Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23705 In this Papers Podcast, senior researcher Dr. Britt Morthorst discusses her JCPP Advances paper ‘Internet based intervention (Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents) as add-on to treatment as usual versus treatment as usual for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescent outpatients: The TEENS randomised feasibility trial’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12115). Britt is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; What is the usual treatment for adolescents presenting with non-suicidal self-injury? What is ‘Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents’, and how does it differ from treatment as usual? What does the Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents consist of? Will internet-based Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents be a valuable additional to treatment as usual for adolescents engaging with non-suicidal self-injury?

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23622 In this Papers Podcast, research associate Dr. Claire Goodfellow discusses her CAMH paper ‘Associations between dimensions of mental health literacy and adolescent help-seeking intentions’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12608). Claire is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; A definition of ‘Mental Health Literacy’, as it relates to young people. Increased ability to identify specific mental health problems was associated with decreased formal, and informal, help-seeking intentions. Is the fact that knowledge of treatment efficacy was positively associated with help-seeking, despite the ability to identify a mental health problem being negatively associated with help-seeking, unique or more pronounced in adolescents than adults? What are the implications of the findings for CAMH professionals, Educationalists, and other stakeholders? How can information relating to

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23572 In this Papers Podcast, evolutionary anthropologist Dr. Nikhil Chaudhary and consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Annie Swanepoel discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Editorial Perspective: What can we learn from hunter-gatherers about children’s mental health? An evolutionary perspective’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13773). The paper explores a possibility that some common aspects of hunter-gatherer childhoods could help families in economically developed countries. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings and implications for practice. Discussion points include; The importance of comparing hunter-gatherer childhoods to the childhoods we see in economically developed countries (referred to as WEIRD countries). What the acronym WEIRD stands for. The caveats to be aware of when comparing hunter-gather childhoods to WEIRD childhoods. The types of different approaches to childcare that emerge from comparing hunter-gatherer childhoods to WEIRD childhood

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23535 In this Papers Podcast, clinical psychologist Micah Boerma discusses his CAMH journal Review paper ‘Review: Recommendations for male-friendly counselling with adolescent males: A qualitative systematic literature review‘ (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12633). Micah is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; The importance of focusing on the experiences of young males receiving psychological treatment. Why young males are so reluctant to engage in professional help-seeking and also quick to discontinue treatment compared to females. What emerged in terms of therapists’ assumptions or biases or any views they had about the specific challenges of working with young men. Did the biases apply equally regardless of the gender of the therapist? What is male friendly counselling and what recommendations are there for therapists to adapt their practice to better engage this population

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23462 In this Papers Podcast, Charlotte Viktorsson, a PhD student at the Development and Neurodiversity Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden, discusses her JCPP paper ‘Preferential looking to eyes versus mouth in early infancy: heritability and link to concurrent and later development’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13724). Charlotte is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; Why it is important to establish the relative role of genetic and environmental influences on eye preference relative to mouth preference in early infancy. What are the implications of what infants look at being largely based on their individual genotype, before they can select their environment by means of crawling or walking. Preference for eyes at 5 months was positively correlated with parent’s assessment of vocabulary at 14 months. No significant association was found between mouth or

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23289 In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Professor Sinéad McGilloway, Founder-Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Research, Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland, and doctoral fellow Christine Mulligan, provide valuable insight into the PRIMERA programme, which investigated how best to support young families experiencing parental mental illness. The PRIMERA project team won ACAMH’s prestigious Lionel Hersov Memorial Award in 2022, which recognises practice teams at the forefront of the advancement of child and adolescent mental health research and practice. There is an overview of the PRIMERA programme and insight into the key findings. Discussion points include; How prevalent parental mental illness is. What the provision of services is like for affected families. How developed is the evidence for family-focussed practice in this area? The Family Talk intervention programme – key findings and evaluation of the programme. Implications of the findings for CA

