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Falling child psychiatry numbers do not make happy reading
Drop in the number of child psychiatrists from 1,015 full-time equivalent posts in May 2013 down to 948 in May 2017.
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Concerned over Green Paper leaks
Dr Duncan Law on why he’s left so concerned by the recent leaks from the Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) green paper.
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Practicing what we preach
Today is World Mental Health Day, with this year’s theme being mental health in the workplace. I believe the most valuable asset any organisation has are its staff, and their wellbeing should be paramount to every CEO.
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Dyslexia and developmental language disorder: same or different?
Maggie Snowling looks at how we understand the definition, development and relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD).
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Be true to your school
As the start of the academic year, Steve Rippin reflects on CAMHS in schools.
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‘Place2Be: advancing mental health care in schools’ Catherine Roche
Catherine Roche, Chief Executive, Place2Be, recorded on 16 June 2017 at ‘The Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture and Conference; Public mental health for children and young people: addressing mental health needs in schools and communities’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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‘ADHD assessment and brief intervention service for teenagers in CAMHS to provide a multi-disciplinary perspective’ Professor Kapil Sayal, Dr Kate Arron, and Joe Kilgariff
Professor Kapil Sayal, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, spoke with Dr. Kate Arron, Clinical Psychologist, and Joe Kilgariff, Advanced Nurse, on ‘ADHD assessment and brief intervention service for teenagers in CAMHS to provide a multi-disciplinary perspective’. Recorded on 10 March 2017 at the Emanuel Miller memorial lecture and conference on ‘Controversies in ADHD’.
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Sexual Abuse in Children and Young People: Evidence-Based Approaches
This blog explores evidence-based approaches to prevent and intervene in cases of sexual abuse and harmful sexual behavior among children and young people.
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Chronotype and Depression in Adolescence
We know that there is a bidirectional association between sleep duration/quality and depressive symptoms in youth. In adult populations depressive symptoms and circadian rhythms (sleep chronotype) have also been linked. In this paper, we established an association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence, independently of poor sleep and prior mental health difficulties.
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