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If you’re living, teaching, or working with an autistic teenager, you’ve probably, at some point said ‘Uplifting’. ‘Hilarious’. ‘Rewarding’. You’ve also most likely said something like; ‘Challenging’. ‘A struggle’. ‘Testing’.?
Autistic children and teenagers vary considerably in their individual strengths and difficulties (SIGN 2016), with many having co-existing conditions which can make getting the right support more challenging (Maskey 2013).
They often grapple with intense emotions like anxiety, stress, depression, and anger. Even minor triggers, can lead to meltdowns. After school, they may come home utterly exhausted, needing significant time alone to recuperate. There are several common challenges faced by autistic teenagers, and by having a better understanding of these you can develop a clearer plan to offer even better support than you are now.
Professor Tony Attwood and Dr. Michelle Garnett look at some of these common challenges
Dimitris Tsomokos holds MPhys and PhD degrees in physics and is currently completing a conversion MSc degree in psychology (University of Glasgow). He kindly blogged for us about his recent JCPP Advances paper ‘Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study’.
We know that there is a bidirectional association between sleep duration/quality and depressive symptoms in youth. In adult populations depressive symptoms and circadian rhythms have also been linked. In this paper, we established an association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence, independently of poor sleep and prior mental health difficulties.
In our study we relied on a large sample of over 11,300 teenagers from the Millennium Cohort Study. Depressive symptoms were measured through the well-validated Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire with 13 self-report items. The result of our analysis was a very robust association between chronotype and depressive symptoms at age 14, after controlling for prior mental health difficulties, poor sleep, and a range of other confounders.
ACAMH Awards 2024 open for nominations
Nominations are already coming in for the ACAMH Awards 2024. We urge you to self nominate, and to nominate colleagues. Deadline is Wednesday 31 July. The ten categories include; Rising Star, Team Awards, Trainee Awards, Digital Awards, Translational Research Into Practice, Education of CAMH Professionals.
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YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH to nominate yourself and be nominated. Banish that imposter syndrome.
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In this new Papers Podcast Dr. Matti Cervin Associate Professor at Lund University, discusses his JCPP paper ‘Efficacy and acceptability of cognitive-behavioral therapy and serotonin reuptake inhibitors for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a network meta-analysis’.
Discussion points include: Importance of examining efficacy and acceptability of CBT and serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the context of the pediatric population. The two domains of treatments that have an evidence base for paediatric OCD – CBT and medication. Different forms of CBT delivery – in-person, remote, and internet. Implications for policymakers and child and adolescent mental health professionals.
EVENTS
You DO NOT have to be an ACAMH Member to come to our events. All ACAMH webinars are centred around evidence-based research, and our speakers are some of the leading lights in the field. ACAMH is a charity, and we receive no government funding, nor do we ask for donations. We try to keep our costs as low as possible. Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’.
Can’t make it on the day? Don’t worry! Delegates have exclusive access to recordings and slides for 90 days after the event, plus a personalised CPD certificate via email.
First of four Professor Tony Attwood session from just ￡30
Learning outcomes; Facilitate social cohesion, acceptance by peers and a positive sense of self. Help autistic adolescents cope with increased stress and exhaustion. Explore aspects of sexuality. Effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be applied in the home, classroom, and social situations.
20 June, 9am-12pm, UK time. Full details online
2024 Jack Tizard Memorial International Conference
Thursday 27 and Friday 28 June 1:00-4:30pm UK time.?
Learning objectives; Taking a transdiagnostic perspective. Adapt practices in high income countries to meet the needs of our communitiesrces. Novel interventions for children, parents, and schools. Lessons for cultural competency when interrogating a global approach. How to work in partnership with scholars and practitioners globally. How to provide appropriate care in the context of multiple intersectional disadvantages.
FREE
Led by?Professor Heather Forkey and Dr. Jessica Griffin, Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts. 11 June, 5-6:30pm, UK time. See website for details and registration.
Professor Tony Attwood webinar on Autism
Learning objectives; How and why special interests develop. Building self-confidence with the special interest. Making positive use to empower, inspire, and engage. Dispelling myths with evidence-based facts. Reduce meltdowns when the special interest isn’t available. Incorporating special interests into the curriculum. Effective management techniques to make life less stressful. Easy strategies that make a real difference to peoples lives.
