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.

4 November 2021

Conflating risk and mental illness

In this thoughtful article, a young person, Anna, reflects on her experience of risk being conflated with mental illness in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), highlighting crucial lessons for clinicians, commissioners, and policy makers.

21 October 2021

Are ACE scores useful for identifying individuals at risk of health problems?

Clinics are increasingly screening for ACEs, but ACE scores may not tell us who will go on to develop poor health, explain Jessie R Baldwin (pic) and Andrea Danese.

21 October 2021

Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health

The ecological crisis is having a significant impact on our mental health, in particular young people. There is an ongoing debate whether this topic should be front and centre for mental health professionals, and those that work with children. What do they need to be doing? What do young people think? How can we work together? As the world focuses on COP26, we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals and young people.

Location

Online

Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire

For this session we welcomed Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’. First published: 30 March 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

14 September 2021

Autism and Eating Disorders – CAMHS around the Campfire

FREE informal journal club ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Dr. Francesca Solmi, UCL, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Trajectories of autistic social traits in childhood and adolescence and disordered eating behaviours at age 14 years: A UK general population cohort study’.

Event type

Informal Journal Club

Location

LIVE STREAM

Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire

FREE informal journal club ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’.

Event type

Live Stream

Location

Online

Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety – CAMHS around the Campfire recording

For this session we welcomed Professor Thalia Eley, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics, KCL, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety: results from a prospective twin and sibling study.’ ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

22 July 2021

‘Adolescent and maternal mental health before and during the pandemic’ – In Conversation Dr. Nicola Wright

This episode of our JCPP Advances series that focus on the papers and editors featured in the publication is with Dr. Nicola Wright, research associate at the department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Kings College London. Nicola discusses her paper ‘Interplay between long-term vulnerability and new risk: Young adolescent and maternal mental health immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic’.

25 June 2021

Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety – CAMHS around the Campfire

FREE virtual journal club ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Professor Thalia Eley to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Aetiology of shame and its association with adolescent depression and anxiety: results from a prospective twin and sibling study.’ ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a CPD certificate.

Event type

Live Stream

Location

Online