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Self-harm in children and adolescents: attention seeking or cause for concern?
Is the reporting of self-harm improving due to better awareness, or are young people really self-harming at increasing rates? How concerned should we be about the increase? In this blog, I draw on recent work by my colleagues in the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England.
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Prof. Paramala J Santosh ‘Mobile applications and wearable devices in assessing suicide risk’
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… Professor Lucy Bowes on early life stress
Professor Lucy Bowes, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and Head of the oRANGE Lab, discusses her research on early life stress in relation to psychological and behavioural development, the impact of bullying in adolescents, together with exciting developments with virtual reality.
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In Conversation…Addiction and Substance Use with Ian Hamilton
Ian Hamilton and Jo Carlowe discuss mental health problems and substance use co-occurring, the lack of data on young people’s substance use and risk factors and pathways to support.
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In Conversation… Prof. Roz Shafran
Professor Roz Shafran covers a range of subjects on mental health, including looking at the work her and her team undertake at Great Ormond Street Hospital. This includes innovations such a mental health ‘booth’ for children and families. Roz also looks at the rise of dysfunctional perfectionism
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In Conversation… Suicide and Self-harm with Dr Abigail Russell
Abigail discusses her paper on inflammation and self-harm, its findings and implications moving forward. As well as the cohort study (ALSPAC), to school interventions and creating change through national dialogue.
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Good intentions, good enough?
Daniel Brennan, Assistant Psychologist at Ealing Intensive Therapeutic and Short Break Service (ITSBS) provides a summary of Lenehan, C. and Geraghty, M. (2017) “Good intentions, good enough?: a review of the experiences and outcomes of children and young people with learning disabilities in residential special schools and colleges”,
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Professor Keith Hawton ‘Self-harm in children and adolescents: a major health and social problem of our time’ – Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture and National Conference 2019
Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture: Professor Keith Hawton ‘Self-harm in children and adolescents: a major health and social problem of our time’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org
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In Conversation… Psychosis with Dr. Helen Fisher
Discover how Helen Fisher is involving immersive art to raise awareness of psychosis in young people.
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In Conversation… Eating Disorders with Dr. Dasha Nicholls
In this podcast, Dr. Dasha Nicholls talks about eating and feeding disorders in children and young people.
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