DOI: 10.13056/acamh.33232

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh discusses her co-authored CAMH journal paper ‘Intergenerational consequences of racism in the United Kingdom: a qualitative investigation into parents’ exposure to racism and offspring mental health and well-being’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12695).

Yasmin was the principal investigator on the TRADE project, which stands for ‘Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety and Depression in families’.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

• Definition of racism, what is currently known about the experiences of racism and how the experiences are linked to negative mental and physical health outcomes amongst those exposed.
• Why this area has been largely neglected in the research community within the UK, with most studies coming from the US.
• The bidirectional nature of parent and child experiences of racism with indirect effects impacting mental health and wellbeing in both generations.
• The difficulties in families where parent and child approaches differ in relation to active coping strategies and denial of racism.
• How one might reduce harms when talking about racism with children and young people.
• Protective factors and the importance of social cohesion, safe spaces and education.
• Recommendations for CAMH professionals.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.32140

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Barry Coughlan discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Risk rates and profiles at intake in child and adolescent mental health services: A cohort and latent class analyses of 21,688 young people in South London’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12246). Barry is the lead author of the paper.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

• The benefits and challenges of using routinely collected data.
• Insight into the ‘brief risk assessment’ measure and how it was implemented.
• Overview of the latent class analyses and how they decided which class to go with.
• How maltreatment and different forms of contextual adversity can interact with different forms of risk at the child level.
• Implications for clinical practices and researchers.
• The role of experts by experience in this research and how they enhanced the research project.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.30278

In this Papers Podcast, Dimitris Tsomokos discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12245). Dimitris is the first author of the paper.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

• The bidirectional association between sleep duration and sleep quality and depressive symptoms in adolescence.
• The reason behind using the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a large, population-based longitudinal birth cohort, in the study.
• The cross-sectional association between chronotype and depressive symptoms and the differences between the sexes.
• Can a ‘sleep catch-up mechanism’ mitigate risk for depression and are adolescence that are in tune with their circadian rhythms at less risk of depression?
• The implications for policymakers and child and adolescent mental health professionals.
• Gender differences and eveningness.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21909

In this podcast, we are joined by social epidemiologist Dr. Rebecca Lacey of the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London,to talk about her JCPP paper “Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children” (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13699). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include;

• With a sensitive period being defined as a point in time when maternal depression might have more of an impact on the child’s mental health, Becca elaborates on the importance of her paper’s assertion that the sensitive period continues through to adolescence.
• Emerging adulthood depressive symptoms were best explained by the accumulation of exposure to maternal depression, and not the infancy-sensitive period model.
• How findings will translate into practice
• Implications of findings for CAMH professionals and other health professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21750

In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Courtenay Norbury, Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communications at Psychology and Language Sciences, University of London, and director of the Literacy, Language, and Communication Lab, LiLaC, and Jo Saul, lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the same institution. They discuss their JCPP paper, ‘Prevalence and functional impact of social (pragmatic) communication disorders’, (doi:10.1111/jcpp.13705). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include;

• Providing insight into what the focus of the LiLaC lab is
• What social pragmatic communication disorders (SPCD) are and how they present.
• Social pragmatic deficits rarely occurred in isolation, but often occurred alongside structural language difficulties and/or autism symptoms, they share implications of this
• Recommended changes to better identify, diagnose, and support children with SPCD
• What mental health professionals, and those working in education, should take from their paper
• How to translate the research into practice
• The importance of improving communication between mental health and speech and language professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21689

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jessica Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Dr. Peter Franzen, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, discuss their JCPP paper, ‘Sleep influences daily suicidal ideation through affective reactivity to interpersonal events among high-risk adolescents and young adults’ (doi:10.1111/jcpp.13651). There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include;

• How they went about examining sleep as a proximal risk factor for suicide
• Their finding that short sleep may impair how teens can regulate their already intense emotions
•  Implications of their findings are for CAMH professionals
• How they envisage their findings will translate into practice
• Resources that listeners may find of use
• Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy makers.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances. 

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21594

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor in biological anthropology at the University of California.

Andrew is the first author of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) paper ‘Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa’ (doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13672), which is the focus of today’s podcast.

Andrew sets the scene by providing a brief introduction of how he came to be interested in this area of research, before turning to the paper itself and sharing a brief overview of the paper.

Andrew discusses the methodology used, including the challenges faced during the data collection, and shares the main findings from the paper.

Andrew then expands upon two interesting findings; the first being the finding that social support did not moderate the association between prenatal stress and psychiatric outcomes, and the second being that the prenatal stress exposure during apartheid is not directly associated with greater psychiatric morbidity during late adolescence.

With maternal age and past household adversity having been found to have an impact, Andrew also elaborates on these findings and their implications.

Furthermore, Andrew shares what the implications are of his findings for CAMH professionals, and comments on what role we should all be playing in recognising and addressing the ongoing legacies of colonialism, structural violence, and historical traumas, such as apartheid, in order to prevent future mental health inequities from emerging.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21511

14 – 18 November is Anti-Bullying Week. For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Sînziana Oncioiu, Professor Lucy Bowes and Carolina Guzman Holst to discuss bullying in children and adolescents. Sînziana, Lucy, and Carolina are all members of the Oxford lab of Risk and Resilience, Genes and Environment, known as the oRANGE Lab, at the University of Oxford.

As the principle investigator at the oRANGE Lab, Lucy begins by highlighting the main focus of the oRANGE Lab and providing insight into the definition of bullying.

Sînziana follows by discussing how prevalent bulling is, before Lucy comments on the various roles that young people take on when bullying occurs and why it is important to understand them.

Sînziana explores what is known about the link between bullying and mental health, with Carolina then commenting on how the relationship between bullying victimisation and mental health played out during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Lucy and Sînziana also discuss what makes some young people and children more likely to be targets for bullies as well as what factors make some people more likely to be perpetrators.

Carolina provides insight into the effectiveness of anti-bullying interventions and their impact on mental health, plus explores whether the current interventions are enough to support those most at risk.

