‘Teens, Tics, and Tech’ – Camilla Babbage ‘In Conversation Tourettes Syndrome’

‘In Conversation Tourettes Syndrome’ kicks off with Camilla Babbage, PhD researcher in Applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham, giving an overview of the development an App for young people with tics, with the specific aim of improving wellbeing.

26 August 2020

May 2020 – The Bridge

Includes general ‘Mental Health in Deaf Children’ and ‘Accessing good communication – Deaf children in a mental health assessment’

7 May 2020

Christian Boakye: What it’s like to be a Speech and Language Therapist

Christian Boakye shares some of his working life as a Speech and Language Therapist working in young offenders institutes.

2 April 2020

Gillian Davies: What it’s like to be a Speech and Language Therapist

Gillian Davies talks about what it’s like to be a speech and language therapist in the Evelina London Community Speech and Language Therapy service (Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust)

2 April 2020

Can transdiagnostic CBT improve outcomes in children with ASD?

Transdiagnostic interventions apply the same underlying treatment principles across mental disorders, research in relation to ASD

27 March 2020

March 2020 – The Bridge

This edition of The Bridge features research digests on ‘FRIENDS’ and anxiety, CAMHS and technology training, OCD and anxiety, parenting, autism and more.

28 February 2020

December 2019 issue – The Bridge

Summaries include; if parental consanguinity predicts the severity of Autistic symptoms; study the transmission of intergenerational anxiety in families; systematic review into the effectiveness of available interventions to treat PTSD; the efficacy of teacher assessments vs exams to assess performance in UK schools; relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and extreme demand avoidance in young people with Autism; and how fluctuations in external environmental noise affect the developing Autonomic Nervous System in babies.

28 November 2019

Assessment and diagnosis in children with neurodevelopmental problems

This conference focusses on assessment and diagnosis in children with neurodevelopmental problems, and is delivered by ACAMH’s Neurodevelopmental Special Interest Group (SIG). Neurodevelopmental disorders are a neglected area of mental health practice, little mentioned in recent government policy documents. The evidence base is strong in theory but often hard to put into practice at the […]

Event type

Conference

Location

London

Identifying imaging biomarkers in the neonatal brain

The past decade has seen great improvements in magnetic resonance imaging technologies, such that it is now possible to image the developing brain in utero. In 2018, Dafnis Batalle and colleagues compiled an Annual Research Review for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, where they evaluated the current status of neuroimaging research in neonates and paediatrics to determine the origins of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.

11 July 2019

What does a CAMHS MDT need to know about the genetics of psychiatric disorder?

Our knowledge of the genetics of psychiatric disorders has increased rapidly in recent years. Discover what has been learnt, focusing on some of the psychiatric disorders commonly seen in CAMHS, before going on to discuss how these findings may be relevant to clinical practice.

11 July 2019