Secure parent-infant relationships are a crucial factor in ensuring good mental and physical wellbeing throughout life. The Parent-Infant Foundation recently published this report, which includes a summary of qualitative and quantitative research conducted with parents, focusing on the parent-infant relationship.
Parents ranked the parent-infant relationship as the third most important influence on child development, below the impact of domestic violence and parental drug use.
50% of parents thought there was not enough support available for developing the parent-infant relationship.
The fear of judgement and stigma are barriers to parents seeking support with their parent-infant relationship.
Securing Healthy Lives: An extended summary of research about parent-infant relationship help and support across Cwm Taf Morgannwg
Bateson DK., Sercombe M., Hamilton W. Securing Healthy Lives: An extended summary of research about parent-infant relationship help and support across Cwm Taf Morgannwg. Parent-Infant Foundation. December 2021.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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
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
The PMHA’s next webinar, on the topic of “Eating Disorders”, will be held on Monday 4th October at 7.30pm (Online).
Organised in conjunction with the Thinking Together group, this webinar will be delivered by Dr. Muriel Meso (Consultant Paediatrician), Dr. Victoria Chapman (Eating Disorder Consultant) and Dr. Ros Dharampal (Liaison Psychiatry Consultant).
The next in the PMHA’s series of webinars will take place on Monday 20th September 19:30 (Online). The topic of this webinar is ‘Organic and Non-Organic Causes of Psychosis in Childhood.
The webinar will be presented by Dr Hilary Lloyd, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Salford Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
Further webinars are being planned for October and November. Details will be available soon.
You may also be interested in the following events from Healthcare Conferences UK: They are pleased to offer a 20% discount with code “hcuk20pmha“
Improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2021, Online
We are pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Conference to focus on improving Mental Health Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Angelina Jalonen Head of Therapeutic Services The Refugee Council will give a national update which will look at supporting refugees through the hardship and isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and focus sessions will cover; multi-tiered and comprehensive MHPSS Systems & Psychological First Aid, working with refugees to improve mental health, and best practice examples of specialist clinical interventions.
Safeguarding Adolescents and Young Adults: Delivering a Strengths-Based Approach
WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2021, Online
We are pleased to announce National Safeguarding Adolescents and Young Adults Conference which this year will focus on improving safeguarding practice: delivering a strengths based approach, transitional safeguarding, contextual safeguarding and complex safeguarding. Through national expert sessions and practical case studies the conference aims to bring together safeguarding leads working with adolescents and young people to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas you are facing in practice including supporting adolescents and young adults through and beyond COVID-19, and developing a strengths based approach to adolescent safeguarding.
Presented by: Dr Suyog Dhakras, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Mr Robert Wheeler Consultant Neonatal and Paediatric Surgeon and Associate Medical Director, Department of Clinical Law.
The webinar will take place on Zoom on Monday August 16th at 19:30.
Please sign up using your professional email address (@nhs.net or nhs.uk) and we will contact you when your registration has been approved.
We look forward to seeing you there!
After this webinar, the PMHA Webinar Series will then start again on Monday September 6th, 2021, with a Discussion Panel: Careers in Mental Health for Paediatricians.
The PMHA continues its webinar series with a session on ‘Psychopharmacology for Paediatricians’, presented by Dr. Martynas Malkov: Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.
The schedule for the afternoon will run as follows:
12.45 Registration
12:55 Introductions
13:00 Talk 1- Eating Disorders: Dr Nasima Matine, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Eating Disorders, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust
13:45 Questions
14:00 Talk 2- The long-term effects of developmental trauma on children and young people: Dr Laura Wood, Consultant Paediatrician, Research Director and Child & Family Modern Slavery Lead, Vita Training
14:45 Questions
15:00 Break
15:15 Talk 3: Acute Behavioural Disturbance: Dr Anthony Crabb, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Devon Partnership NHS Trust
16:00 Questions
16:15 Talk 4: Mental Health Law: Dr Rory Conn, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Devon Partnership Trust
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