With the oRANGE Lab having incorporated some innovative designs and technologies, such as virtual reality, into their studies, Lucy shares some examples and comments on what risk and protective factors have been identified by their research that help determine how a young person will fare if they’ve been bullied.

Lucy then comments on how social norms and other systemic factors influence the prevalence rates of bulling before Carolina shares what the implications are of their findings for teachers and other people in education, and also for CAMH professionals.

Furthermore, given that we know bulling is a major public mental health risk, Lucy shares what her message is to policymakers.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21410

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Séverine Lannoy, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioural Genetics.

Séverine is the first author of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) Open Access paper ‘Suicidal ideation during adolescence: The roles of aggregate genetic liability for suicide attempts and negative life events in the past year’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13653), which is the focus of today’s podcast.

Séverine sets the scene by sharing a brief overview of the paper and providing insight into the methodology used, before turning to the key findings.

With the paper’s results supporting the role of negative life events in suicidal ideation in both boys and girls, Séverine comments on what type of negative events stood out as being particularly impactful and what the implications of this paper are for professionals who work with young people.

Séverine then turns to the gender differences highlighted by the paper, including that for girls, suicidal ideation was associated with both negative life events and aggregate genetic liability (but not the latter for boys) and discusses how she accounts for this difference between boys and girls.

Furthermore, Séverine expands upon the interplay of genes and the environment in risk for suicidal ideation, as well as discusses how CAMH professionals might translate her findings into practice to improve risk assessment and screening procedures.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21352

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Matthew Hodes, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London.

The focus of this podcast is on the mental health of young refugees and asylum seekers.

To set the scene, Matthew starts by providing us with a brief introduction of how he came to be interested in the mental health of young refugees and asylum seekers and comments on the impact of psychological distress and psychiatric disorder as it relates to child and young asylum seekers and refugees.

Matthew discusses his Editorial Perspective, published in the CAMH, on the mental health of young asylum seekers and refugees in the context of COVID-19, and provides insight into what additional burdens the pandemic has posed to child and adolescent asylum seekers and refugees.

With his Editorial Perspective having suggested that services are increasingly inadequate for asylum seekers and refugees, Matthew comments on access to and provision of services for asylum seekers and refugees, as well as the types of barriers and challenges that affect this group.

Matthew then discusses what he has learnt from his experience as a practitioner, and from evidence-based research, in terms of need and best practice when it comes to the mental wellbeing of child and adolescent refugees and asylum seekers, plus shares his advice for CAMH professionals working with this group.

Having touched on hostile government policies, Matthew also comments on what socioeconomic interventions are known to support young asylum seekers and refugees and shares his message to policy makers.

Furthermore, with ‘Healing’ as the theme of Refugee Week 2022 (20 – 26 June), Matthew comments on how optimistic he is that healing is possible for dislocated children and young people.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21312

In this podcast, we are joined by Lucy Jonas, a children’s well-being practitioner at Westminster CAMHS, part of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Lucy is the first author of the JCPP Advances paper ‘A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the impact of childhood adversities on the mental health of LGBT+ youth’ doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12079. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include;

• How sexual orientation disclosure is linked with social anxiety disorder, phobia, and/or PTSD symptomatology
• Evidence that all outcomes in terms of mental health conditions were more prevalent and statistically significant in LGBT+ individuals compared to heterosexual youth
• Implications of her systematic review and meta-analysis for CAMH professionals when working with young LGBT+ patients or clients
• How schools should prepare for working with LGBT+ students
• What we should all be doing in terms of continued advocacy from communities and allies to support and empower LGBT+ youth
• Where to find resources to help
• Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy makers.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21276

TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that this podcast discusses self-harm, substance abuse, sexual consent, and behaviours that can be described as impulsive or risky.

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode focuses on managing impulsive and risky behaviour, and Blandine is joined by Ruth Pearse, from Parenting Special Children. This podcast also features clips from two young adults, Emily and Alex, who share their lived experiences of ADHD, and managing impulsive and risky behaviour.

Alex sets the scene by providing insight into some of the impulsive behaviours that he has acted on, with Emily then sharing how her ADHD has also impacted her behaviour.

Ruth provides further insight into what risky behaviour and impulsivity means for teens and young adults with ADHD, including examples of the types of impulsive behaviours teens and young adults engage in. Emily and Alex then share what types of impulsive and risky behaviours that they feel their ADHD has led them to take part in.

Ruth and Blandine comment on substance use as a risky behaviour before turning to other risky behaviours that are typical of ADHD in young adults and young people, including risky behaviours concerning driving, with Alex sharing his lived experience.

Ruth further explores the mechanisms of impulse and risky behaviour, shares why young adults and teens can be more at risk, and comments on some of the more subtle ways that impulsivity can affect young people.

Ruth and Blandine then provide insight into the effects of ADHD on sex, before turning to explore ADHD and criminal behaviour, with a particular focus on the young adult population in prisons.

Furthermore, Ruth, Blandine, Alex and Emily turn to discuss the impact that risky behaviour and impulsivity can have on family relationships, including: how a young adult can recognize when they’re being impulsive; how they can create a support system which can help them stay safe and in control; what you can do as a parent when your child engages in risky behaviour, and how you can support them.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21226

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode is the second of a two-part special on Women and ADHD, and Blandine is joined by Dr. Jo Steer, a clinical psychologist, and Emily, Anita, and Firdawsi – three young women with lived experience of ADHD.

To set the scene, Emily begins by discussing her ADHD journey, with Anita then sharing how, as a young woman, ADHD has impacted her life. Firdawsi follows this by sharing an overview of her diagnosis timeline.

Jo and Blandine then discuss what the other common co-occurring conditions are that women with ADHD struggle with and comment on the risk of untreated ADHD.

Emily then shares her thoughts on how her ADHD affects her as a woman and Firdawsi provides further insight into her own ADHD lived experience, including problems with sleep.

Emily also comments on her experience of being diagnosed with ADHD, including the difficulties she faced in getting her diagnosis, with Anita then sharing her own diagnosis journey.

