'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast

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Sleep Parameters and Problems in Adolescents With and Without ADHD Feb 10, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13671
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Lena Keuppens discusses her co-authored JCPP Advances Research Review ‘Sleep parameters and problems in adolescents with and without ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis’. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice. This paper was the recipient of the 2024 ACAMH Awards JCPP Advances Best Paper Award.
Learning objectives:
1. The rationale behind the paper and the prevalence of sleep problems in adolescence with ADHD.
2. Comparing subjective and objective sleep parameters, sleep problems and sleep hygiene in adolescence with and without ADHD.
3. The importance of taking the subjective experience of sleep problems seriously.
4. The next steps for interventions considering the importance of sleep for mood regulation and for neurodevelopment.
5. Insight into a new sleep intervention for adolescents with ADHD called SIESTA (Sleep IntervEntion as Symptom Treatment for ADHD).

Peer 'Inside the Teen Brain' with Dr. Jane Gilmour Feb 06, 2025

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Dr Jane Gilmour talks about the new ACAMH series 'Inside the Teen Brain'.
Jane is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Hon) at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Course Director for postgraduate child development programmes at University College London, where she lectures on neuropsychology, neurodevelopmental conditions (Tourette’s syndrome, autism, OCD) and therapeutic issues. She has published numerous academic articles and chapters on these topics.
Her media presence, commenting on young people’s well-being, includes appearances on BBC TV, BBC radio and broadsheet press commissions.
How to Have Incredible Conversations with your Child (co-authored with Dr Bettina Hohnen) is her latest book. Using an innovative format, families use the book together in a shared experience to strengthen communication skills and their relationship. She wrote (with co-authors Dr Bettina Hohnen and Dr Tara Murphy), best-seller The Incredible Teenage Brain Book (Everything You Need to Know to Unlock Your Teen’s Potential) which has been translated into numerous languages.

S1: Optimization of Self- or Parent-reported Psychiatric Phenotypes in Longitudinal Studies Feb 04, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13668
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Franjo Ivankovic discusses their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Optimization of self- or parent-reported psychiatric phenotypes in longitudinal studies’. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Learning Objectives
1. The reliability and validity of consistent self-endorsement of a given psychiatric diagnosis.
2. Insight into the low agreement between parent-reported, child-reported, and clinician reported psychiatric phenotypes and why these different informants might report different levels of mental health difficulties when the target child is the same.
3. The over-endorsement and under-endorsement of symptoms of mental health difficulties when self-reporting and the impact on the prevalence of mental health conditions.
4. Insight into the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and the narrow diagnosis construct.
5. Whether there is evidence of a relationship between the over-endorsement of symptoms of mental health conditions and a high level of public awareness of the symptoms of those conditions.
6. The implications of this study for other researchers and to what extent over-endorsement is a problem across the board in cohort studies and population level investigations, as well as recommendations moving forward.

S1 Ep2: Inside the Teen Brain - A State of Independence Jan 27, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13664
In this episode, Inside the Teen Brain: Youth Experience in CAMHS, Isabella Plows shares her lived experience of accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and reflects on the key factors that supported her recovery. She highlights the importance of building trusting, consistent relationships with professionals, the value of clear communication, and the need for structured and goal-oriented care. Isabella also discusses the challenges young people face while waiting for services, offering practical suggestions such as regular updates, access to resources, and community-based support to bridge this gap. Emphasizing the importance of continuity, she highlights the value of extending CAMHS support to age 25 to better align with ongoing brain development and life transitions. This insightful conversation provides invaluable perspectives for professionals striving to improve services for young people.
Learning Objectives
A. To understand the importance of building trusting and consistent relationships with young people in mental health services.
B. To explore strategies for supporting young people during waiting periods for CAMHS interventions.
C. To identify opportunities for improving continuity and structure in mental health care for adolescents and young adults.

Special Educational Needs (SEN) Provision and Academic Outcomes: Exploring the Impact of Teacher Reported Language Difficulties at School Entry Jan 27, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13665
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Sarah Griffiths discusses her co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Special educational needs provision and academic outcomes for children with teacher reported language difficulties at school entry’. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Learning Objectives
1. Definition of Developmental Language Disorder and other language difficulties, as well as insight into the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES).
2. Context around the English education system and insight into when the identification of various types of difficulties typically starts to happen.
3. The types of Special Educational Needs (SEN) that children might be identified as having during the Primary years at school and the need to distinguish between children who have language impairments and other children who have English as an additional language.
4. The relationship between teacher reported language difficulties at school entry and academic performance at key assessment points throughout primary school.
5. For children with teacher-reported language difficulties at school entry, what predicts receipt of special education provision during primary school?

Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Differences in Autism Jan 21, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13662
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Nicky Greaves discusses her JCPP Advances Clinical Review paper ‘Emotion regulation difficulties and differences in autism including demand-avoidant presentations—A clinical review of research and models, and a proposed conceptual formulation: Neural-preferencing locus of control (NP-LOC)’.
Learning Objectives
1. Insight into a definition of emotion regulation and emotion dysregulation and what the research says about the emotion regulation difficulties and differences in autistic young people.
2. The impact of core autistic features on emotion regulation in autistic individuals and the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and demand-avoidant presentations in autism.
3. Effective and ineffective strategies for emotion regulation and the current models for emotion regulation differences for autistic young people.
4. How emotion regulation abilities develop in neurotypical populations.
5. Insight into the Neural Preferencing Locus of Control (NP-LOC) formulation hypothesis in autism and how the NP-LOC model can contribute to our understanding of anxiety and depression in autistic individuals.
6. The practical implications for education and clinical practice and the impact of early interventions and social understanding on emotion regulation in autistic children.

The Diminishing Association between Adolescent Mental Disorders and Educational Performance Jan 14, 2025

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13660
In this Papers Podcast, Associate Professor Magnus Nordmo discusses his co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘The diminishing association between adolescent mental disorders and educational performance from 2006–2019’. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Learning Objectives
1. If mental health difficulties have increased over time in the child and adolescent population and how different forms of symptom measurement can impact the types of trends we see.
2. What educational performance, independent of mental health conditions, has looked like in the last decade, with a particular focus on Norway.
3. Insight into the hypothesis that increases in mental health difficulties might be driven by pressure to do well educationally.
4. The mental health conditions explored in the paper and what indicators were used, as well as the indicators used for educational performance.
5. The ‘Prevalence Inflation Hypothesis’ (Lucy Foulkes) and how this applies to the findings from this paper.
6. The relationship between mental health disorders and educational performance at the extreme ends of educational performance.
7. The implications for how we view the narrative around increases in adolescent mental health disorders based on the findings and the ‘Paradox of Health’.

S1 Ep1: Inside the Teen Brain - Just be Yourself. Dr. Jane Gilmour talks to Prof. Deborah Christie Jan 13, 2025

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Watch the video at https://acamhlearn.org/Learning/Inside_the_Teen_Brain_-_Just_be_Yourself/1cda6d0f-b326-4e89-bd94-55fbfaf0654f
Description
In this episode, Inside the Teen Brain: Just Be Yourself, Professor Deborah Christie joins Dr. Jane Gilmour to discuss the complexities of identity formation during adolescence. Professor Christie explores how creative therapeutic approaches, such as metaphors and frameworks, can provide adolescents with a safe space to reflect on their strengths, abilities, and aspirations. The conversation highlights the significant role of peers, family, and supportive networks in shaping a young person’s sense of self. Professor Christie also emphasizes the importance of fostering environments where adolescents can explore their evolving identities in a positive and empowering way. Drawing on her extensive experience, she shares practical insights for professionals to help young people navigate this pivotal developmental stage.
Learning Objectives
1. To understand the key challenges adolescents face in forming their identity.
2. To explore how creative therapeutic techniques can empower young people to reflect on their strengths and aspirations.
3. To recognize the role of peers, family, and supportive networks in shaping adolescent identity.

Personalising Treatment in Child Mental Health: Leveraging and Extending IPDMA Methodology Dec 17, 2024

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13594
In this Papers Podcast, Professor Jennifer Hudson and Lizél-Antoinette Bertie discuss their co-authored JCPP Editorial Perspective ‘Extending IPDMA methodology to drive treatment personalisation in child mental health’. There is an overview of the paper, key findings, and implications for practice.
Learning Objectives
1. Define and summarise how Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis (IPDMA) works.
2. The limitations of randomised control trials, systematic reviews and conventional meta-analyses in terms of answering research questions about what works for an individual.
3. Why the study focused on anxiety disorders in the context of youth.
4. Messages that researchers should take from this Editorial Perspective.
5. How the researchers envisage the approach outlined in the paper moving the field towards evidence-based personalised mental health care and how this can be translated into practice.
6. Insight into PADDY (the Platform for Anxiety Disorder Data in Youth) and the need for, and importance of, the formation of a topic-based data repository.
7. The ethical risks and logistical challenges of the formulation of a data repository and how such challenges can be met.

Our Children are Our Future: Socio-economic Inequality and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Dec 09, 2024

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With our children being our future and our long-term societal wellbeing depending on them, Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson provide insight into their recent CAMH journal Editorial ‘Socio-economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health’. Richard and Kate are co-authors of the bestselling and award winning The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). Described by Penguin as ‘the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade’, The Spirit Level won the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize and was the 2012 Publication of the Year of the Political Studies Association. The New Statesman listed it in the Top Ten Books of the Decade, and the Guardian among the 100 most influential books of the century.
Learning Objectives
1. The relationship between socio-economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health.
2. What causes the lack of good data in low-and-middle income data.
3. The pathways and mechanisms through which socio-economic inequality affects child and adolescent mental health.
4. The three ways in which inequality effects mental health.
5. The framework for how socio-economic inequalities between societies interacts with socio-economic positions within societies.
6. Issues of causality.
7. What can be done to mitigate the impact of income inequality on child and adolescent mental health.
8. Current gaps in the literature that would be fruitful to address.

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