In Conversation… Dr Emma Sciberras on Sleep and Anxiety in ADHD

Dr Emma Sciberras discusses sleep and anxiety in ADHD, around 70% of children with ADHD will have sleep problems and anxiety can exacerbate ADHD symptoms. Includes transcription, and links.

11 June 2020

Food Sensitivities and Proclivities – Episode 6 ‘Autism, a parents guide’ with Dr. Vicki Ford

Episode 6 with Dr. Vicki Ford looks at food sensitivities and proclivities, how to build a healthy relationship with food whilst understanding the challenges for many autistic children. Includes transcription, and links.

28 May 2020

In Conversation… Complex PTSD with Dr David Turgoose and Dr Simon Wilkinson

David and Simon discuss an emerging area of interest, complex PTSD expanding on the causes and how it differentiates from standard PTSD. Includes transcription, and links.

27 March 2020

‘ADHD and suicidal spectrum behaviors’ Professor Samuele Cortese

In this lecture, Professor Samuele Cortese discusses the recent paper published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 103, August 2019. ‘Association between suicidal spectrum behaviors and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis’ Mathilde Septier, Coline Stordeur, Junhua Zhang, Richard Delorme, Samuele Cortese (2019). 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.

4 April 2019

Dramatherapy: History, Applications and Outcome Measures

Dramatherapist, Kairo Maynard, on the development of dramatherapy and how it can be used to help support young people.

10 August 2018

Help the parents, help the child: Developing support for parents of burn-injured children

Whilst many burns are minor and treated by front line NHS services, approximately 500 children under the age of 16 are admitted to hospital for specialist care every year in the UK.
Disclaimer: This is an independent blog and ACAMH may not necessarily hold the same views.

9 January 2018

Loneliness and Early Career Researchers: An Evidence-Based Perspective

Loneliness is a significant and often overlooked issue among early career researchers (ECRs). This phenomenon can have profound implications for both personal well-being and professional development. Recent studies have highlighted the prevalence of loneliness among academics, particularly those in the early stages of their careers, suggesting that this issue warrants serious attention from both research and policy perspectives.

8 July 2024

Inclusion and Advocacy for Women with ADHD: Addressing Inequities and Challenging Diagnostic Bias on International Women’s Day

March 8th, 2024 is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is “Inspire Inclusion.” Unfortunately, women who hold multiple intersecting identities that are systemically oppressed world-wide are often excluded from discussions. One example includes women who are neurodiverse, and more specifically for this post, women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Women and non-binary folks are often excluded from appropriate diagnosis of ADHD due to bias in providers, boy/men-dominated symptoms in the DSM-5 (Barkley, 2023; Hinshaw et al., 2021), socialization to mask and internalize symptoms, and sexism and other forms of discrimination. As with most discrimination, this is even worse for women with ADHD who also hold other systemically oppressed identities. This blog will focus on how to increase equity for women with ADHD with concrete solutions for multiples systems that affect them.

8 March 2024

Spotlight on Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Awareness Week (26 February – 3 March 2024) is an opportunity to bring a spotlight on eating disorders and to improve awareness of the impact that eating disorder can have on children and young people.

This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we encourage you to explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks.

26 February 2024

JCPP 2023 Special Issue – ‘Innovation in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Interventions’

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) are delighted to announce the JCPP 2023 Special Issue on ‘Innovation in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Interventions’, edited by Paul Ramchandani, Tim Dalgleish, Joan Luby, Bradley Peterson, and Edmund Sonuga-Barke. 

6 December 2023