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Do children with social anxiety disorder benefit from social skills training?
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in children can be difficult to treat, as evidenced by the varied outcomes reported post-treatment.1,2 Although childhood treatments for SAD commonly involve at least some social skills training,3 it isn’t clear whether children with SAD have particular difficulties with social skills. There is therefore a need to better establish whether social skills are an effective target for treating SAD.
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Assessment and Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Children and Adolescents
‘Assessment and Management of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Children and Adolescents’ – Dr. Zoe Ellison-Wright. 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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Do ADHD and ASD symptoms have similar characteristics in childhood and young adulthood?
Lucy Riglin and colleagues in the UK have investigated whether ADHD and ASD traits in young adulthood show similar characteristics to those reported in childhood.
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‘The fear of categories – can we overcome it?’ Professor Dame Uta Frith
Professor Dame Uta Friths delivered this Keynote lecture ‘The fear of categories – can we overcome it?’ on Friday 30 October at the ACAMH Awards.
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Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson ‘How early life experiences of autistic children shape them as autistic adults’ – In Conversation
Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson discusses how children develop and learn, about using technology for learning with augmentative and alternative communication systems, and her work as Director at the Salveson Mindroom Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.
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In Conversation… Assistant Professor Dr. Dienke Bos on Neuroimaging
Dr. Bos looks at the typical development of behavioural control and how this is represented naturally, magnetic resonance imaging to monitor brain changes in relation to childhood development, and where the evidence is that early intervention can slow or reverse damage. Includes transcription, and links.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 06, June 2020
“Some roads less travelled—different routes to understanding the causes of child psychopathology” By Arne Lervåg
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Nip in the Bud – free resources
Our International Development Director, Dr. Gordana Milavic, is a trustee of the charity Nip in the Bud. Their goal is to increase the prospects of early intervention and to reduce the risks of those conditions becoming more serious in later years.
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In Conversation… Prof Angelica Ronald
Professor Angelica Ronald discusses her research and exciting new developments in areas of research methods.
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JCPP Annual Research Review 2020
Free access to the articles included in the JCPP Annual Research Review: “Something new: What’s next for child psychology and psychiatry?”, until the end of February 2020.
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