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ACAMH Awards 2023 Nominees Long list
See who made the nominees longlist for the 2023 ACAMH Awards.
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Health inequalities, children and young people – Professor Sir Michael Marmot
This lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot ‘Health inequalities, children and young people’ was the keynote from the 2023 CAMH Lecture.
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CAMH 2023 Lecture recording
The CAMH 2023 Lecture featured a series of lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners on key topics in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
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Covid-19’s impact on Loneliness and Mental Health: A Study of Schizotypal Traits and Paranoia
The Covid pandemic lockdown has affected us differently, with some people being impacted more than others. Extensive research has indicated that lockdowns – which broadly include isolation measures, such as, in the UK, being required to stay at home unless for essential reasons – have disproportionately impacted individuals with higher levels of paranoia.
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Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy – recording
We were delighted to welcome Professor Roz Shafran (pic) and Dr. Sophie Bennett to present up to date outcome data of the ‘M.I.C.E—Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy’ study.
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JCPP Annual Research Review 2023
We are delighted to announce the release of the 2023 Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) Annual Research Review, edited by Sara R. Jaffee.
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Stress, adversity, COVID; caring for children with an intellectual disability (recording)
This free webinar was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group Monthly seminars. In this session we welcomed Dr. Jeanne Wolstencroft, Research Fellow at the Great Ormond Street UCL Population, Policy and Practice Dept., presenting findings from The IMAGINE—ID consortium.
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Autism Resources Update
This World Autism Acceptance Week (27 March to 2 April 2023), we have collated a number of FREE learning resources from leading academics, clinicians, and researchers to build upon our previous catalogue of resources for World Autism Acceptance Week 2022.
We encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website, sign up for our fantastic upcoming events below, and do share with your networks.
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Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries, Cambridge study argues
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. And paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing. JCPP Editorial from Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, and Dr Annie Swanepoel.
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How England’s calorie labelling policy is impacting young people
Last year the government introduced the out-of-home calorie labelling policy in England to help people make informed nutritional decisions as part of a broader strategy to reduce rates of obesity. However, little is known about how this policy impacts young people’s mental health, especially those with lived experience of eating disorders. Here we summarise the existing research and highlight areas for further investigation.
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