Parenting

  • A harsh parenting team?

    Guest blog from Dr Rachel Latham, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College London on whether high quality coparenting can buffer children’s behaviour from the negative impact of harsh parenting.

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    ‘The costs of Conduct Disorder and evidence for parenting interventions’ Madeline Marczak

    Madeline Marczak on ‘The costs of Conduct Disorder and evidence for parenting interventions’. Recorded on 19 April 2019 at the North West ACAMH Branch as part of a conference on Conduct Disorder. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

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  • Conduct Disorder

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    Current members will need to be registered as a website user and log in, our guide to this simple process can be accessed here.

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  • 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.

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  • A postcard from Malta

    A postcard from Malta

    “It’s all to do with education and standards, and trying to bridge that gap”

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  • The Parent Blame Game

    Seventy years ago Leo Kanner published his seminal paper describing autism. In that paper he also coined the term “refrigerator mother” apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices.

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    JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2017

    “Science unskewed – acknowledging and reducing ‘risk of bias’ in parenting research” by Edmund Sonuga-Barke

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