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Most Popular Content of 2019
We’ve collated the most popular online content, from our website, of 2019. We would like to thank all of our collaborators who are helping us in ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’.
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Self-harm in children and adolescents: attention seeking or cause for concern?
Is the reporting of self-harm improving due to better awareness, or are young people really self-harming at increasing rates? How concerned should we be about the increase? In this blog, I draw on recent work by my colleagues in the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England.
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Valuing the work of therapy: how to take real value into account
What is the gap between what we value in the work of therapy, and how we measure it? How as a society do we evaluate the worth of child therapy compared to the tangible results we’re used to measuring.
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Why it’s good to ban smacking
I remember going to an international conference on child abuse and neglect many years ago and thinking before I went, that the UK was pretty far ahead in terms of the services we offer. I was shocked when one presentation went through some of the evidence on how smacking is related to physical abuse, and how many countries in the world allowed it.
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2019 Judy Dunn National Conference ‘Suicide and self-harm in young people’ – Prof. Christian Schmahl
The 2019 Judy Dunn Conference focused on ‘Suicide and self-harm in young people’. Prof. Christian Schmahl on the ‘Neurobiology of self-harm in BPD’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org with the day and time you watch it, so we can check the analytics, and we’ll email you your certificate.
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Prof. Paramala J Santosh ‘Mobile applications and wearable devices in assessing suicide risk’
ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org with the day and time you watch it, so we can check the analytics, and we’ll email you your certificate.
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Why it’s time to ACE the way we measure the bad things that happen to children
There is no magic wand to stop bad things happening, but how we measure the impact of those bad things is absolutely key to helping these children fare better.
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World Mental Health Day 2019: focus on Suicide Prevention
The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is suicide and suicide prevention. 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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How does diagnosis and formulation fit together – when do you choose which? Dr Lauren Breese
Recorded lecture from Dr Lauren Breese our event ‘Assessment and diagnosis in children with neurodevelopmental problems’ on 7 October 2019. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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In Conversation… Suicide and Self-harm with Dr Abigail Russell
Abigail discusses her paper on inflammation and self-harm, its findings and implications moving forward. As well as the cohort study (ALSPAC), to school interventions and creating change through national dialogue.
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