The PMHA’s first webinar took place on Monday 7th June 2021.
Dr. Virginia Davies, Consultant Paediatric Liaison Psychiatrist, discussed Medically Unexplained Symptoms in children and young people.
The webinars will be held every two weeks from now on. More information will be published here before each session.
On 7th December 2020, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is holding a highly topical online study day, titled Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR): Time for Change?
You can get a programme for the day here and can book a place here.
Below is some context provided by RCPSYCH:
“The UK has one of the lowest minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACR) in the world, with the age being set at 10 years old in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 12 in Scotland (having increased from 8 in 2019). These low ages are inconsistent with current neuroscientific knowledge regarding brain maturation and has led to the UK being singled out for criticism by the United Nations, which issued a General Comment in 2019 stating that the minimum age of criminal responsibility should be at least 14 years old.
The topic received further media coverage last week (see links below), following the release of the Justice Committee report on Young People and Youth Justice which called on the Government to review the current minimum age or provide justification for not doing this by February 2021.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the issues behind criminal responsibility including current evidence regarding brain maturation, international approaches to setting minimum ages and alternative non-criminal disposal options for those who commit risky offences below the minimum age of criminal responsibility. It is hoped that participants will come from a wide range of backgrounds so that a full range of views can be heard during the discussions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/review-age-criminal-responsibility-england-and-wales
You can book for the PMHA annual meeting here https://pmha-uk.org/the-pmha-annual-winter-meeting/
About the CYPMHC:
“The vision of CYPMHC is for all infants, children and young people to grow up in a society that prioritises, invests in, listens and attends to their mental health and wellbeing. We are working towards building a nation where positive mental health is promoted and early intervention practices are in place to secure mentally healthier futures for our children and young people.
We see mental health as everyone’s business. When one of us is in distress, there are implications for everyone: lost potential, unemployment and crime are just some of the consequences.
We want the Government to hear what we have to say and to put our ideas into practice. We would like ministers, commissioners and everyone who makes decisions relating to children and young people to note that promoting positive mental health, preventing mental ill health, and intervening early when problems arise requires cross-government action.
We do not represent any one organisation, approach, or professional group but rather we engage with our members and come together to provide a strong unified voice speaking out about children and young people’s mental health.”
Please click on the link below for more information
Reasons to attend:
Visit www.iacapap2020.org for more information.
Read read more about IACAPAP 2020 in the email newsletter.
COVID-19: Child & Adolescent Mental Healthcare – Disruption or Evolution?
A related webinar on ‘COVID-19: Child & Adolescent Mental Healthcare – Disruption or Evolution?‘ was held in July 2020. You can watch a recording of this webinar here.
During the interval of a recent concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, gave a thought provoking, and topical talk:
About Dr Dickon Bevington:
Dr Bevington is the Medical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS FT where he leads CASUS, an outreach service for complex substance using youth. He is also a Fellow of the Cambridge and Peterborough CLARHC, a collaboration based in Cambridge University dedicated to developing leadership and research in health and social care.
Dr Bevington’s consultant career started in adolescent in-patient psychiatry, but he now concentrates on developing and delivering innovative home-based or street-level out-reach interventions for complex, co-morbidly burdened young people who are socially excluded, using mentalization to underpin both the therapeutic and the organisational approach to this work. In this respect, together with Dr Peter Fuggle, he is the co-lead for the Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) project.
Dr Bevington trains and lectures internationally on MBT and AMBIT, and has published a number of papers and chapters in the eld of mentalization and multimodal outreach approaches, most recently with Dr Fuggle. He is also co-author of “ What works for whom: a critical review of treatments for children and adolescents” which is a review of all treatment trials in the past 10-15 years across the world.
Take a look at the Anna Freud Centre website for more information about this field of Child Mental Health.
For a great resource for on-line learning, click on link below: https://www.annafreud.org/mental-health-professionals/anna-freud-learning-network/
11.45 Opening
12.00 – Attachment and Autism
Dr Gina Gomez, Clinical Psychologist in Community Paediatrics – Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
13.00 – Maximising therapeutic benefit during mental health crisis in a paediatric ward
Dr Rory Conn, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Devon Partnership Trust
14.00-14.15 Break
14.15 – Update on how to manage eating disorders
Dr Nasima Matine, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust – Clinical Lead for The Phoenix Centre
15.15 – The mental health crisis in school – Education and mental health interface
Prof Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge
16.15 Close
11.45 Opening
12.00 – Attachment and Autism
Dr Gina Gomez, Clinical Psychologist in Community Paediatrics – Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
13.00 – Maximising therapeutic benefit during mental health crisis in a paediatric ward
Dr Rory Conn, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Devon Partnership Trust
14.00-14.15 Break
14.15 – Update on how to manage eating disorders
Dr Nasima Matine, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust – Clinical Lead for The Phoenix Centre
15.15 – The mental health crisis in school – Education and mental health interface
Prof Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge
16.15 Close
VENUE:
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Coram Campus
41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
DATE:
Friday 3rd July, 2020
TIMES:
Registration: 8.30am-9.25am
Conference: 9.25am-5.15pm
CoramBAAF Health Group Annual Meeting: 9.00am-9.25am.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Agency medical advisers, named and designated doctors and nurses, GPs, health visitors, school nurses, midwives and specialist nurses for looked after children, health professionals for disabled children, designated heads and teachers for looked after children, social workers, children’s guardians, adoption and fostering panel members, independent reviewing officers, mental health workers, psychiatrists and psychologists working with looked after and adopted children.
NETWORKING DINNER – Thursday 2 July 2020
Delegates will have the option of joining colleagues the day before for the networking dinner at 8pm in central London.
FEES:
> Full or associate CoramBAAF member (£185 + £37 VAT) Total Fee £222
> Nurse, student or individual CoramBAAF member (£135 + £27 VAT) Total Fee – £162
> Adoptive parent or foster carer (£135 + £27 VAT) Total Fee £162
> Non-member (£250 + £50 VAT) Total Fee £300
* Concessions for care leavers and adopted young people available by negotiation
CONTACT:
For further details contact the Conference Team on 020 7520 7520 or email conferences@corambaaf.org.uk
As a member, you also support the promotion of awareness and information sharing about a wide range of aspects of Child Mental Health. To find out more about becoming a member, click here.
The dates for this year’s PMHA Annual Winter Meeting have been set for the 23rd and 24th of January, 2020.
The programme will be posted in the autumn.
We hope you will join us!