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23251 In this Papers Podcast, Professor Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at the Institute of Social Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and Kristjan Kikerpill, lecturer in Information Law and Digital Sociology of the same institution, discuss their co-authored Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal Special Issue paper, ‘Schools engaged in doom-monitoring students’ online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses’ (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12621). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; The types of activities that are monitored by schools using student activity monitoring software. The global nature of online monitoring of students’ online interactions and content creation in schools. What does the phrase ‘doom-monitoring’ mean and how it came about. The implications of the inaccuracy of the technology on students being monitored. The impact of

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23077 In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, for International Women’s Day 2023 (8 March), junior doctor and ACAMH Young Person Ambassador Clara Faria is joined by Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and Dr. Eunice Ayodeji, a child and adolescent mental health nurse and lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Salford, Manchester, and member of the ACAMH board. International Women’s Day 2023 has chosen the theme ‘Embrace Equity’. This podcast will celebrate women’s achievements in child and adolescent mental health, as well as explore how we can challenge gender stereotypes, call out discrimination, draw attention to bias, and seek out inclusion. Discussion points include; What does embracing equity mean? How CAMH researchers and clinicians can actively support and embrace equity in their own sphere of influence How CAMH professionals can embrace equity when it come

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22976 In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Naomi Warne, a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, and Dr. Helen Bould, a consultant senior lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the same institution, discuss their Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) paper, ‘Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence: prospective associations and mediating pathways‘ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13738). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; The comorbidity between disordered eating, self-harm, and also emotional dysregulation The three potential mediators of the association between emotional dysregulation and subsequent disordered eating and self-harm. The relevance of social cognition and experiences of being bullied as potential mediators How mediating pathways appear to differ by sex and outcomes Suggestions for interventions based on potential useful targets f

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22896 In this In Conversation podcast, clinical psychologist and lecturer Dr. Nic Hooper discusses his research into an approach to mental health named Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), plus shares insight into the importance of student mental health. Discussion points include; What is ACT? Why student life is difficult for so many students The impact of COVID 19 on students The importance of student mental health Particular groups of students who are more vulnerable to mental health issues at university How students can best look after themselves What can be done to support students at university

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22687 In this Papers Podcast, junior doctors Olivia Ellard and Christina Dennison, and Assistant Professor Helena Tuomainen of University of Warwick, discuss their Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal paper, ‘Interventions addressing loneliness amongst university students: a systematic review’ doi.org/10.1111/camh.12614. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; Some university students appear more vulnerable to feelings of loneliness, and therefore additional risk of mental health problems Impact of the COVID 19 on loneliness for university students How universities can have the power to tackle loneliness in their student population Advice for university mental health practitioners to assist with prevention and intervention Recommendations for young people if they are feeling lonely Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy makers. In this series, we speak to authors of pape

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22618 Professor Lina Gega, Professor of Mental Health at Hull York Medical School and the Director of the Institute of Mental Health Research at the University of York, and Dr. Hiran Thabrew of the Te Ara Hāro, Centre for Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, talk about the CAMH Special Issue in this Papers Podcast. Lina and Hiran are two of the editors of the CAMH Special Issue ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’ and they have written the Editorial ‘Control alt delete – technology and children’s mental health’ doi.org/10.1111/camh.12631. There is an overview of the CAMH Special Issue, and their editorial, and the implications for practice. Discussion points include; Evidence into technology’s ability to act as a force of good and also a source of harm for young people’s mental health Why minimisation of technology related harm is as important as maximisation of technology related gains Need to m

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22473 For this Papers Podcast Dr. Kate Cooper, lecturer in clinical psychology University of Bath, talks about her paper ‘Phenomenology of gender dysphoria in autism: a multiperspective qualitative analysis’ doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13691, recently published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; What challenges might a person with autism face, as it relates to gender dysphoria, over and above a neurotypical young person with gender dysphoria. The communication difficulties between clinicians and autistic service users for gender dysphoria What clinicians can do differently to improve this What other autism adaptations are recommended for clinical services The significant difference in opinions that clinicians, parents, and autistic young people had and elaborates on the implications of the difference in opinions between these groups Advice for parents or c

