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Autism webinars

Don’t miss this opportunity to see Professor Tony Attwood at these two upcoming webinars. Tony is a leader in the field and has sold over one million books on the topic of autism. If you cannot make the day, don’t worry as all delegates have access to slides and recordings for 90 days after the session.

Autism; Making Friends will look at strategies to improve social understanding and friendship skills for children and young people with autism. Tuesday 27 June. See website for full details

“Fantastic…, would recommend to all professionals and parents” – a past delegate

Autism; Managing Feelings of Anxiety, Sadness, Anger will look at the complexities of expressing and managing feelings for children and young people with autism. Tuesday 4 July. See website for full details

Covid-19’s impact on Loneliness and Mental Health; Study of Schizotypal Traits & Paranoia

‘The Covid pandemic lockdown has affected us differently, with some people being impacted more than others. Extensive research has indicated that lockdowns – which broadly include isolation measures, such as, in the UK, being required to stay at home unless for essential reasons – have disproportionately impacted individuals with higher levels of paranoia.’

New blog by Edouard de Bray on Keri Wong et al’s paper ‘A three-wave network analysis of COVID-19’s impact on schizotypal traits, paranoia and mental health through loneliness’.

Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and child inhibitory control

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Tone Hermansen discusses her JCPP Advances paper ‘Child internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and child inhibitory control’. Discussion points include: How low levels of inhibitory control present in children. Why children with lower levels of inhibitory control are particularly vulnerable to negative environmental influences. Are children with higher levels of inhibitory control more likely to internalise rather than externalise problems? Subscribe to the ACAMH weekly podcasts on your preferred streaming platform.

ACAMH AWARDS

Now is the time to nominate for the 2023 ACAMH Awards. Nominate your team, your colleague, yourself! Full details are available online.

Catch up on some Open Access papers

JCPP – ‘we used a subset of the IMAGEN population cohort sample to understand longitudinally the long-term interrelations between stress, cortical development, and cognitive functioning.’ Tochukwu Nweze et al. Trajectories of cortical structures associated with stress across adolescence: a bivariate latent change score approach

CAMH journal – ‘In adolescents, technology use at bedtime is linked to disrupted sleep and psychological distress… At greater risk maybe adolescents with a late compared to early chronotype, that is a preference for late versus early sleep onset and offset times.’ Alexander Reardon et al. Adolescent sleep, distress, and technology use: weekday versus weekend

JCPP Advances – ‘it remains unclear how parental mental health has changed throughout the pandemic or what factors may have mitigated or compounded the impact of the pandemic on parents’ mental health.’ Simona Skripkauskaite et al. Changes in UK parental mental health symptoms over 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic

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) State of the Art and Options for Action

The 2023 Jack Tizard Memorial Webinar is one not to miss!

We are honoured to have such distinguished speakers for our International webinar; Prof. Mark Bellis Prof. Judith Cohen, Prof. David Finkelhor, Dr. Alan Meehan, Dr. Jessie Baldwin, Dr. Fiona Turner, Gary Kainth, Dr. Kirsten Asmussen, Joanne Hopkins.

With talks on; need to develop preventative approaches, making memories rather than re-living them, issues of screening, challenges to causal inference posed by observational research, research on abused and neglected under 5s placed in foster care, improving the lives of vulnerable children, and whole school approach to informed practice. Visit the ACAMH website for full details.

Anxiety in children and teenagers – supporting, understanding and signposting

Explore what anxiety looks like in young people and learn more about what we know from research about the causes of anxiety. Includes practical tips, anxiety relating to exams, and how risk factors interact. Thursday 6 July. Register now

Why changing culture and attitudes towards neurodiversity matters

Discover how the changing culture and attitudes towards neurodiversity matter when supporting children and young people. Hear from a leading paediatrician, lecturer, project leader, and a lived experience viewpoint. They will expand your understanding of the complex factors of neurodiversity, with a critical examination of the deficit model which can prevail. There will also be consideration of approaches to support children who are in neuro-minorities. Tuesday 18 July. See website for full details and booking

I hate Mondays!

Why children and young people don’t go to school, and how to support them. Wednesday 7 June. See website for full details and booking

CAMH journal 2023 Lecture

FREE TO ALL! Featuring a series of lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners, with keynote lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot. Tuesday 20 June. Register now

Interrelationships between parental mental health, partner violence and child mental health

FREE TO ALL! Led by Prof. Gene Feder, Dr Shabeer Syed, and Dr Claire Powellon behalf of the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit. Tuesday 27 June. Register now

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