Parenting
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Depressed mothers and their offspring differ in terms of health risk profiles and allostatic load
Allostatic load is essentially the “wear and tear” that accumulates in the body in individuals exposed to chronic stress. Because some patients with psychiatric disorders have a shorter lifespan than their healthy counterparts,1 some researchers have suggested that there might be a link between disorders such as depression and increased allostatic load.
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PCIT-ED seems to improve parenting behaviour and affect towards children with depression
Data from a new study show that parenting behaviour and affect improved after completing a dyadic parent–child treatment for depression in young children (aged 3-6 years).
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Is formal processing through the juvenile justice system linked with an increased risk of reoffending?
Data from a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry support that formally processing adolescents through the juvenile justice system after their first arrest for a mild-to-moderate crime is linked with an increased risk of reoffending.
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ACAMH President Professor Kathy Sylva elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy
We are absolutely delighted to announce that ACAMH President Professor Kathy Sylva OBE has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy.
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Roy Broadfield ‘Parental Engagement, home learning and educating in an unprecedented landscape…’
Slides and transcript available. This was a live webinar recorded on Wednesday 8 July 2020 for ACAMH West Midlands Branch. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Shining a light on the injustice of institutionalization and the damage it causes to children – to promote care reform across the globe
Led by 22 of the world’s leading experts on reforming care for children, The Lancet Commission on Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation of Children includes a review and meta-analysis of the effects of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation on children’s development, and makes 14 policy recommendations addressed to policymakers at all levels. The Commission was chaired by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London who leads the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) Project.
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Boys and girls show different vulnerabilities to maternal postnatal depression
Findings suggest that prenatal anxiety and depression confer risk in different ways in boys and girls, and later work confirmed that there might be sex differences in the biological underpinning of psychopathology.
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Suicidal ideation in children: is it written all over their face?
A study recently published in the JCPP, has investigated how suicidal thoughts might develop in childhood, focusing on the parent–child relationship.
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Where is the I in CAMHS?
“As we enter Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, I argue that policymakers, commissioners and service providers must start thinking infant, children and young people’s mental health.”
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‘Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms’
Video abstract from author Yasmin Ahmadzadeh summarising her paper published in the JCPP, ‘Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms’
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