Children’s Understanding of Depression

Depression is a mental illness that affects children and especially adolescents, however little is known about how children and adolescents understand depression. Gaining an understanding of how children perceive illness can facilitate effective communication with health professionals and children’s active involvement in decision-making about their health.

7 May 2019

Risk of serious harm to self, and others

Risk of serious harm, to self and others, is an important topic to discuss. When should we be concerned, and what can we do? With the rise in the prevalence of mental health difficulties in children and young people, there is an increasing need to recognise the range and degree of risks presented by young […]

Event type

Conference

Location

Southampton

JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 05, May 2019

“The psychopathology p factor: will it revolutionise the science and practice of child and adolescent psychiatry?” by Angelica Ronald

29 April 2019

CAMH Editorial: Volume 24, Issue 2, May 2019

Editorial: Debates in scientific practice
What is the purpose of debates?

12 April 2019

‘The use of Lurasidone in children and adolescents’ Dr. Jonathan Channing

Dr. Jonathan Channing lecture on  The use of Lurasidone in children and adolescents’. This was recorded on 4 April 2019 at the ACAMH Southern Branch Research Day. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

4 April 2019

‘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

JCPP Annual Research Review 2019

Free access to the articles included in the JCPP Annual Research Review, “Developmental perspectives on child psychology and psychiatry”, until the end of April 2019.

1 April 2019

Young people’s lived experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

How do young people really experience living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? What are young people’s understanding of their development of OCD and is there a link to trauma? How do other people’s reactions to the OCD affect the young people? How do young people really feel about the help for OCD in the United Kingdom?

1 April 2019

Working memory deficits may compromise cognitive flexibility in OCD

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by recurrent intrusive thoughts and/or behaviours. These traits imply deficits in cognitive flexibility in affected patients, but it is unclear at what stage of information processing these deficits might emerge. To address this question, Nicole Wolff and colleagues asked 25 adolescents with OCD and 25 matched healthy controls to complete a computer-based task switching paradigm.

29 March 2019

Cognitive flexibility in OCD: challenging the paradigm

Data from a new study by Nicole Wolff and colleagues suggest that cognitive flexibility can be better in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) than typically developing controls.

29 March 2019