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Julieta Galante (Deputy Director, University of Melbourne Contemplative Studies Centre).

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#ChildMentalHealth #EvidenceBased #Stress
Mindfulness for students: A close look at the evidence | ACAMH Learn
Can mindfulness-based programs truly improve youth mental health? Dr Julieta Galante reviews the most reliable research, revealing a nuanced picture: while mindfulness shows promise for young people, outcomes…
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November 2, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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“children with autism may experience their restraints and seclusion as abusive and traumatising, and that can last over a long period of time.”

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#ChildMentalHealth #ACEs #ASD
Autism and Trauma: prevalence, core features and recommendations
Explanation of developmental disorders and their impacts on treatment planning and implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy from Dr. Daniel Hoover.
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November 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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🧠 How can we improve the diagnosis & treatment of severe mental illness in children & young people?

Join ACAMH on 4 December for expert insights into #psychosis, #bipolardisorder & treatment monitoring.

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November 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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#Eatingdisorders don't always look the way we expect. Explore muscularity-focused disordered eating and muscle dysmorphia in boys and young men with @jasonmnagata.bsky.social in this ACAMH webinar.

📅 28 January 2027
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November 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Looking for practical insight into emotion (dys)regulation?
This ACAMH Q&A 'Meet the Expert' blog with @alessiobellato.bsky.social sets the scene for a two-part short course on assessment tools and interventions. https://bit.ly/4dD9trZ
November 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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#KNOWvember is the month for sharing latest articles with @penninecarenhs.bsky.social authors #socialanxiety #paranoia
Paranoia and social anxiety: Structural and temporal relationships across adolescence - Kingston - JCPP Advances - Wiley Online Library acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Social anxiety (SA) and paranoia (PA) are commonly experienced during adolescence, but the nature of their co-development is largely unknown. Greater clarity could significantly advance o...
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November 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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In this #OpenAccess CAMH paper, Sophie Epstein et al. aimed to investigate the association between school absence among 14- to 15-year-olds and later mental health problems at ages 16–17 in England.

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background School absence is associated with mental health problems in adolescents, but most studies are cross-sectional. Longitudinal studies where school absence precedes mental health problems ar...
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November 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Carla Sharp (John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Psychology, and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, University of Houston).

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#ChildMentalHealth #CoOccurring #MultiMorbidity
Dimensional models for Personality disorder | ACAMH Learn
This talk explains the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, focusing on its dimensional approach with the Level of Personality Functioning.
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October 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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“the best way to understand whether a young person in care might be struggling with PTSD symptoms is to be ensuring that we're screening for PTSD symptoms”

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#ChildMentalHealth #ComplexPTSD #PTSD
A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex)…
Dr. Rachel Hiller gives a video abstract of her paper 'A longitudinal study of cognitive predictors of (complex) post‐traumatic stress in young people in out‐of‐home care' first published in Journal of Child…
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November 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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The objective of the current #OpenAccess paper was to investigate children's dynamic brain response to anticipatory fear as a function of their #anxiety symptoms in early childhood.

Read the full JCPP Advances paper by Khalil I. Thompson et al. to learn more. https://bit.ly/4gXr2pq
JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Although the neural underpinnings of anxiety have been investigated, most research has been confined to adolescence and adulthood, with less of a focus on the early childhood period. Litt...
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November 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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“The child would not be self-harming if they had a way to regulate their emotions in other ways. That's really quite a central thing to understand here.”

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#ChildMentalHealth #NonSuicidalSelfInjuriousBehaviour #SelfHarm
Understanding Self Harm in Young People | ACAMH Learn
Professor Dennis Ougrin discusses the complex issue of self-harm, including its causes, prevalence, and early warning signs. The film also features powerful insights from individuals with lived experience,…
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October 31, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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In this #OpenAccess JCPP Editorial, @katieburkhouse.bsky.social & Joan L. Luby propose a framework of mechanism-specific developmental windows of opportunity, in which the timing of intervention is considered alongside mechanistic target selection. https://bit.ly/4zF8MZh
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Mechanism-based prevention has transformed developmental psychopathology by shifting the focus from whether interventions work to understanding how they work through the modification of neurobehavior...
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October 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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How can we move beyond symptoms to understand what maintains #anxiety? Explore how #caseformulation can help #clinicians identify factors that shape difficulties and guide treatment.