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22321 For this podcast, we welcome clinical psychologist Eva Kimonis, Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and director of the Parent Child Research Clinic at the same institution. Eva is also President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathology, and the first author of the JCPP paper, ‘Facial reactions to emotional films in young children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13701). This paper will be the focus of today’s conversation. To set the scene, Eva first defines what is meant by the term ‘callous-unemotional traits’ and discusses how these generally present, before providing us with a brief overview of her paper. Eva comments on the methodology used for the study and shares insight into the findings that surprised her from this study, including her finding that the callous-unemotional group showed a high intensity of anger during both the happy fil

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22189 In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Kenneth E. Miller, Edith Lando Professor in Counselling for Refugee and Immigrant Youth and Families at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Ken is also the author of the book War Torn, Stories of Courage, Love and Resilience. He’s director of the film Unholy Ground about the impact on war on a frontline village in Sri Lanka. And he writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Refugee Experience. Today we’ll be focusing on Ken’s work with refugees, and some of his research, including his recent JCPP paper ‘Supporting parenting among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a randomized controlled trial of the caregiver support intervention’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13668). Discussion points include; Insight into what conditions are like for children and young people living in areas of armed conflict from a mental health perspective From experience and research, what kinds of interventions make the most difference for refugee children an

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22059 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Hope Christie, a teaching fellow at the Center for Research on Children and Families at the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Hope is the first author of the paper, ‘Examining harmful impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures on parents and carers in the United Kingdom: A rapid review’ doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12095 published in JCPP Advances. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; Why parents appear to have suffered disproportionately compared to non-parents during national lockdown restrictions Why the pandemic was so hard for so many parents Why kinship carers may have struggled more Parents with children aged 10 or younger reported high levels of stress when restrictions were highest, whereas parents with older children reported more depressive symptoms How the impact of COVID-19 pandemic continues to manifest with many parents

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21909 In this podcast, we are joined by social epidemiologist Dr. Rebecca Lacey of the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London,to talk about her JCPP paper “Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children” (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13699). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; With a sensitive period being defined as a point in time when maternal depression might have more of an impact on the child’s mental health, Becca elaborates on the importance of her paper’s assertion that the sensitive period continues through to adolescence. Emerging adulthood depressive symptoms were best explained by the accumulation of exposure to maternal depression, and not the infancy-sensitive period model. How findings will translate into practice Imp

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21750 In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Courtenay Norbury, Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communications at Psychology and Language Sciences, University of London, and director of the Literacy, Language, and Communication Lab, LiLaC, and Jo Saul, lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the same institution. They discuss their JCPP paper, ‘Prevalence and functional impact of social (pragmatic) communication disorders’, (doi:10.1111/jcpp.13705). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; Providing insight into what the focus of the LiLaC lab is What social pragmatic communication disorders (SPCD) are and how they present. Social pragmatic deficits rarely occurred in isolation, but often occurred alongside structural language difficulties and/or autism symptoms, they share implications of this Recommended changes to better identify, diagnose, and support children with SPCD What me

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21689 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jessica Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Dr. Peter Franzen, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, discuss their JCPP paper, ‘Sleep influences daily suicidal ideation through affective reactivity to interpersonal events among high-risk adolescents and young adults’ (doi:10.1111/jcpp.13651). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. Discussion points include; How they went about examining sleep as a proximal risk factor for suicide Their finding that short sleep may impair how teens can regulate their already intense emotions  Implications of their findings are for CAMH professionals How they envisage their findings will translate into practice Resources that listeners may find of use Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy m

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21594 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor in biological anthropology at the University of California. Andrew is the first author of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) paper ‘Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’ (doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13672), which is the focus of today’s podcast. Andrew sets the scene by providing a brief introduction of how he came to be interested in this area of research, before turning to the paper itself and sharing a brief overview of the paper. Andrew discusses the methodology used, including the challenges faced during the data collection, and shares the main findings from the paper. Andrew then expands upon two interesting findings; the first being the finding that social support did not mo