The PMHA’s annual winter meeting will take place on the 27th and 28th January 2022, and will be held online via Zoom.

Target audience: Health care professionals interested in mental health.

Key aims: Education, update and discussions about current topics in children and young people’s mental health.

A booking link will be available soon, so please save the date if you are interested in attending. Below is the programme for the two-day meeting:

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Thursday 27th January 2022

Symposium –  Childhood Social and Emotional Development

09:20-09:30	Welcome and Introduction – Dr Cassie Coleman and Dr Bo Fischer
09:30-10:15	The long-term impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children who were in-utero or born during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Dr Jane Barlow, Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, University of Oxford.
10:15-11:00	The impact of maternal mental illness on the parent- infant relationship and implications for the developing infant. Dr Selena Gleadow-Ware, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, NHS Lothian.
11:00- 11:15	Comfort break
11:15- 12:00	On the ground – the Impact of Lockdown on Preschoolers– A Health Visitor’s Perspective. Taifa Armstrong, Health Visitor, Bucks
12:00-12:45	Safeguarding sequelae of the pandemic   TBC
12:45-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Screen use and Development – what is the evidence? Dr Max Davie, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Lambeth.
14:30- 15:00	Adolescents- Risk, resilience and relationships – Demelza Holmes, Research in Practice (pre-recorded talk )
15:00-16:00	Keynote lecture:  Health Inequalities: Everyone’s business ” – Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Friday 28th January 2021

Symposium: The Complex Child

09:20- 09:30	Welcome and Introduction – Dr Cassie Coleman and Dr Bo Fischer
9:30- 10:15	Unpicking complex cases involving ASD/attachment/trauma/parenting styles/ADHD/anxiety.  Dr Nancy Bostock, Consultant Paediatrician
10:15- 11.00	Child to parent violence and abuse. Carole Baker, Whose in Charge? Programme Trainer
11:00- 11:15	Comfort break
11:15- 12:00	Trainee presentations
12:00- 12:45	LAC/Adopted Children – Misdiagnosis of Complexity Dr Matt Woolgar, Clinical Psychologist, South London & Maudsley
12:45- 13:15	Lunch break
13:15- 14:00	Functional abdominal pain syndromes in children Dr Kate Stein, CAMHS, Oxford.
14:00- 15:00	The Pandemic of Eating disorders – Some Case studies  –  TBC
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There will also be Poster Presentations from Trainee Health Professionals, including Paediatricians, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Nurses, GPs. Full details regarding how to submit a poster presentation about research into Child Mental Health for selection will also be available soon