Read the ACAMH 'Reflections from the Room' blog to learn more. https://bit.ly/47nuEvv
Using a case formulation to identify what maintains anxiety
Discover Professor Bryce McLeod’s five-step model of science-informed case conceptualisation, using a case of adolescent social anxiety to identify maintaining factors and guide treatment.
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November 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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The present study, by Thole H. Hoppen et al, represents the first comprehensive systematic review & meta-analysis on negative outcomes of psychological interventions for pediatric #PTSD, synthesizing data on dropout rates, deterioration, & adverse events. https://bit.ly/3UWxAfk
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Negative outcomes of psychological treatments for pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been underresearched. Although reporting has increased over the years, a comprehensiv...
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November 4, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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In this #OpenAccess JCPP Advances paper, Leonie Hofmann et al. explore predictors and moderators of problem-focused social skills training versus resource activation for children with disruptive behavior problems.

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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Not all children benefit equally from evidence-based treatments for disruptive behavior disorders (DBD). In a previous randomized controlled trial (RCT), computer-facilitated social skill...
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October 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Memory bias for negative information is an established phenomenon in adults with depression. In this #OpenAccess CAMH Review paper, Anett Schumacher et al. aim to synthesize current knowledge examining #memorybias and #depression in children and adolescents. https://bit.ly/4xv6pqI
<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Memory bias, the tendency to retrieve specific memories, is an established phenomenon in adults with depression. However, evidence on the link between depression and memory bias in childr...
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October 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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“Five years ago, we were having meltdowns, bad behaviour very, very regularly. Now it virtually never happens, which is just the most fantastic progress.”

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#ChildMentalHealth #ASD #NeurodevelopmentalDisorders
Living with Autism, Dan and Charlie 5 years on | ACAMH Learn
Five years after their first film, Dan and Charlie return to share an honest update on Charlie’s autism journey, reflecting on the progress they've made. Through lived experience, they highlight the value of…
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October 29, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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“social neglect, particularly reduced individualised care, has a deleterious impact on children's neural processing of faces”

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#ChildMentalHealth #Attachment #Brain
Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children…
Paula Oliveira on her JCPP paper ‘Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children and links to attachment disordered behaviour’.
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October 30, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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🧠 Understanding what’s happening beneath behaviour can help us work differently with children and families.

In this ACAMH Learn video, Dr. Emma Morris explores mentalising, its development, and the impact of #trauma and stress on #mentalising. https://bit.ly/3VHKUEL
October 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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How well does the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire detect clinically elevated posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms in children in care?

Any guesses...?

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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background It is well-established that children living in care are at far greater risk of mental health difficulties than their peers. This includes common and trauma-specific mental health conditio...
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October 30, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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#OpenAccess JCPP paper

Anna Morris et al. uses the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a large nationally representative dataset, to examine how objectively recorded physical activity relates to parent- & teacher-rated hyperactivity in 7-year-old children. https://bit.ly/4d4Is0V
<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Hyperactivity is a core symptom of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), yet no population-based studies have compared objective and subjective hyperactivity measures...
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October 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Hi John. For me, this 2021 article is really helpful for taking stock of what we know about autism from research, & recognising how science moves on - eg we can now see flaws & biases in UF & SBC lab-based research back in the day.

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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Since its initial description, the concept of autism has been firmly rooted within the conventional medical paradigm of child psychiatry. Increasingly, there have been calls from the autistic communi...
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November 1, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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“most of the studies have shown that it can be a five to ten years delay before the right diagnosis and the right treatment is offered to the child”

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#ChildMentalHealth #ADHD #BipolarDisorder
The Challenge of Diagnosing Pediatric Bipolar Disorder | ACAMH Learn
What are the diagnostic challenges of pediatric bipolar disorder? Does family history and/or genetic factors have any impact? Can there be early intervention, and if so in what form? Professor Boris Birmaher…
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October 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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How can case formulation shape treatment for #socialanxiety in young people? Discover how identifying maintaining factors can inform CBT, exposure work and progress monitoring.

Read the ACAMH 'Reflections from the Room' blog to learn more. https://bit.ly/47nuEvv
Using a case formulation to identify what maintains anxiety
Discover Professor Bryce McLeod’s five-step model of science-informed case conceptualisation, using a case of adolescent social anxiety to identify maintaining factors and guide treatment.
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October 30, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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“the intention was not to create new outcome measurements or questionnaires, but really, to look at what's already out there and build consensus on what's working the best”

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#ChildMentalHealth #EatingDisorders
ICHOM patient-centered outcome measures sets: Eating disorders | ACAMH…
How can we better measure outcomes in eating disorder care? Dr Amelia Austin summarizes an international consensus project, highlighting its recommended outcome measures, the most effective tools, and optimal…
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October 26, 2026 at 8:31 AM