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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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World Mental Health Day 2021: Mental Health in an Unequal World
The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’. Our Vision is ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and to this end we urge you to take a look at the learning opportunities on our website and to share with your networks.
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Ask the Expert ‘Screen Time & Mental Health – Balancing the positive with the negative’ recorded lecture
Aimed at teachers, this session from Dr. Max Davie offers insights into the latest evidence-base, together with practical advice to help you help your pupils.
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Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire
For this session we welcomed Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’. First published: 30 March 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Mental Health in Lockdown and its Impact on Children, Adolescents and Families – In Conversation with Dr. Polly Waite
In this podcast we talk to Dr. Polly Waite about her research on anxiety in adolescents, the Co-Space study on how families are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her recent JCPP Advances paper.
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Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire
FREE informal journal club ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’.
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The developmental origins of genetic factors influencing language and literacy: Associations with early‐childhood vocabulary – Dr. Ellen Verhoef and Dr. Beate St Pourcain
Video abstract from Dr. Ellen Verhoef and Dr. Beate St Pourcain from their JCPP paper ‘The developmental origins of genetic factors influencing language and literacy: Associations with early‐childhood vocabulary’.
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The demand for CYP mental health during Covid “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis” – Professor Bernadka Dubicka
In this podcast Bernadka explains what can be done to translate research into practice, and what mental health professionals can do to influence policy. She details the key points of evidence she put across to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on Children and Young People’s Mental Health, including integrated care as being essential. She also elaborates on describing the increasing demand for children and young people’s mental health during the Covid pandemic as “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis”.
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Too young to be worried? – Inaugural ACAMH India virtual conference
We are delighted to bring to you the FREE event ‘Too young to be worried?’ the Inaugural ACAMH India virtual conference. Hear from some of India’s most respected and renowned figures in child and adolescent mental health, leading lights from the UK, and ACAMH’s Board. NB Live streamed from India, times are Indian Standard Time.
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