Digital Interventions

Many digital technologies are designed to be used in adjunct to established mental health treatments, not to replace them. Learn more with this Topic Guide.

1 May 2018

Adoption and attachment: A parent’s perspective

Guest blog from Dr Taylor: “I am grateful for the opportunity to recount my experience of inviting a traumatised child into my family. If I can persuade those working in children’s services to change this experience, even for just one family, I will have achieved something worthwhile.”

1 May 2018

Do clinicians and service users share responsibility when making decisions?

The essential elements of shared decision making and what this can look like for CAMHS.

24 April 2018

‘Building psychologically informed Forensic CAMHS’ Dr James Millington

Dr. James Millington on ‘Building psychologically informed Forensic CAMHS’

Recorded on 19 April 2019 at the North West ACAMH Branch as part a conference on Conduct Disorder.

ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

19 April 2018

Gendered Intelligence – helping young trans people

Guest blog from Dr Jay Stewart MBE, CEO and Co-founder of Gendered Intelligence. Gendered Intelligence specialises in supporting young trans and gender questioning people between the ages of 8 and 30.

1 April 2018

Rumination affects mother–infant interactions

1 April 2018

Teaching about Tics

A psychoeducational intervention, in the form of a classroom presentation, can enhance the knowledge and attitudes of peers towards their classmates with Tourette syndrome (TS), according to research by Claire Nussey and colleagues.

1 March 2018

Child & Adolescent Mental Health: Through a digital lens

Despite the significant increase, availability and usage of mobile devices by children and teenagers, there is still a lack of evidence to support their safety or effectiveness with vulnerable populations. 

23 February 2018

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a trans-diagnostic therapeutic approach, belonging to the broad church of cognitive behavioural therapies (CBTs). With the practice of mindfulness as one of its core processes, the aim of ACT is to enable people to move toward a life with meaning and purpose through values-based action. This workshop is the equivalent […]

Event type

Workshop

Location

Bristol

Headlines about children’s mental health can make dispiriting reading for school leaders

The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust was set up in 1997 in memory of Charlie Waller, a young man who took his own life whilst suffering from depression.
Disclaimer: This is an independent blog and ACAMH may not necessarily hold the same views.

9 January 2018