The Anna Freud Centre has produced a number of expert podcasts to help parents and carers understand and manage mental health problems
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The Anna Freud Centre (National Centre for Children and Families) works in collaboration with children and young people, their families and communities to transform children and families’ mental health
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Findings of the CLoCK study were published last week in the Lancet, outlining the physical and mental symptoms experienced by children and young people 3 months after infection with SARS-CoV-2. Researchers compared symptoms at baseline and 3 months between young people who tested positive for COVID versus those who tested negative.
Interestingly, the mental health, wellbeing, and fatigue scores were similar in the two groups. Striking, however, is the high proportion (about 40%) of children and young people who felt worried, sad or unhappy irrespective of whether they had COVID. Perhaps it reflects the fact that they have all been living through the pandemic’s isolation and school closures.
Stephenson T, Pereira SMP, Shafran R, et al. Physical and mental health 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection (long COVID) among adolescents in England (CLoCk): a national matched cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2022;0(0). doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00022-0
Follow this link to read the full paper.
The next PMHA webinar will take place on Monday 21st February at 7.30pm. The topic of this webinar is ‘Functional Neurological Disorders ’ and it will be delivered by Dr Matthew Butler, academic Neuropsychiatrist at King’s College London
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Please sign up using your professional email address (@nhs.net or nhs.uk) and we will contact you when your registration has been approved.
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It’s not too late to book!
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The online meeting is a great opportunity to network with other professionals working in paediatrics and mental health, and to update yourself on the latest research and developments in the field.
If you have not already booked for the meeting, there is still time to do so. Members of the PMHA can attend at a special discounted price.
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We have just updated the programme for the PMHA Annual Winter Meeting 2022 (January 27th and 28th), adding more great speakers and sessions to the line up.
To view the updated programme, click here.
The online meeting is a great opportunity to network with other professionals working in paediatrics and mental health, and to update yourself on the latest research and developments in the field.
If you have not already booked for the meeting, there is still time to do so. Members of the PMHA can attend at a special discounted price.
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Happy new year to all our subscribers!
The first PMHA webinar of the year will take place on Monday 10th January at 7.30pm. The topic of this webinar is ‘Self Injurious Behaviour’ and it will be presented by Dr Caroline Richards, Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
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ACAMH (The Association for Child Mental Health) recently presented the ten most downloaded papers in each of their three journals in 2021.
The association publishes three journals, the JCPP, the CAMH and JCPP Advances. In recognition of the success of these publications during 2021, in their newsletter they have presented the ten most downloaded papers for each journal during the past year.
To see the articles which were most popular in each journal, click here.
The final PMHA webinar of this year will take place on Monday 13th December at 19:30. The topic of this webinar is ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ and will be presented by Dr David Vickers, Consultant Community Paediatrician and Medial Director of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Foundation Trust
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We would like to draw your attention to this recent research article published in the journal JCPP Advances by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH).
Increasing specialisation and technical sophistication of medical tools across the 21st century have contributed to dramatic improvements in the life-expectancy of children and adolescents with complex physical health problems. Concurrently, there is growing appreciation within the community of the extent that children and adolescents experience mental disorders, which are more prevalent in those with complex chronic, serious or life-limiting health conditions. In this context, there are compelling reasons for paediatric services to move to a model of care that promotes greater integration of child psychiatry within the medical, somatic teams that care for children and adolescents in children’s hospitals.
In this article, we discuss the range of medical disorders managed by contemporary paediatrics.
We conducted a broad review of the literature and existing services, and use individual accounts to illustrate adolescents’ healthcare preferences in the context of the challenges they experience around their mental health.
For the full article click here
JCPP is a new open access journal in the field of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and related disciplines
This ONLINE meeting will be held on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th January, 2022, on Zoom
Please go to The PMHA Meetings to see the programme, full details and a link to book to attend
Members of the PMHA will be able to book with a discount.
If you are not already a Member, but would like to receive this discount, please go to Join the PMHA and sign up. Only £25 a year.
We look forward to seeing you in January!
Paediatric Mental Health Association 