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Mental Health Literacy and Adolescent Help-seeking Intentions

In this Papers Podcast , Dr. Claire Goodfellow, Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, discusses her CAMH paper ‘Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking intentions’. Discussion points include; Looking at the increased ability to identify specific mental health problems associated with decreased formal, and informal, help-seeking intentions. How can information relating to effective treatment be better disseminated to young people?

Nominate your mental health hero

5th Annual ACAMH Awards recognise high quality work in evidence-based science, both in publication and practice, in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

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Upcoming Webinars

Webinars are centred around evidence-based research and speakers are some of the leading lights in the field. Delegates have exclusive access to recordings and slides for 90 days after the event, plus a personalised CPD certificate via email. For a full list visit the website.

Tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - The 2023 Jack Tizard Memorial International Conference

The idea of taking stock, and reviewing our thinking about Adversity, Trauma and the mental health and well-being of children and young people is a timely theme. We are seeing an exponential rise and persistence of children and young people’s mental health problems – associated with exposure to the extreme adversity the disruption their lives of the pandemic, the cost of living crisis, effects of wars, refugee crises, earthquakes, and climate events. Join this amazing line-up; Prof. Mark Bellis, Prof. David Finkelhor, Prof. Judith Cohen, Prof. Andrea Danese, Dr. Jessie Baldwin, Dr. Alan Meehan, Dr. Fiona Turner, Dr. Kirsten Asmussen, Gary Kainth, and Joanne Hopkins. EARLY BIRD ENDS NEXT WEEK! See website for full details and booking

Psychosis; Schizophrenia, Hearing Voices, and the Language of ‘Madness’

Dr. Eleanor Longden, Nathan Filer, and Dr. Marinos Kyriakopoulos. Plus just added to the line-up Prof. Sophie Parker on ‘Non pharmacological treatments’. See website for full details and booking

What the research tells us; Anxiety, Neurodiversity, Suicide, and Genetics

FREE TO ALL! Over 600 people have already signed up. Don’t miss; Prof. Thalia Eley, Dr. Polly Waite, Dr. Lucy Livingston, Dr. Aja Murray, and Dr. Pablo Vidal-Ribas. Register now

Featured Papers

Some highlights from our three journals JCPP, CAMH, and JCPP Advances. Each one of the posts below provides a link to read, and download the full paper.

JCPP Advances – ‘As there is a growing evidence base, this systematic review sought to identify, describe and evaluate dramatherapy with children and adolescents who were experiencing emotional distress (anxiety, depression and trauma) in order to inform future research in this area’. Eleanor Keiller

CAMH journal – ‘Using semi-structured interview methods and reflexive thematic analysis, this study explores how 24 young people aged 16–24 in Scotland, UK made sense of their lived experiences of suicidal thoughts and feelings, self-harm, and suicide attempts.’ Hazel Marzetti

JCPP – ‘In their Annual Research Review, Oldehinkel & Ormel argue that psychological and psychiatric researchers should not only compare groups but also focus on the within-person variability using repeated measurements in longitudinal studies to advance our understanding of emotional and behavioral problems. I argue adopting such within-person approaches might also change how we think about causality and might lead us to more successful intervention research.’ Henning Tiemeier