The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) recently published an interested article about supporting children who have had adverse experiences:
“Recent NIHR research aims to improve the lives of children and young people exposed to adverse childhood experiences. It identifies the types of support young people feel they need from services, and offers ways to support the mental health of children in care and those adopted from care…”
Click here to read more.
Surveillance methodology has been widely used in paediatrics (British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, BPSU) and psychiatry (Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Surveillance System, CAPSS) to provide epidemiological data on conditions of interest. This study aimed to investigate the degree to which community paediatricians are involved in the care of children and young people (CYP) with mental health conditions, with implications for the surveillance of these conditions.
The authors concluded that community paediatricians are most involved in the care of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and that joint BPSU and CAPSS surveillance would be recommended for these disorders. Whilst community paediatricians are also involved in the care of CYP with emotional difficulties, often due to limited access to CAMHS, it was felt that the decision for single or joint surveillance should be made after consideration of all relevant factors. The authors also highlighted the urgent need to expand CAMHS services in order to provide support for CYP with emotional difficulties, who are currently being managed by community paediatricians.
Ayyash HF, Ogundele MO, Lynn RM, et al. Involvement of community paediatricians in the care of children and young people with mental health difficulties in the UK: implications for case ascertainment by child and adolescent psychiatric, and paediatric surveillance systems. BMJ Paediatrics Open 2021;5:e000713. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000713
Follow this link to read the full paper.
The Anna Freud Centre has produced a number of expert podcasts to help parents and carers understand and manage mental health problems
To view these please click here
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
You can go to their home page here.
It’s not too late to book!
To view the 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.
Click here for more information and to register.
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.
We wanted to direct your attention to this fantastic website about physical and mental healthcare for young people. The site has been set up by Dr Rory Conn, a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in Exeter, Devon. Click on the image below to visit the site…
The website has an interesting blog section, where Dr Conn discusses different current issues and offers his own thoughts on working with the mental health of young people.
It also has a growing collection of useful resources for patients and families, as well as for professionals and students / trainees working in this area.
Members of the PMHA can find links to more great sources of information like this under the ‘Resources‘ section of this website. Not a member yet? Then why not join now?
Dr Sarah Temple, a GP and director of EHCAP – an organisation providing innovative solutions for education, health, care and prison services – has written a great book aimed at supporting children and families to be emotionally ready for school. The book, ‘All Emotions Are Okay’, is a bright and colourful exploration of the emotions young children, and their parents or carers, might feel when they start school.
Click on the picture above, or click here, to see and download a pdf version of this book. You can also give feedback on the book.
This recent report aims to better understand young people’s experience of managing chronic asthma and how asthma care and management could be improved particularly for groups experiencing exclusion and living in areas of deprivation.
This report is led by the Young People’s Health Partnership working closely with partners at the Association for Young People’s Health, the Race Equality Foundation, Friends, Families and Travellers and RCPCH &Us.
It was written by PMHA member Jeremy Sachs (to visit his personal website click here), who worked to produce it with the Association for Young People’s Health.
Did you know that you can now see a lots of ACAMH events from wherever you might be at the moment?
With the global spread of the coronavirus, many organisations across the world are changing working practices to ensure everyone’s safety. One such organisation is the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), which will not be staging physical events for the rest of 2020, but instead is bringing events online as live webinars, many of which will be free.
There are also a number of recorded webinars already available for view, including:
More will be added to the ACAMH website’s Freeview section, which contains a whole host of other past lectures.
Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day. In connection with this, we wanted to tell you about this great training tool:
It is free, takes less than an hour, and features young people with lived experience.
Paediatric Mental Health Association 