Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
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Eating Disorders and CAMHS – Real Life Insights
Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are not straight forward; to celebrate eating disorder awareness week, we spoke to Marie Young (pic), a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorders Specialist Nurse, and Bea Fenske, an Eating Disorders Nurse, from Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS, to give us an overview of what it is like to work in a Community Eating Disorders Service.
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Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of CAMHS
In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure to discuss her recent CAMH journal paper ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’.
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The Future is CAMHS – Exploring a Career in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (recording)
Recording of why you should consider a career in mental health in India? Mental health problems in childhood can have an immense impact on a child’s development. As a child and adolescent mental health professional, and by helping to identify and treat the mental health problems of young people, not only can you help to improve their quality of life, but you can potentially alter their future for the better.
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Cultural Adaptations to Psychosocial Interventions for Refugee Families
In this podcast we are joined by Dr. Alice Taylor to discuss her co-authored CAMH paper ‘Cultural adaptations to psychosocial interventions for families with refugee/asylum-seeker status in the United Kingdom – a systematic review’.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 63, Issue 05, May 2022
Editorial: ‘The near ubiquity of comorbidity – what are the implications for children’s mental health research and practice?’ by Helen L. Fisher
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Service improvement and research: Innovation and new challenges in CAMHS – recording
Southern Branch event that showcased the innovative models of care in the region featuring neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health difficulties.
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CAMH services, integrative methods, and quality improvement
In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Sundar Gnanavel, winner of ACAMH’s 2021 Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year Award, about teaching clinical psychiatry, the use of integrative methods, CAMH services, and quality improvements.
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Stephen Scott: We neglect children’s mental health at our peril
“Health and happiness”, isn’t that what we ask for? But what is the point of being physically well if we are miserable and don’t have a good life?
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‘Creative approaches to developing skills for future CAMHS professionals’ In conversation with Dr. Carlos Hoyos
In this podcast we talk to Dr. Carlos Hoyos, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, undergraduate lead for psychiatry at the University of Southampton and ACAMH’s 2020 winner of the David Cottrill Education of CAMH Professionals Award.
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What do young patients need when transitioning from child to adult mental health services?
Researchers have examined the ethical values that people expect to underpin the transition from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS).
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