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World Autism Acceptance Week 2022
This World Autism Acceptance Week (28 March – 3 April), we encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks. Together we can help change attitudes and work towards creating a society that works for autistic children and young people.
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Breaking the Bias: Celebrating Women in CAMH – recording
This International Women’s Day ACAMH celebrated women’s achievements in CAMH, and explored how gender bias affects CAMH professionals. 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. Panel; Dr. Gordana Milavić, Professor Kathy Sylva OBE, Professor Francesca Happé CBE, Dr. Rhonda Boyd, Dr. Praveetha Patalay, Bethany Cliffe, Clara Faria, and Gloria Cheung.
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#UniMentalHealthDay Shaping the Future of Student Mental Health
University Mental Health Day encourages universities, students, and the wider community to work together to improve the university experience; to make mental health a university-wide priority; and to help change the future of student mental health. This University Mental Health Day, we encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks.
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Improving research-informed practice in schools
We have recently launched an initiative aimed at teachers, to enable schools to access and put to use resources that can genuinely make a difference to the mental wellbeing and educational outcomes of young people.
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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022
The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Growing Together’. Our Vision is ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and to this end we urge you to take a look at the learning opportunities on our website and to share with your networks.
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‘NDC Learning Series’ – NDCs in schools
We welcomed Dr. James Galpin with a session that focused on ‘NDCs in schools’. The Chair of this session was Dr. Mark Lovell. This was the fourth of the ‘NDC Learning Series’ aimed at health professionals who come into contact with children and young people who have Neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs).
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Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic
In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Thorhildur Halldorsdottir about her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Are girls struggling more than boys?’.
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Self-harm & Self-Injury – Episode. 9 ‘Autism a parents guide’
For this podcast, focusing on autistic children who harm themselves, we are joined by Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian, and Dr. Penny Williams. This podcast is supported by Clinical Partners.
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Cundill Centre Online Tool for the Treatment of Youth Depression – recording
The Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is proud to launch its free, interactive online tool that summarises best practices for supporting youth as they manage their depression. This is a recording from a session providing for ACAMH on Tuesday 9 November 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 School Closures
The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP Advances paper ‘Covid-19 partial school closures and mental health problems: a cross sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to determine those most at risk’, written by Dr. Karen Mansfield, Associate Professor Mina Fazel, and colleagues.
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