Jo then explores how societal expectations of gender play a role in the misdiagnosis of women and girls before sharing her key message that women need to know about the effects of ADHD on them.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.28984

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Tom Cawthorne and Professor Roz Shafran discuss their JCPP Advances paper ‘Do single-case experimental designs lead to randomised controlled trials of cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for adolescent anxiety and related disorders recommended in the National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines? A systematic review’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12181).

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

• How the single-case experimental design (SCED) approach works and insight into the construct of the hierarchy of evidence.
• How the review was conducted and why they focused on adolescent anxiety.
• Adolescents as an under-researched population and the practical challenges around the SCED design.
• The evidence that the SCED design can be a helpful approach and can provide high-quality research evidence.
• The implications for researchers and research policymakers as well as CAMH professionals.
• Could using SCEDs more effectively lead to future NICE guidelines better representing the adolescent population?
• The recommendations that emerge from the paper.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21203

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode is the first of a two-part special on Women and ADHD, and Blandine is joined by Dr. Jo Steer, a clinical psychologist.

Blandine and Jo begin by discussing how ADHD can look so different in different people and explain the gender differences in the presentation of ADHD, before turning to explore why women and girls are more commonly missed than boys in terms of diagnosis.

Blandine and Jo provide insight into why it is so important to get a diagnosis, and comment on how female hormones can affect ADHD, with Blandine sharing her own lived experience perspective.

With women with ADHD more at risk of teenage pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, and more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviour, Blandine and Jo look at what women with ADHD need to consider in planning and managing their physical health.

Blandine and Jo then turn to explore what they think is different of ADHD in women as opposed to men, with Blandine commenting that, for her, the main difference lies in how people see ADHD and how people see you with a diagnosis of ADHD as a woman.

Furthermore, Blandine and Jo share their key takeaways that women need to know about the effect of ADHD on them.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21154

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure, a clinical psychologist and recent PhD graduate in clinical psychology and psychopathology from the University of Grenoble-Alpes, France.

Gwladys is the first author of the CAMH Review article, ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’ (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12486), which is the focus of today’s podcast.

Gwladys begins by giving us a brief overview of the paper, shares insight into what they looked at in this review and explains why it is so important to explore unaccompanied refugee minors’ experiences.

Gwladys comments on the methodology used for the review, before turning to the main findings, including that unaccompanied refugee minors often don’t trust mental health professionals, nor do they have a clear perception of what they do.

Gwladys then explores what CAMH professionals should be doing and thinking about based off these findings and shares insight into whether her review highlighted any types of interventions that were valued by unaccompanied refugee minors.

Furthermore, Gwladys shares what her message is to mental health professionals about how they might adapt their practice to better meet the needs of unaccompanied refugee minors.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21099

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode focuses on ADHD and sleep, and Blandine is joined by Emily El-Bahrawy, a young person with lived experience of ADHD, and Helen Tracey, a sleep practitioner with Parenting Special Children.

Helen begins by providing insight into the connection between ADHD and sleep, including why sleep is such a problem, and whether it is just bad sleep onset or if there is also an element of unsettled/poor quality sleep as well. Emily then shares her own experience of how her sleep is affected by ADHD.

Helen also expands a little bit about how poor sleep can exacerbate ADHD symptoms, and Emily shares how sleep difficulties and poor sleep has affected herself the day after a poor night’s sleep, including difficulties concentrating.

Helen and Blandine then discusses what the difference is between the sleep schedule of someone with ADHD, comments on how we can work with ADHD to both sleep better and wake up better, as well as shares tips on how to cope and adjust for times when we know we’re not going to get a good night’s sleep.

Furthermore, Emily and Helen each share three key takeaways to improving sleep with ADHD.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21036

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode focuses on adjusting to change with ADHD, and Blandine is joined by Anita Salimi, a biomedical science student at the University of Warwick and a lived experience perspective, and Dr. Anna Price, a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health.

To set the scene, Anna discusses what the specific challenges are during the transition to adulthood for people with ADHD, and comments on how we can recognise where our ADHD might impact us before we reach this transitional period. Anita then shares her own experience of this and considers how her ADHD affected her when she left home as a young adult.

From the Children and adolescents with ADHD in transition between children’s services and adult services (CATCh-uS) study, and from many other studies, we know that there is a gap in services in the UK, however Anna takes this opportunity to talk about what she found from the CATCh-uS study in terms of services for young adults.

With routine considered a key strategy in ADHD management, both Anna and Anita comment on how we can create new routines which will support us as young adults during this transition period, especially as the concept of routine collapsed and changes in routines are very important in a transition.

Anna then talks about how young people can identify the right support to move safely towards independence, with Anita sharing her own experience.

Furthermore, Anna and Anita comment on what young people can do to be as ready as possible to meet and bond with new people throughout these transitions and share their three key takeaway messages to preparing for big change.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20970

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

This episode focuses on giving yourself the right support and Blandine is joined by Ruth Pearse, from Parenting Special Children, and Chris, a university student with lived experience of ADHD.

Chris begins by discussing how it felt when he received his diagnosis and what the first big issues were that he faced following this. Chris also comments on how he identifies the key issues that he is struggling with and what his approach is to make a change, before discussing what type of support there is for young people and shares an example of his own experiences.

Blandine, Ruth and Chris then explore how talking about ADHD can make a difference and share what they found helpful to better understand how ADHD can affect you, including listening to other people’s experiences through podcasts or literature.

Blandine, Ruth and Chris also comment on how people with ADHD stay organised, with Chris sharing his own tips and tricks and Ruth discussing the importance of understanding ADHD to be able to create helpful strategies and find what’s right for you.

Furthermore, Chris and Ruth share their top three tips for giving yourself the right support and the key messages that they would like people to take from this podcast.

This podcast series for young people is supported by Clinical Partners. With the UK’s largest network of senior mental health professionals, Clinical Partners can help ensure your child has fast-tracked the right diagnosis and optimized treatment plan. For further information and advice for families and carers, search for Clinical Partners ADHD or visit their website.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20929

We are delighted to bring you the fourth podcast in our series that focuses on Tourettes Syndrome. Dr. Seonaid Anderson will be talking to leading players in the field, rising stars of research, clinicians, and experts by experience. In this podcast we speak to Dr. Tara Murphy, Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Dr. Murphy currently co-leads the Tic Disorder Service and Paediatric Neuropsychology Service.

