Children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health also often struggle with their sleep. Indeed disrupted or altered sleep has been associated with most psychiatric disorders (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Although a range of sleep difficulties can co-occur with mental health problems, a common difficulty is insomnia. As such this guidance will primarily focus on difficulties with getting to sleep and staying asleep.
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Psychosis; Schizophrenia, Hearing Voices, and the Language of ‘Madness’ – recording
Delegates only currently have access to this. This webinar brings together current research, looks at understanding of the concept of psychosis, assessing and managing it, along with exploring the appropriateness of using diagnostic labels and the impact of language in mental healthcare.
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CAMH 2023 Lecture
FREE event. CAMH journal 2023 Lecture is a free webinar featuring a series of lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners on key topics in the field of child and adolescent mental health. We are delighted to have a keynote lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot. The event will be hosted by the CAMH journal Editor in Chief Professor Bernadka Dubicka.
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- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream
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Validation of the Parental Understanding and Misperceptions about BAby’s Sleep Questionnaire using auto-videosomnography
Paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study aimed to (a) develop an assessment tool measuring parental understanding and misperceptions about baby’s sleep (PUMBA-Q); (b) validate the questionnaire using self-report and objective sleep measures.’ Eunyeong Jang et al.
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Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We used a prospective longitudinal design in infants with a family history of ASD and/or ADHD to examine infant sleep and its relation to trajectories of attention and later neurodevelopmental disorders.’ Jannath Begum-Ali et al.
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Clinical Review: Sleep disturbance as transdiagnostic mediator between adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in children and adolescents: A structural equation modeling meta-analysis
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The present study used a novel two-stage meta-analytic structural equation model to investigate whether ACEs predict psychopathology through sleep disturbance’. Jianlin Liu et al.
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Melatonin use and the risk of self-harm and unintentional injuries in youths with and without psychiatric disorders
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study investigated whether melatonin, which is the most common medication for sleep disturbances in youth in Sweden, is associated with a decreased risk of injury. Analyses were stratified by sex, injury type, psychiatric comorbidities and age at melatonin-treatment initiation’. Marica Leone (pic) et al.
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Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries, Cambridge study argues
Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. And paying greater attention to hunter-gatherer childhoods may help economically developed countries improve education and wellbeing. JCPP Editorial from Dr Nikhil Chaudhary, and Dr Annie Swanepoel.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 64, Issue 02, February 2023
Editorial: ‘Therapies for mental health difficulties: finding the sweet spot between standardization and personalization’ by Alice M. Gregory, Martin K. Rutter, Juan J. Madrid-Valero, Sophie D. Bennett, Roz Shafran, Daniel J. Buysse.
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I hate Mondays! – Why children and young people don’t go to school, and how to support them
BOOKINGS CLOSED. Organised by the ACAMH Scotland Branch this session will look at the complex factors contributing to pupils’ non-attendance at school.
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- Talk with Q&A
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Benefits of the Outdoors on Well-Being & Mental Health
Bookings are closed. The aim of this online conference is to explore and learn about the benefits of the outdoors and nature on well-being. A further aim is to encourage delegates to reflect on how these topics may apply to their professional approaches with young people and own personal well-being.
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- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM