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Updated: May 2
Following extensive feedback and revisions from patients, families and professionals, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Paediatric Mental Health Association are pleased to publish reworked guidance on Bodily Distress Disorder in Children and Young People.
The guidance can be accessed via the following link:
Our summer conference, on the theme of ‘Mental Health at the Front Door’, will be taking place on the afternoon of Thursday, 6th July. Topics covered will be relevant to staff working in Paediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Child Psychiatry and General Practice.
Programme
1:15-1:30 – Registration
1:30-2:15 – Mental Health in Paediatric Emergency Departments
2:15-3:00 – Deprivation of Liberty in Children and Young People
3:00-3:15 – Break
3:15-4:00 – The Effects of Parental Mental Health on Children and Young People
4:00-4:45 – Paediatric Mental Health Leadership in Acute Settings
4:45-5:00 – Close
Please register using the link below:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdO6qqDksGdOu6J9mPmE1xaFWONTQBkI5
As usual, please register using your professional email account (@nhs.net, @nhs.uk or @nhs.scot).
Look forward to seeing you there!
The 2023 RCPCH Conference has kicked off in Glasgow today, with the theme “Child Health in a Changing World”. We are particularly pleased that the College has chosen “compassionate leadership and mental health” as its theme for Day 2 (24th May). There will all sorts of useful mental health sessions throughout the day, including workshops on mental health education for paediatricians (run by members of our own executive committee!) and simulation training for management of mental health emergencies; a lunchtime networking meeting for mental health leads; the Illingworth-Rees Memorial Lecture by Professor Helen Minnis on Abuse, Neglect and Neurodevelopment Across the Life course; and, of course, an afternoon specialty group session run by the PMHA.
Have a look at the conference website for full details of the programme. We look forward to seeing lots of you there!