The focus of this podcast is on cultural differences in tics and tic disorders.

Tara begins by providing an overview of what tic disorders and Tourette’s syndrome are, before exploring the gender bias of Tourette’s syndrome and what other co-morbidities or co-occurring conditions can occur alongside it.

With a number of misunderstandings existing about this condition, Tara comments on the issue of swearing and Tourette’s syndrome, and discusses research into self-harm and suicidality in the Tourette’s syndrome community.

Tara then explores whether there are differences between cultures or countries in terms of the expression of Tourette’s syndrome and shares why she is interested in researching tics and Tourette’s syndrome in different cultures or countries.

Tara also comments on a recent paper entitled “Why Don’t Children in Uganda Have Tics? A mixed-methods study of beliefs, knowledge and attitudes of health professionals”. She then discusses why Tourette’s syndrome may be just as prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa or in certain communities but access to services and health care may make it appear under-represented.

Furthermore, Tara explores what we might be able to learn from countries or communities where tic impact seems low, what the importance is of the awareness and acceptance of tics in the community, as well as the impact of social factors.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20871

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Alice Taylor, a clinical psychologist for CAMHS in Scotland, to discuss her co-authored CAMH review paper “Cultural adaptations to psychosocial interventions for families with refugee/asylum-seeker status in the United Kingdom – a systematic review” (doi.org/10.1111/camh.12547).

Alice begins by giving us with a brief overview of the paper and sharing insight into what they looked at in this review.

Alice provides some examples of cultural adaptations and explains how these differ from nonculturally adapted interventions, which are also known as treatment as usual.

Alice then explores this further by discussing the ways in which treatment as usual can act as a barrier to accessing quality mental health care for families with refugee and/or asylum-seeking status, before turning to explain how cultural adaptions could improve the situation.

Furthermore, Alice shares additional key takeaways from her review, comments on what the implications of her findings are for CAMH professionals, plus shares her message to policymakers based on her research.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20847

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Paul Croarkin of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, and Dr. Arjun Athreya of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the same institution.

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper ‘Evidence for machine learning guided early prediction of acute outcomes in the treatment of depressed children and adolescents with antidepressants’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13580).

Paul and Arjun set the scene by detailing what they looked at in this study, providing us with a summary of the paper, plus sharing insights into the methodology used for the research, before turning to the key findings.

In their paper, Paul and Arjun describe their work as representing a first step in establishing a symptom-based tool, and in this podcast, they detail what the next steps are, including how the tool could be used to measure a variety of other treatments. Paul and Arjun also comment on how this tool could be applied to extracting response trajectories to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Paul and Arjun then turn to the translational opportunities for their research, including how they envisage their research being translated and what the implications of their findings are for CAMH professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20792

In this podcast, we are joined by Lizzy Winstone, Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at Bristol Medical School, the University of Bristol.

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being, results from a longitudinal survey of 13 to 14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’ (doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12071).

Lizzy sets the scene by detailing a summary of the paper and sharing insight into the methodology used for the research.

In previous studies, distinctions are made between active and passive social media. Lizzy explains why her paper suggests that this distinction may be too simplistic and comments on the four classes of social media users identified in her paper – high communicators, moderate communicators, broadcasters, and minimal users – including how each of these different groups behave.

Lizzy then highlights the key findings from the paper and provides further commentary on her finding that moderate social media screen time was beneficial to well-being, in comparison to no use at all.

Lizzy also discusses if there were any gender differences in her research, plus what the implications are of her findings overall for CAMH professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20778

For this podcast, in celebration of Playday (celebrated each year across the UK on the first Wednesday in August), we are joined by Professor Helen Dodd, Professor of Child Psychology in the College of Medicine and Health at the University of Exeter. The focus of this podcast is on child mental health and the importance of adventurous play.

As Playday encourages families, communities, and organizations to consider how they can build better opportunities for all children to play, Helen sets the scene by giving a brief overview of why play is so critical for children and young people.

Helen talks to us about how the pandemic has affected children’s play, before turning to her research on adventurous play and why she sees adventurous play as an antidote to anxiety.

Helen also discusses her recently published data that shows a link between adventurous and outdoor play and children’s mental health, as well as explains why she suggests that adventurous play itself can mitigate the risk of anxiety and explores her hypothesis that adventurous play targets some of the specific cognitive behavioural factors associated with child anxiety.

Helen further comments on her research into parental attitudes, including what interventions and campaigns can help change parental attitudes to adventurous play for overinvolved or anxious parents, as well as discusses how avoidant children and inhibited children can be supported to become more adventurous.

Furthermore, Helen shares her message to educators, CAMH professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders when it comes to facilitating children to play in ways that may better support their mental health.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.30077

In this In Conversation podcast, Dr. Seonaid Anderson is joined by Dr. Maddie Groom, Dr. Holan Liang, Dr. Camilla Babbage, Emma McNally, and Dr. Andrew Curran for a round table discussion on Tics and Tic Disorders, such as Tourette Syndrome.

Discussion points include:

• The build-up of momentum and awareness raising around Tics and Tic Disorders.
• The lack of clear clinical pathways in many parts of the UK for how referrals for Tics and Tourette’s are dealt with.
• The importance of patient and family voices in service development and the challenges people with Tourette Syndrome are facing in accessing services.
• What can be done in terms of getting the attention of Commissioners or changing the structure.
• How NICE guidelines for Tourette Syndrome could change the field.
• How best to support healthcare professionals in their work regarding Tics and Tourette Syndrome.

This episode is part of The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s series on Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders. The series explores the evidence-based research on Tourette Syndrome, and other Tic Disorders, as well as the education, treatments, and research in this area.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20737

In this podcast, we are joined by Sally Hogg, Deputy CEO at the Parent Infant Foundation, to discuss early trauma and the importance of early relationships.

To set the scene, Sally starts by providing details about the 1001 days movement, which she coordinates, and details what it is about the first 1001 days of a child’s life that is so critical.

Sally discusses the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on mental and physical health and explores why we should be especially concerned about adversity that occurs early in a child’s life.

Sally talks about how early trauma impacts emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and social functioning, as well as tells us more about the importance of nurturing parent/infant relationships, and how its presence can help a child to be more resilient to negative events.

Sally then discusses how the relationship between babies and their parents can be strengthened, what her message is to CAMH professionals in terms of the role they can play, and her message to policymakers in terms of what they should be doing.

Furthermore, Sally shares her tips on how to reach those parents where there is disorganised attachment, who don’t access services, and how to signpost those families to services.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20683

In this podcast we are joined by student researchers Hannah Abdalla, Malaika Okundi, and Carl Simela. All three have been working on TRADE, which stands for Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety, and Depression in families. TRADE is a collaboration between researchers at the Center for Mental Health and King’s College London.

To set the scene, Hannah, Malaika and Carl provide insight into what TRADE is, how they gathered their data, and what the aims of the project were.

Hannah, Malaika, and Carl then share what drew them personally to this research project and why they think that there has been so little focus until now on the UK experience, in terms of the transmission of experiences of racism, anxiety, and depression in families.

Having met with parents and teenagers to talk through their experiences, during their research, Hannah, Malaika and Carl share their key findings, comment on what stood out to them, plus share what their expectations were when they started the project and whether these expectations were met.

Hannah, Malaika and Carl then discuss the importance of this research and what they have learned from the project, and from each other.

Furthermore, Hannah, Malaika and Carl share their advice to students embarking on their first research project, and comment on what makes them hopeful for the future.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20650

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Rebecca Rolland, a Harvard faculty member and author of The Art of Talking With Children, published by HarperCollins, to discuss how we communicate with children.

To set the scene, Rebecca begins by talking about what inspired the book, The Art of Talking With Children, and discusses in what ways she feels that digital media has impacted the way we communicate across and between generations, and also in particular its impact on the mental health of young people.

Rebecca touches upon the impact of the pandemic in terms of communication skills, before commenting on the importance of conversation, in particular daily conversation with kids, in supporting their deeper learning, to reduce conflict, to build their empathy, confidence, and creativity.

Rebecca talks about how to know if what we say to children is helpful, details what a quality conversation with children and young people looks like, and shares tips on how to adapt our conversations to help build empathy and confidence depending on a person’s developmental age.

Rebecca then discusses whether we should adapt our conversations depending on the role we play for a child, for example as a parent or as a teacher, and comments on how we can help children and young people to have quality conversations with their classmates and their teachers.

Furthermore, Rebecca shares her tips for CAMH professionals when conversing with children and recommends rituals and routines that help to bring quality conversations to everyday life.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20553

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jillian Halladay, registered nurse, clinical epidemiologist, and winner of ACAMH’s Research Trainee of the Year Award 2021.

Jillian begins by commenting on what it meant to her to have received the ACAMH Research Trainee of the Year Award in 2021, before providing us with an insight into her research examining the co-occurrence of substance use in youth in general and in acute clinical settings.

As principal investigator with the CAMP study, which sought to determine the feasibility of administering a standardized mental health and substance use assessment amongst youth admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit, Jillian tells us more about the study, its findings, and whether she envisions the standardisation being rolled out.

Having published several papers on student mental health and substance use, Jillian also discusses the importance of schools and teachers on youth mental health and substance use, plus provides insight into what types of schools had high co-occurrence of mental health and drug use based on her research.

Jillian then comments on her involvement in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a mental health literacy program for post-secondary staff, faculty, and graduate teaching assistants called Professor Hippo-on-Campus, plus discusses other recent research projects that she has been involved in.

Furthermore, with Jillian’s clinical and research roles being grounded in identifying, contributing to, and utilizing the best available evidence to improve the lives of youth, Jillian discusses how to go about translating evidence-based research into practice to really make a difference to young people.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20530

For this podcast, for Refugee Week, we are joined by Dr. Tina Rae, Consultant Educational and Child Psychologist and ACAMH Board Member.

The focus of this podcast is on child refugees and how best to support them within educational settings.

Tina talks to us about trauma and mental health as it relates to child and adolescent refugees and sets the scene by detailing what tends to happen in terms of initial entry into schooling, and education, when it comes to child and adolescent refugees.

Tina then discusses if schools do, or should, play a role in assessing and providing for the mental health needs of child and adolescent refugees and explores what more can be done to give staff training in this area.

Tina shares her advice and tips for teachers and teaching assistants who have pupils who are refugees, comments on what they can do to help these students settle into school life, plus talks about what other children at the school can do, or be encouraged to do, to help ease the process for their peers.

Furthermore, Tina also shares tips for educational psychologists who are working with children who are refugees and explores what we have learnt from the research in terms of need and best practice regarding the mental wellbeing of child and adolescent refugees within the context of educational settings.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20476

For this podcast, for Refugee Week, we are joined by Professor Panos Vostanis, professor of Child Mental Health at the University of Leicester, and founder of the organisation World Awareness for Children in Trauma (WACIT).

As an expert in the impact of trauma on child and adolescent mental health, Panos sets the scene by talking to us about trauma as it relates to child refugees and other young people in conflict.
Panos then turns to his work at WACIT and details what WACIT is and the goals of the organisation, before detailing some of the training services for CAMH professionals who work with refugees, asylum-seekers, and other vulnerable groups.

With WACIT also running interventions for children and young people themselves, Panos further discusses the work they have done with children and young people who are refugees or living in conflict zones, and shares what the outcomes were like.

As one of the aims of WACIT is to develop evidence based psychosocial interventions and capacity building for children living in conflict and disadvantage, Panos comments on what the evidence shows to be the best approach to take when it comes to working with children and adolescent refugees who’ve experienced significant trauma.

Furthermore, Panos talks us through two new projects aimed at improving services for refugee children internationally and shares his message to policymakers.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20426

For this podcast, for Refugee Week, we are joined by Dr. Hayley Rajpal, a child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialism in working with looked after children and their networks. Hayley’s thesis research explored the challenges of therapeutic engagement with unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, and this will be the focus of the podcast.

To set the scene, Hayley provides a brief overview of psychotherapy before turning to detail how she came to be interested in child and adolescent mental health as it relates to refugees and asylum seekers.

Turning to Hayley’s studies, where she explored the experiences of care networks providing therapeutic support to unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, Hayley shares some of the main takeaways from her thesis.

Furthermore, having touched on the impact of difference and diversity, plus racism and media perceptions, Hayley also shares what issues have arisen around difference and diversity when it comes to the provision of care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young adults.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20329

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Maria Loades, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath.

The focus of this podcast is on the Common Elements Toolbox (COMET), a study testing a digital intervention to help university students improve their wellbeing.

To set the scene, Maria provides us with an insight into what the COMET programme entails and describes some of the specific interventions that are being tested.

With the programme targeted at students, Maria details why she has chosen to focus on this particular demographic and discusses student mental health as well as the impact that the pandemic has had on students entering university.

As COMET was originally developed in the US, Maria shares what is already known about the COMET intervention from the USA, plus comments on the difference between COMET GB and COMET US, including adaptations to account for cultural differences.

Furthermore, Maria talks to us about the online survey itself, who the participants are, how they are recruiting participants, how many participants are needed, plus the timescale.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20231

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Mandy Steiman, clinical psychologist at the Azrieli Centre for Autism Research (ACAR) at the McGill University Health center.

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper ‘Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism’ (doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13565)

As co-author of the paper, Mandy sets the scene by detailing what they looked at in this study and gives us a summary.

Mandy provides clarification, and a definition, as to what language regression looks like, before turning to the methodology used for the research.

Mandy then shares the key findings from the paper and elaborates on her findings that children with language regression walked earlier and spoke their first word nearly a year sooner than the children without regression, and that language regression may have decreased impact over time, and that regressive patterns are not associated with worse outcomes.

Mandy further discusses what the implications are of these findings for families, and those assessing children and young people for autism, plus emphasises the importance of not ignoring language regressions.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.20057

In this podcast, we are joined by Akhgar Ghassabian, Assistant Professor at the Departments of Pediatrics, Population Health, and Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine, and Dr. Tonya White, Professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam.

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper ‘Adolescent gender diversity: sociodemographic correlates and mental health outcomes in the general population’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13588).

Akhgar and Tonya set the scene by detailing what their study looked at, providing us with a summary of the paper, plus insight into what methodology they used, before sharing some of the key findings from the research.

In their paper, Akhgar and Tonya point to an association between gender diversity and mental health symptoms in adolescents, and in this podcast, Tonya elaborates on the relationship between the two.

Akhgar and Tonya then comment on their finding that more females were likely to have a gender-variant experience than males, and that adolescents with gender-variant experience appear to have higher autistic trait scores in the study. Akhgar and Tonya also highlight what implications, if any, can be drawn from these findings.

With this study showing that, whilst less than 1% of parents reported that their children had gender-variant experience, 4% of children reported this, Akhgar and Tonya discuss why parents may often be unaware of gender diverse feelings in their adolescence and how parental awareness or attitudes make a difference in terms of mental health outcomes, before exploring what the implications are of their findings for CAMH professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.27660

In this In Conversation podcast, Dr. Seonaid Anderson is joined by Dr. Charlotte Hall, Dr. Tammy Hedderly, Joe Kilgariff, and Lisa Rudge for a round table discussion on Tics and Tic Disorders, such as Tourette Syndrome.

Discussion points include:

• The prevalence of Tics and Tic Disorders and to what extent are Tics and Tic Disorders still a misunderstood condition.
• Diagnosis as a gateway to getting support and the difficulty of receiving a diagnosis.
• The importance of increasing a general understanding of what Tics are.
• The impact of labelling and the language used and the surrounding discourse.
• The two main strands of treatment – the medication strand and the Behavioural Therapy strand – and the challenges of accessing treatment.
• Importance of collaboration between patient community, the associations and health professionals and how to get more patients involved in research.
• Overview of some current research projects, including the INTEND project and the ORBIT-UK study.
• The need for NICE guidelines on Tic Disorders to improve diagnosis, treatment, and management, and the impact of the lack of NICE guidelines on equity of services.

This episode is part of The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’s series on Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders. The series explores the evidence-based research on Tourette Syndrome, and other Tic Disorders, as well as the education, treatments, and research in this area.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19889

In this podcast, we talk to Will Mandy, Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions at the research department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London (UCL).

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper, ‘Mental health and social difficulties of late-diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13587)

Will is the first author of this paper and sets the scene by clarifying what constitutes as ‘late diagnosis’ when talking about autism in children, before turning to the paper itself and providing a summary of what they looked at in this study.

Will talks us through the methodology used and shares an overview of the findings, including further insight into why some children get missed and the role of diagnostic overshadowing. Will also mentions that girls were overrepresented in the late diagnosis group and explores why this might be the case.

With this study showing that the late diagnosed group had milder problems in early childhood, presumably making them harder to identify, Will comments on what more could be done to find, assess and correctly diagnose children, before discussing what the implications are of his findings for CAMH professionals.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19898

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Andrés Martin, Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor at the Child Study Center, and director of the simulated participant program, SPP, Teaching and Learning Center TLC, Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Jose Paez, also of the Yale Child Study Center, and Dr. Doron Amsalem, child and adolescent psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University.

The focus is on their co-authored paper “Destigmatizing Perceptions About Black Adolescent Depression, Randomized Control Trial of Brief Social Contact-based Video Interventions” (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13570), recently published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP).

Andrés sets the scene by providing a summary of their paper, detailing what they looked at in this study and why it was important to focus on Black adolescents in relation to depression.

Doron details the methodology used for this paper and describes the types of brief contact-based video interventions that were used in the trial, before discussing what differences they found in terms of stigmatised attitudes and help seeing intentions between the different groups featured in the study.