2 July, 9am-12pm, UK time. Full details online
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Dave Smallman and Dr. Anu Devanga ‘Care Co-ordination in busy teams – using a caseload review process to manage differing demands and identify trends in core work’. Jacqui Tyson and Megan Fowler – ‘Addressing unscheduled care through Support Time and Recovery Workers (STaR), Improving service users journey in CAMHS’. 3 July, 1-3pm, UK time. See website for details and registration.
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Learning objectives; Discover if outdoor based intervention evidence demonstrates a reduction in mental health problems. Learn about approaches to integrate the outdoors into mental health prevention and treatment in CAMHS. Think critically about how you can integrate more outdoor activities, or evaluate these, to add to the evidence base. 11 July 3:45-6:10pm UK time. Full details on the website
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Reflective Parenting is grounded in theories of attachment, mentalizing and neuroscience and brings these theories together in a way that parents can gain a greater understanding of their teenager’s actions, and a greater ability to cope with their own emotions in their relationship with their teens. Led by Dr. Sheila Redfern, Head of Family Trauma Clinical Department and Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 16 July, 5-6:30pm, UK time.
Just released! 4 x 2 hour webinars from just ￡40
The object of the seminars is that given the introduction of Mandatory Reporting it is likely that there will be increasing numbers of sexually abused children and young people identified. The seminars will present current approaches to working with children and young people who have been sexually abused and those responsible for sexually harmful behaviour, and approaches to prevention. Start September. Full details online
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School as a pathway to public health ensures that the environment promotes psychological safety, enables equity and inclusion and facilitates children to be able to live life well, interrupting the cycle of intergenerational trauma. The webinar will be led by Julie Harmieson, TISUK Director of Education and National Strategy. 17 September, 5-6:30pm, UK time. Full details online
Professor Tony Attwood webinar on Autism
Learning objectives; Learn about the characteristics of camouflaging in autism. Discover the most effective and easy management techniques to make life less stressful. How to face key challenges commonly experienced by autistic girls. The impact of co-morbidity with issues of mental health. Inspiring strategies that make a real difference to peoples lives. 10 Oct, 9am-12pm, UK time. Full details online
Professor Tony Attwood webinar on Autism
Learning objectives; Managing intense emotions, anxiety, sleep, computer gaming and stress management for all family members. The stages of autism through childhood, puberty, and adolescence. Effect on family dynamics of having more than one autistic child. How a parent/carer with autistic characteristics effects different parenting styles. 17 Oct, 9am-12pm, UK time. Full details online
Selection of papers from our three journals
Open Access paper from the JCPP
Robin Nusslock, Lauren B. Alloy, Gene H. Brody, Gregory E. Miller
Depression is a serious public health problem, and adolescence is an ‘age of risk’ for the onset of Major Depressive Disorder. Recently, we and others have proposed neuroimmune network models that highlight bidirectional communication between the brain and the immune system in both mental and physical health, including depression. These models draw on research indicating that the cellular actors (particularly monocytes) and signaling molecules (particularly cytokines) that orchestrate inflammation in the periphery can directly modulate the structure and function of the brain. In the brain, inflammatory activity heightens sensitivity to threats in the cortico-amygdala circuit, lowers sensitivity to rewards in the cortico-striatal circuit, and alters executive control and emotion regulation in the prefrontal cortex.
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances
Caitlyn Donaldson,?Jemma Hawkins,?Frances Rice,?Graham Moore
Adolescence is a period of profound developmental change during which the prevalence of mental health problems starts to increase. It also typically coincides with a school transition. Understanding mental health trajectories through school transition is important to inform interventions to support young people's mental health during this period.
Free Access paper from the CAMH journal
Cornelius Ani,?Bolanle Ola,?Matthew Hodes,?Valsamma Eapen
Socio-ecological factors are major determinants of poor mental health across the life span. These factors can lead to health inequalities, which refer to differences in the health of individuals or groups (Kirkbride et?al., 2024). Health inequity “is a specific type of health inequality that denotes an unjust, avoidable, systematic and unnecessary difference in health” (Arcaya, Arcaya, & Subramanian, 2015). Among several intersecting social adversities, inequity is one of the most pervasive contributors to poor mental health across all regions (Venkatapuram & Marmot, 2023). Structural inequity creates institutional power structures that marginalise large sections of the population and concentrate resources in the hands of a small minority (Shim, Kho, & Murray-García, 2018). The world is now more prosperous than it has ever been, yet the world is witnessing more within country inequality with the vast majority of the world's resources in the hands of a small minority of individuals or regions (United Nations, 2020).
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