Association For Child And Adolescent Mental Health (acamh)

Professor David Olds, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health, University of Colorado Department of Pediatrics, talks to freelance journalist Jo Carlowe about his career and the Family-Nurse Partnership. David is the Keynote Speaker at the [**Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and National Conference**](https://www.acamh.org/event/miller19/) - 'Attachment & Early Intervention: Improving emotional wellbeing and relationships in the family, and at school.' The title of his talk is 'Using Randomized Clinical Trials of the Family-Nurse Partnership to Inform Policy, Practice, and Developmental Science.' David says of his discussion: 'I will use our experience in developing, testing, and replicating the Nurse-Family Partnership to address the following questions. How can we design early parental interventions to maximize their likelihood of working? How can we design research to build a strong evidence-base for early-intervention?How can we scale evidence-

Professor Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Exeter Medical School, talks to Jo Carlowe, psychology journalist, about attachment and early intervention, and explains why schools are an important setting in relation to child mental health. Tamsin's work focuses on the effectiveness of interventions and services for children with poor mental health, such as the Incredible Years Classroom Management Course that is tested in the STARS trial. Tamsin will be speaking at the [Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and National Conference](https://www.acamh.org/event/miller19/), in London on Friday 8 March. Her discussion will be on 'The incredible years teacher programme – update on recent trials .'

At our Infant Mental Health conference, held in Southampton in December 2018, Clare Evans, second year training psychologist, University of Southampton, spoke to Professor Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Glasgow. Professor Minnis discussed her early experiences of working in an orphanage in Guatemala and how it influenced her career, attachment disorders, and her current innovative research with the BeST? Study, which aims to find out what is the best service for young abused and neglected pre-school children coming into foster care. Clare is one of ACAMH growing group of students and early career researchers who are given opportunities to publish blogs, interview leading players in psychology and psychiatry, and attend our events for free. For details of how you can get involved email [membership](membership@acamh.org).

At the recent (Dec 2018) ACAMH Southern Branch conference on Infant Mental Health we spoke to Professor Pasco Fearon about his work on attachment.

Edmund Sonuga Barke, Editor in Chief of JCPP, talks about the papers that influenced him, how JCPP maintains its quality, and what the future holds for [JCPP](https://www.acamh.org/journal-child-psychology-psychiatry-jcpp/). Edmund is currently Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience working in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College London. He also holds Visiting Chairs at Ghent University, Aarhus University and the University of Sussex. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. His work integrates Developmental Psychopathology and Neuroscience perspectives to employing basic developmental science approaches to study the pathogenesis of neuro-developmental and mental health conditions; their underlying genetic and environmental risks, mediating brain mechanisms and developmental outcomes. He has a particular interest in ADHD and related disorders. In 2016, Prof So

Professor Pasco Fearon, Deputy Editor in Chief of JCPP, Chair in Developmental Psychopathology Clinical, Education & Health Psychology, UCL, talks about his relationship with the [Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry](https://www.acamh.org/journal-child-psychology-psychiatry-jcpp/).

**Dr Seonaid Anderson** and **Helen Eadie**, of [**Tourettes Action**](https://www.tourettes-action.org.uk/), define [**Tourettes Syndrome**](https://www.acamh.org/topic/tourette-syndrome/) and expand on its impact. Together with Jo Carlowe, psychology journalist, they explore the next steps for raising identification, awareness, and positive outcomes.

Dr Mark Lovell, and Mary Busk, talk to journalist Jo Carlowe about Intellectual Disabilities from a professional and personal viewpoint. Mary is a Family Carer Advisers in the Improving Health and Quality Team, part of the Learning Disability Programme for NHS England. Mark is a dual-trained Consultant Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Psychiatrist. For more on Intellectual Disabilities check out our free evidence-based [topic guide](https://www.acamh.org/topic/intellectual-disabilities/).

André Tomlin, The Mental Elf, interviews the Project PERFECT team at the University of Birmingham to find out how unusual beliefs offer philosophers of mind the opportunity to challenge mental health stigma.

Professor Courtenay Norbury defines Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), expands on its impact and discusses how and when to identify it. Together with Jo Carlowe, psychology journalist, she explores the critical nature of effective interventions and what current thinking says about the causes. The next steps for raising awareness are identified along with ways to improve outcomes for DLD.

Professor Helen Minnis and Lisa Dinkler discuss their paper "Maltreatment-associated neurodevelopmental disorders: a co-twin control analysis" published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

At the recent Parental Mental Illness Masterclass led by charity Our Time, ACAMH CEO, Martin Pratt, caught up with the speakers, Dr Alan Cooklin, Jess Streeting and Kirsty Taha-Wraith, to discuss the impact of parental mental health and what Our Time's interventions mean for young people.

Join Dr Dennis Ougrin as he discusses growing up in the Soviet Union and the role of psychiatry there and choosing to develop a career in psychiatry, as well as his recent appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the future of the journal. A specialist in self-harm and suicide, he emphasises the importance of early intervention and prevention, as well as the potential of Therapeutic Assesssment, a novel model of assessment for young people with self-harm ahead of his upcoming Self Harm Masterclass.

Dr Duncan Law discusses the importance of everyday participation and improving the therapeutic alliance by collaboratively creating goals.

Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental health problem across the lifespan. They have a particularly early age of onset – half of all people who experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their life will first experience those difficulties by the age of 11 years. Yet we have found that an extremely small proportion of children who experience significant and sustained problems with anxiety receive any sort of professional support, let alone support that is known to be effective. We spoke to Professor Cathy Creswell about some of the barriers to support for children with anxiety, the Anxiety and Depression in Young people research clinic, and her role as the lead for the Emerging Minds: Action for Child Mental Health research network.

Dr Sophie Browning is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working on whole school approaches to mental health. In this podcast with psychology journalist Jo Carlowe, she discusses an innovative cognitive behavioural therapy approach for reducing anxiety and mental health problems in schools.

There have been growing levels of awareness of harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people. In this podcast, psychology journalist, Jo Carlowe interviews Professor Kieran McCartan, Professor of Criminology, and Dr Anna Markham, Forensic Psychologist and Acting Clinical Lead for the Child and Adolescent Harmful Behaviour Service. Together they consider what might predispose a young person to harming sexually, what are the warning signs, and what it means to go beyond criminal justice to a public health approach.

The World Health Organization has stated that parental mental illness is a major public health issue across the globe and Adverse Childhood Experiences research identifies it as one of the 10 most significant adversities and risk factors for children and young people's mental wellbeing. 70% of these children will suffer some level of largely preventable mental ill health themselves by the age of 21.  In this podcast, Dr Alan Cooklin and Jessica Streeting discuss the impact of parental mental illness, how family psychiatry has developed, how everyone has a key role to play, and the power of explanation and understanding as a protective intervention.

Sleep difficulties are common in children and adolescents, especially in some high-risk groups, such as young people with neurodevelopmental conditions or mental health problems. Clinicians working in paediatric or child mental health settings need an understanding of sleep disorders as it is important to know how sleep disturbance impacts on a young person’s physical and cognitive development, and mental health. At our recent Sleep and Mental Health Conference, we caught up with the speakers, Dr Michael Farquhar, Dr Jenna Vyas-Lee, Dr Max Davie and Dr Sally Hobson to discuss the relationship between sleep, behaviour and mental health, as well as some insights into assessment, management and barriers to interventions.

Anne Lawlor, Co-Founder and Chairperson of 22Q11 Ireland joins ACAMH to discuss 22q11 deletion syndrome, its impacts on sleep and mental health, as well as how her lived experience informs her work and how it could inform the work of professionals.