Andrés then provides insight into the kind of experiences that were described in the script that the participants watched, before Jose explains what a race by intervention interaction entailed in the context of this research.

Andrés and Doron share additional findings, including the importance of the exposure and dissemination of people’s lived experiences in terms of stigma, before Andrés and Jose discuss the implications of their findings for CAMH professionals working with racially stigmatized groups.

Furthermore, we hear about follow up research, including their work with transgender youth as well as using TikTok to help reduce stigma and to encourage people to seek help.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19805

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Emma Sciberras, Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and Dr. Julian Fernando, a lecturer in the same department.

The focus of this podcast is on their co-authored paper, ‘Climate change-related worry among Australian adolescents: an eight-year longitudinal study’ (doi: 10.1111/camh.12521) , published in the CAMH 2022 Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’.

Emma and Julian begin by providing an overview of their paper, detailing the methodology used, and sharing some of the key findings.

Whilst the paper determined that both the high persistent and increasing worry group reported greater engagement with news and politics, only those in the persistent worry group had higher depression symptoms. Emma and Julian provide insight into how they differentiated between high persistent and increasing worry, and discuss whether those with increasing worry are on a trajectory to become persistently worried.

Emma and Julian also discuss how the relationship between engaging with the news and politics and levels of worry and depression feed into one another and explore whether greater societal engagement is a healthy way of managing eco anxiety.

Following their finding that worrying about climate change may be associated with poorer mental health, but also greater political engagement, Emma and Julian share their advice for young people and their parents, comment on the implications of their findings for professionals working with young people and their families, plus reflect on what message policy makers should take from their findings.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19791

In this podcast we talk to Ana Maria Portugal, Developmental Neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher in developmental behaviour genetics at the Centre of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Ana was the first author of the recent Open Access JCPP paper, ‘Pupil size and pupillary light reflex in early infancy: heritability and link to genetic liability to schizophrenia’

Ana sets the scene with a summary of the paper highlighting what is currently known about the link between pupillary light reflex and hereditary neurodevelopmental conditions.

Ana discusses the methodology, key findings, including some surprising results relating to the association between the pupil measures and the polygenic score for autism. Plus of course Ana looks at the implications that the study has for researchers and clinicians, and what the next phase for research will be.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19695

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Aja Murray, lecturer in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and winner of ACAMH’s Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award 2021.

Aja begins by providing us with an insight into her background, her research interests, and her role as a developmental psychologist who specializes in mental health, before commenting on what it meant to her to have received the ACAMH ‘Rising Star’ Award in 2021, for best scientific contribution to child and adolescent mental health by a person within 10 years of their first published paper in a peer-reviewed journal.

With Aja’s primary research interests relating to the developmental aspects of mental health phenotypes and their comorbidity, with a particular interest in ADHD, autism, and conduct problems, Aja shares some recent highlights from her work.

As the deputy director of the Evidence for Better Lives Study, Aja also discloses the aims of this study, plus their findings so far. In addition, Aja also mentions her work with the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood with a focus on violence prevention. Aja also details further projects that she has been involved in, including securing grants for a project supporting student mental health, and another to address the adverse impacts of domestic violence during pregnancy.

Furthermore, Aja comments on the translation of evidence-based research into practice, why evidence-based research is so important when it comes to child and young people’s mental health, plus what can be done to disseminate and promote evidence-based science.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19594

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Joey Fredrick, a clinical psychology postdoctoral fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA, to tackle the question ‘Is sluggish cognitive tempo associated with circadian preference, sleep, and daytime sleepiness in adolescence?’. Joey is the first author of a paper on this topic published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP).

To set the scene, Joey provides us with an insight into what sluggish cognitive tempo is, before turning to his co-authored JCPP paper ‘A multi method examination of sluggish cognitive tempo in relation to adolescent sleep, daytime sleepiness, and circadian preference’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13568). Joey explores what he looked at in this study, provides us with a summary, and details the methodology that he used.

With adolescence being the ‘perfect storm’ for sleep issues, Joey details how he differentiated between normal adolescent sleep patterns and those who have sluggish cognitive tempo.

Joey then shares the findings from his paper and explains what the implications of these findings are for professionals working with young people and their families.

Furthermore, Joey also comments on whether he is planning some follow-up research and provides an insight into what else is in the pipeline for him.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19507

In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Lina Gega, professor of mental health at the University of York and honorary nurse consultant in psychological therapies at Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust. Lina is also a joint editor of the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, one of the three journals produced by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Lina sets the scene by providing an insight into how she came to specialise in cognitive behavioural therapy and digital mental health, as well as what makes digital media so applicable to child and adolescent mental health.

With the COVID pandemic having been an accelerator for digital technologies, Lina discusses her recently published paper on the impact of digital technology during the pandemic, including what conclusions she drew and how this impacts children and young people.

Lina also talks us through her work on several interesting projects and provides insight into their aims, plus findings. For a number of her projects, Lina has teamed up with colleagues from outside of academia to develop prototypes for digital tools for children with different emotional vulnerabilities.

Lina discusses what barriers and challenges she has faced when translating research into practise and explores how to overcome these to make a real difference to families.

Furthermore, as Lina has published over 70 papers, books, and book chapters, plus has worked with publishers, universities, NHS services, charities, and grant-awarding bodies as a research advisor and reviewer, Lina shares her advice for researchers, in particular those early in their careers who want to achieve and maintain high standards in the conduct and reporting of research.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19446

For this podcast, focusing on adolescent sleep, we are joined by celebrated neuroscientist Dr. Dean Burnett, author of The Idiot Brain and a speaker at a February 2022 live stream event, The enigma of adolescent sleep: misunderstood science and effective intervention.

Dean sets the scene by exploring whether there is a typical teenage sleep pattern and if so, how this compares to an adult sleep pattern.

Dean then provides insight into the impact that the stereotypes of teenagers as being lazy, staying up all night, and being a bit delinquent can have, as well as what aspects of the science around adolescent sleep are misunderstood.

