Mental health and care-experienced young people: are our mental health support services appealing and accessible?
Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)
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New blog from Alice Phillips (below), University of Bath.
“Children in care are much more likely to experience mental health problems than young people in the general population. Early life experiences, such as abuse, neglect, parental drug-use or violence likely play a major part in this. So too could the instability that is often inherent in the care system. Supporting their mental health is essential to help them learn to cope with some of these difficult experiences and build resilience. Unaddressed mental health needs are seen as a key driver for the poorer outcomes we see in care-experienced adults, such as unemployment, homelessness and contact with the criminal justice system (Murray et al., 2020). For this reason, it is really important that young people in care get timely access to mental health treatments, before these difficulties and related complexities worsen.” Read more on the website
More ￡10 webinars in the ‘Professor Judy Dunn Webinar Series’
We are proud to present this webinar series named in honour of Professor Judy Dunn. It is FREE for ACAMH Members and just ￡10 for non-members, and all delegates have exclusive access to a recording of the session. It is aimed at disseminating the evidence-based research on different topics to help parents, and those working with children and young people, improve young people’s mental health.
Dr. Faith Orchard, Research Psychologist, and Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex, will share insights into how sleep changes during adolescence, and how treatments for insomnia can be used to inform some simple healthy habits for improving sleep. 10am UK time, 31 January.
Professor Cathy Cresswell and Chloe Chessell, both University of Oxford, examine the current research and explain what anxiety is, when anxiety becomes a problem and the evidence-based tools and techniques to help children to overcome anxiety problems. 1pm UK time, 2 February
Professor Lucy Bowes, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Oxford, will share her expert knowledge into the current research and practical strategies about how we can collectively tackle bullying. 1pm UK time, 18 March
Latest Podcast release
In this Papers Podcast Dr. Marica Leone?(below) discusses her JCPP paper ‘Melatonin use and the risk of self-harm and unintentional injuries in youths with and without psychiatric disorders’. Discussion points include: What is known about the relationship between sleep disorders, injuries, and self-harm in young people. Implications of the findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals. Importance of good sleep hygiene and what this looks like.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) for Reviewers
It is great news that you can be recognised for Peer Review with ACAMH journals. Together with publishing partners Wiley, we now offer CME credit for peer review of manuscripts submitted to all three journals, The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP), the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances. See our website for how to get involved.
Upcoming Webinars
All of our 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.
This event will stimulate questions concerning the validity of the construct of personality disorders in adolescence. We will discuss the current research and understanding pertaining to assessment and evidence-based management, and explore the long term impact, and appropriateness of using diagnostic labels in this population.
6 December, 9:15am UK, 10:15am CET
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Dr.?Ruth Blackburn and Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health lead this session. FREE for all. 28 November, 5pm UK, 6pm CET, 12 noon EST
Associate Professor Dr. Rebecca Lacey, UCL, is the keynote in a session discussing the challenges young carers face and how this impacts on their mental health. FREE to all. 5 December 4pm, 5pm CET, 11am EST
Nora Trompeter, UCL, presents an overview on this subject and how this impacts adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. FREE to all. 16 January, 5pm UK, 6pm CET, 12 noon EST
Assistant Professor Dr. Jessica Wozniak and Associate Professor Dr. Jessica L. Griffin, both University of Massachusetts Medical School, present research on music and neurobiology and health outcomes, including mental health. FREE to all. 30 January, 5pm UK, 6pm CET, 12 noon EST
Professor Shanta R. Dube, Jessica Bondy, and Fiona Pienaar discuss this topic. FREE to all. 13 February, 5pm UK, 6pm CET, 12 noon EST
Led by Professor Heather Taussig, University of Colorado’s Kempe Center, and University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. FREE to all. 12 March, 5pm UK, 6pm CET, 12 noon EST
Catch up on some Open Access in JCPP Advances
This meta-analysis aimed to establish the effects of CBM-I for children and adolescents on both anxiety and depression using psychometrically validated symptom measures, as well as state negative affect and negative and positive interpretation bias.
Authors; Gemma Sicouri,?Emily K. Daniel,?Michael J. Spoelma,?Elske Salemink,?Emma A. McDermott,?Jennifer L. Hudson
Antipsychotics are increasingly prescribed to children and adolescents worldwide, but little is known about reasons for prescribing. We aimed to examine patterns of paediatric antipsychotic prescribing in Australian primary care services in 2011 and 2017, including diagnoses, sociodemographic characteristics, off-label prescribing, and psychotropic co-prescribing.
Authors; Julie Klau,?David Gonzalez-Chica,?Melissa Raven,?Jon Jureidini
Elevated loneliness experiences characterise young people. While loneliness at this developmental juncture may emerge from age-typical upheaval in social relationships, there is little data on the extent to which young people experience high and persistent levels of loneliness, and importantly, who is most vulnerable to these experiences. Using the widespread social restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which precipitated loneliness in many, we aimed to examine adolescents' loneliness profiles across time and the demographic predictors (age, sex, and country) of more severe trajectories.
Authors; Laura Riddleston, Meenakshi Shukla, Iris Lavi, Eloise Saglio, Delia Fuhrmann, Rakesh Pandey, Tushar Singh, Pamela Qualter, Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Totally agree, early intervention is the key to reducing mental illness and pressures on mental health care services in adulthood.