Autism Symposium

We were delighted to stage this Autism Symposium thanks to the support of our publishers Wiley. The evening had a series of 20-minute lectures that then lead into a panel discussion. Lectures and discussions included the role of research in autism, including pathways to mental health problems in ASD, and the wider landscape. The evening was […]

Event type

Twilight Meeting

Location

London

Mental Health in Schools

Blogs about mental health in schools from the March 2018 issue of The Bridge, ACAMH’s journal of secondary publication.

19 March 2018

Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture

Thanks for attending our livestream of the Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference 2018 – Focusing on Adolescent Mental Health. If you would like more of the very best research in child and adolescent mental health, join us for a FREE webinar on the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry’s Annual Research Review. You may also be […]

15 March 2018

In Conversation… Happiness in Schools

Dr John Ivens talks to ACAMH about the role of schools in mental health provision, the Government’s green paper on children and young people’s mental health, and assessing students’ experiences of happiness in schools in order to develop personalised approaches.

12 March 2018

Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference 2018 – Focusing on Adolescent Mental Health

6 March 2018

With Parents in Mind: Can shared decision making support parents at CAMHS?

Exploring shared decision making as a triad relationship between clinicians, children and parents where clinicians and service users (i.e. children and parents) share the information when faced with the task of making decisions, and where service users are supported to consider options to achieve informed preferences, may be of value.

6 March 2018

In Conversation… Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

In conversation with Dr Duncan Gillard, Senior Educational Psychologist and an experienced ACT practitioner, trainer and author. Duncan is the co-author of the popular self-help book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Dummies.

5 March 2018

Schools need more specialist support

Schools have a central role in supporting young people with mental health problems, but the level of and type of support available to affected students is unclear. A convenience sample survey of 577 school staff from 341 schools in England has shed light on this issue.

1 March 2018

Worth-it: focussing on positive mental health, resilience and wellbeing interventions

‘Worth-it’ is a social enterprise dedicated to delivering resilience and wellbeing intervention programmes to children in schools. The interventions and training courses are underpinned by the principles of ‘Positive Psychology’ which is defined as the scientific study of positive human functioning.

1 March 2018

Supporting Mental Health in Schools and Colleges – a summary of UK Department of Education’s report

In a 2017 summary report*, the UK Department of Education set out the findings of its research into what English schools and colleges are currently doing to support students with mental health needs and their efforts to promote positive mental health and wellbeing amongst pupils, and their experiences of putting such provisions into practice.

1 March 2018