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FREE webinar ‘OpenHouse on Autism’ – Managing your child’s ‘back to school’ anxiety
FREE webinar! Join our host Emma Woodhouse, neuro-developmental specialist at Clinical Partners, and autism specialists Dr Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr Marianna Murin, to discover practical actions you can take to help your child.
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Malta ACAMH Branch
We might be the smallest state in the European Union but we are the biggest branch at ACAMH!
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August 2020
This month there has been a renewed focus on the impact of institutional care on children’s development and mental health, following publication of the Lancet Group Commission on this subject.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 08, August 2020
“The role of digital technology in children and young people’s mental health – a triple‐edged sword?” by Chris Hollis, Sonia Livingstone, Edmund Sonuga-Barke
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Conflicts of interest are under-reported in autism early intervention research
Researchers in the USA have studied, for the first time, the types, prevalence and effects of conflicts of interest (COI) in autism early intervention research.
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Should we pay more attention to self-esteem in young people?
Researchers in Bordeaux, France have investigated the association between self-esteem (assessed in adolescence or adulthood), with adult academic and psychosocial outcomes.
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Mental disorders are under researched yet prevalent in children under 7 years
Mira Vasileva and colleagues in Germany and Australia recently compiled a Research Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry on the prevalence of mental disorders in children <7 years old.
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Genetic and environmental influences on callous-unemotional traits vary with age
Research on callous-unemotional (CU) traits explores the relative importance of genetic versus environmental influences on the initial risk and trajectory.
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Challenging Behaviour and Demand Avoidance – Episode 8 ‘Autism a parents guide’ with Dr Ann Ozsivadjian
Ann discusses when challenging behaviour can be deemed as Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), and how to recognise it in an autistic child.
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BRAVE-ONLINE elicits a strong reduction in anxiety for most young people, irrespective of age, sex, type and severity of anxiety and parent mental health
In the wake of the current coronavirus pandemic, more practitioners are turning to online service delivery for children and adolescents in need of mental health support. The recent JCPP publication from Susan Spence and colleagues on internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (iCBT) for anxious children is thus particularly timely.
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