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The Bridge is back!
We are honoured to spend some time talking with Dr. Steph Lewis, a Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, and Editor of The Bridge, about the exciting new relaunch of ACAMH’s magazine, The Bridge.
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Engaging with UK Parliament on child and adolescent mental health research and policy
Researchers and expert practitioners can contribute to parliamentary work to inform policy-making. Sarah Bunn and Stephanie J Lewis describe why engaging with Parliament is important and explain how this can be done.
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The Sustainability of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme: Insights from UK Primary School Teachers
The current youth mental health crisis highlights the need for preventive and early intervention strategies like the Incredible Years programmes. The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management programme has shown positive effects on teachers’ classroom management strategies and pupil mental health. In this blog, we discuss teachers’ views on the sustainability of the programme, necessary to maintain its desired benefits in the longer term.
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CAMHS around the Campfire journal club – ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education (recording)
For this session we are pleased to welcome Hans Fredrik Sunde, from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, to discuss his JCPP Advances paper ‘The ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education: A prospective sibling-comparison register study of 344,152 Norwegian adolescents’.
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NICE guidelines for self-harm: a new school of thought
New NICE guidelines for the management of self-harm in the UK emphasise the important role of non-specialists. In this article, Holly Crudgington and Dennis Ougrin discuss this guidance, focusing on the new advice for schools and its implications.
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Ecological Crisis and the Impact on Mental Health – recording
This was the first in a series of events leading up to our CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’, to be published in January 2022. This session was recorded on Tuesday 9 November 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Genetics research informing mental health care
Anita Thapar discusses that genetic studies of mental health have revealed important insights about the influence of genes and the environment, and the nature of disorders. She explains how these insights could improve mental health care for young people and their families now and in the future.
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Mental Health Act White Paper: potential implications for children and young people
Reforms to the Mental Health Act will affect children and young people detained in hospitals. Susan Walker, Bernadka Dubicka, and David Kingsley discuss recent proposals for reform and consider their implications for children and young people.
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The effect of smartphone use on parenting – ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’
This session discussed ‘The effect of smartphone use on parenting’, with the focus on Dr. Kathryn Modecki and her paper in JCPP ‘Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: a multiverse analysis.’ first published 07 July 2020. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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ADHD in CYP with autism, and pharmacological treatment ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’
This session we are discussing ADHD in children and young people with autism, in relation to pharmacological treatment, with the focus on Dr. Stephanie Ameis’ in JCPP ‘Practitioner Review: Pharmacological treatment of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in children and youth with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta‐analysis’ first published 26 August 2020. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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