Dean also explains how we should be supporting our adolescents who naturally might sleep at different times to us, and shares an insight into what societal and policy changes could be implemented to support adolescent sleep.

Dean talks to us about the impact of insufficient sleep on behaviour, ability to study, and on mental health; exploring the comorbidity with sleep problems and anxiety and depression, as well as whether the relationship between sleep problems and psychopathology is bidirectional.

Furthermore, Dean shares his advice to people with adolescent children who struggle with sleep, to those who work with children and young people, as well as to young people themselves. This includes tips for getting to sleep, and what point you should call for professional support to help a young person who’s struggling with their sleep.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19313

TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that this podcast discusses personal experiences of self-harm and suicide.

This University Mental Health Day, we are joined by two students, Rhiannon Hawkins and Nathan Randles, to discuss student mental health and what CAMH professionals need to know.

Rhiannon currently studies Geography at the University of Oxford and Nathan is a medical student at Keele University. Both Rhiannon and Nathan are also Young Representatives for the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Rhiannon and Nathan set the scene by providing insight into what University Mental Health Day is, why it is so important, and what the impact of the pandemic has been on student mental health.

Rhiannon and Nathan talk to us about their own personal history and experience around mental health. They discuss their own past experiences with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), and whether this support is still available as a student. Rhiannon also explores whether there is still stigma around students using mental health services at university and why some students may not access support.

Whilst both Rhiannon and Nathan describe quite robust systems of support within their own universities, they share their views on what else universities should be doing to support the mental health of their students, what message they have for policy makers, and what mental health professionals need to know about student mental health.

Furthermore, Rhiannon and Nathan discuss what message CAMHS professionals should take from University Mental Health Day and share how CAMHS professionals can get involved.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19272

For this podcast, we are delighted to interview aspiring academic psychiatrist Clara Faria, winner of the ACAMH 2021 Undergraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year Award and ACAMH’s first Young Person’s Ambassador.

Clara sets the scene by providing insight into what it meant to her to be recognised as ACAMH’s 2021 Undergraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year, as well as being named as the first ACAMH Young Person’s Ambassador.

Having been previously divided between doing paediatrics and psychiatric training due to her interest in working with children, Clara talks us through how she resolved this conflict and discusses how she became involved with research in mental health, her role as a research assistant at the Laboratory of Panic and Respiration, and how this sparked her interest in child and adolescent mental health.

Clara also explores how she balanced the combination of work, research, and study during her undergraduate studies, and shares tips for others who are following a similar path.

Clara talks to us about her current work on two different main projects. The first is a systematic review predicting factors in ADHD diagnosis at the University of Southampton, and the latter is a genome-wide association study of anxiety disorders in Brazil. Clara discusses what her role is in both projects and provides an insight into what each project entails.

Furthermore, as Clara’s research encompasses both the UK and Brazil, Clara explores what insights she has gained from this exposure to different demographic groups and different health systems, as well as why it is so important in the field of child and adolescent mental health to disseminate evidence-based science to the broader population.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.28954

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Matti Cervin discusses his JCPP paper ‘Efficacy and acceptability of cognitive-behavioral therapy and serotonin reuptake inhibitors for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a network meta-analysis’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13934). Matti is the lead author of the paper.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include:

• The importance of examining efficacy and acceptability of cognitive-behavioural therapy and serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the context of the pediatric population.
• The two domains of treatments that have an evidence base for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) – cognitive-behavioural therapy and medication.
• The difference between different forms of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) delivery – traditional in-person, remote CBT, and internet-delivered CBT.
• Difference between in-person CBT and internet-delivered CBT.
• Implications for policymakers and child and adolescent mental health professionals.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19158

For this podcast, we are honoured to be joined by criminologist Joanna Foster. Joanna has managed the London Fire Brigade Firesetters Intervention Scheme and now runs fabtic, a company specialising in fire setting behaviour by children.

Joanna provides insight into how common fire starting is in children, as well as at what age children start setting fires, and whether fire setting is different for young children and teenagers.

Joanna talks us through whether the prevalence, and risk, of fire starting is the same for boys and girls and explores what the evidence shows regarding why children and young people start fires, including why fire can be seen as a form of expression.

Joanna examines how we can identify a child who is at risk of setting fires, and discusses whose job is it to identify these children at risk, as well as what more need to be done to best support families affected by this.

Furthermore, Joanna shares her advice to parents and carers who are worried that their children are at risk of fire setting, or who are already setting fires, as well as her advice to children and young people who set fires. Joanna highlights an important message for policy makers and suggests useful resources for those listening.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19121

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Eila Kankaanpää, senior lecturer in health economics at the University of Eastern Finland.

The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper, ‘The long-term cost of childhood conduct problems: Finnish Nationwide 1981 Birth Cohort Study’ (doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13506).

Eila is a co-author of the paper and sets the scene by providing insight into her current role and what prompted her research in child and adolescent mental health.

Eila talks us through what her paper looks at, what the costs associated with conduct problems in childhood include, highlights the methodology used, and shares some of the key findings.

Eila provides further insight into her conclusion that the high costs justify the development and evaluation of interventions for childhood conduct problems. Eila then discusses what she would like to see done about this, as well as what area of research she would like to see being focused on.

Furthermore Eila mentions what message policymakers should take from her findings, what the implications are for practitioners, and what professionals working with young people and their families should also take from her findings.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.19061

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Sundar Gnanavel, Specialty Doctor CAMHS at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, and winner of ACAMH’s 2021 Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year Award.

Sundar sets the scene by providing insight into how he came to be interested in child and adolescent mental health, and what it meant to him to have received recognition for his work by winning ACAMH’s 2021 Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year award.

Passionate about teaching clinical psychiatry and using integrative methods, Sundar shares some of the methods that have proved successful, as well as what improvements he would like to see in the delivery of child and adolescent mental health services, and what changes are needed to enable this to happen.

Sundar details insights he has gained from exposure to different health care systems and different child and adolescent populations, having worked both in developing and developed countries, before talking about his co-authored paper exploring the challenges that COVID has presented to child and adolescent mental health researchers and, in particular, early careerists.