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(IDID A2H©) Identification of Intellectual Disabilities Framework (Children, Young People and Adults) – Dr. Mark Lovell
This talk from Dr. Mark Lovell, dual-trained Consultant Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatrist, and ACAMH Director CPD and Training forms part of our free Intellectual Disabilities topic guide.
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Does early androgen exposure contribute to autistic traits?
Researchers in Hong Kong and Cambridge have explored the influence of early androgen exposure on autistic traits during childhood.
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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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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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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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December 2019 The Bridge Editorial
It has been 2 years since The Bridge was relaunched in its current form. Each monthly themed edition publishes summaries of selected papers from the ACAMH journals – JCPP and CAMH – and occasionally features guest research digests. Over the past two years we have covered a huge range of topics and published over 170 research summaries and counting.
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ASD and OCD
This edition of ‘The Bridge’ focusses on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Both of these can resemble each other with the over-focus, special interests and anxieties seen in ASD resembling the obsessions of OCD, and the routines, rituals and need for order and sameness that can be seen in ASD resembling the compulsions in OCD.
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Dysregulation profile risk may be identified in infancy
The “dysregulation profile” (DP) describes a child psychopathology construct that measures broad-based, generalised emotional and behavioural dysregulation using the Child Behaviour Checklist
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