to stereotypically male behaviours are prevalent among practitioners, even when the focus is on identifying cognitive and learning difficulties. This underscores the need to include cognitive and female-representative criteria in diagnostic systems to identify girls whose difficulties could go easily undetected.” Jacalyn Guy (pic) et al.

11 October 2022

Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children’s emotional problems at 2 years

Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Rates of help-seeking among fathers is low, possibly due to conceptualising their own difficulties as stress rather than problems with mood”. Fiona L. Challacombe (pic) et al.

10 October 2022

Working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People – recording

This free session was the first of ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group Monthly seminars, it discussed ‘Working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People’. Presentations were from Dr. Ana Draper and Elisa Marcellino, Dr. Arnon Bentovim, Carol Jolliffe, and Sue Holmes.

10 October 2022

Research Review: Seven reasons why binary diagnostic categories should be replaced with empirically sounder and less stigmatizing dimensions

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “An ongoing positive revolution advocates a new approach to the individual differences in human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that cause distress and impair functioning”. Benjamin B. Lahey (pic) et al.

9 October 2022

ACAMH Awards 2022 Nominees Shortlist

It is our great pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2022 ACAMH Awards. See who made the nominees shortlist for the 2022 ACAMH Awards.

7 October 2022

Nuts and Bolts of Pediatric Psychopharmacology and management of Psychosis in children

This event is part of ACAMH India’s FREE webinar series that aims to enhance learning of child and adolescent mental health. We have planned this event to enable practical insights in the area of Paediatric Psychopharmacology for trainee and practising psychiatrists. The content will be primarily practice focused with additional research evidence relevant to clinical practice.

Event type

Live Stream

Location

Live stream from India

Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of CAMHS

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure to discuss her recent CAMH journal paper ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’.

6 October 2022

Emotionally based school avoidance

School, the best days of your life! Are they? This FREE session looks at Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) a term used to describe young people who have difficulty attending school due to emotional needs.

ADHD and Sleep – Episode 3 ‘ADHD, A Young Person’s Guide’

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. This episode focuses on ADHD and sleep, and Blandine is joined by Emily El-Bahrawy, a young person with lived experience of ADHD, and Helen Tracey, a sleep practitioner with Parenting Special Children.

We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

4 October 2022

ADHD, A Young Person’s Guide

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

28 September 2022