'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast

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 rec...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18958 In this podcast, we talk to Professor Catherine Ward of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town , South Africa, and winner of ACAMH’s Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP) Journal Best Paper Award 2021. Catherine, and colleagues, won ACAMH’s 2021 award for JCPP Journal Best Paper for their paper, published in 2020, on ‘ Parenting for lifelo...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18898 In this podcast, we are joined by Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr. Aisha Sanober Chachar, who is co-founder and Director of Synapse , Pakistan Neuroscience Institute. Aisha has a special interest in transcultural child and adolescent psychiatry. Having worked as a clinician in Pakistan, and having had her clinical rotations as a trainee in Nigeria and the...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18841 For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Catharina Hartman , Associate Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE) at the University Medical Centre, Groningen , and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of our Open Access journal, JCPP Advances . Catharina’s research team aims to advance the understanding of the on...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18654 In this podcast, we talk to Professor Mark Tomlinson of the Department of Global Health Institute for Life Course Health Research , Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper, ‘First 1,000 days: enough for mothers but not for children? Long-term outcomes of an early intervention on maternal depressed mood and chil...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18469 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Alex Neumann , of the VIB Centre for Molecular Neurology at the University of Antwerp, and Professor Henning Tiemeier , Professor of Social and Behavioural Science at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health in Boston and professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam . The focus is on their...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18457 In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Thorhildur Halldórsdóttir , Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at Reykjavik University in Iceland and Director of the Icelandic Behavioural Genetics Centre. The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP Advances paper, ‘Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Are girls struggling more than boys?’ ( https://doi.org/10.1...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18400 In this podcast, we hear from Dr. Johnna Swartz , Assistant Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California Davis . The focus is on the JCPP paper ‘ Reward- and threat-related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil ’ ( doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13496 ), co-authored by Dr. Johnna...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18322 In this podcast, we talk to Jessica Armitage , a PhD researcher currently based in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol. We hear about Jessica’s interest in understanding the factors that enable individuals to overcome experiences and adversity, plus what prompted her interest in this field. Jessica also discusses her co-authored JCPP Advances...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18254 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Ann Ozsivadjian , independent clinical psychologist and visiting senior lecturer at King’s College London , and Dr. Penny Williams , consultant speech and language therapist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital . Ann and Penny set the scene by explaining the difference between self-harm and self-injurious behaviours in the contex...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18071 In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Karen Mansfield, a postdoctoral research scientist from the School Mental Health Project,  and Associate Professor Mina Fazel , Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. The focus is on the JCPP Advances paper ‘‘ Covid-19 partial school closures and mental health problems: a cross sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17994 As the world focuses on the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) , we caught up with Dr. Laelia Benoit , a French and Brazilian Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, invited as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Yale School of Medicine . Laelia’s research focuses on ecoanxiety among children and adolescents, and she is a co-author of the recent paper ‘ Ecologica...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17546 For this podcast, we are honoured to spend time talking with Dr. Steph Lewis about the relaunch of ACAMH’s magazine, The Bridge . Steph is the Editor of The Bridge and a Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience , King’s College, London. Steph sets the scene by explaining what made her specialise in child and adolescent...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17700 In this podcast, we hear from neuroscientist Dr. Peter Manza and Dr. Rui Zhang of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland in the USA. The focus is on their co-authored Open Access JCPP paper ‘ Prenatal Caffeine Exposure: Association with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in 9-...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17482 In this podcast, we talk to Lauren Cross , a Research Assistant with CHARM , which stands for Child and Adolescent Resilience and Mental Health at the University of Cambridge. We hear about Lauren’s work as a research assistant with CHARM, plus her research on mental health and wellbeing in schools and inequalities during childhood and adolescence. Lauren also discusses h...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17392 The focus of this podcast is on a themed review for the NIHR   on the experience of children and young people caring for in mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient settings and explores the focus of the themed review, as well as its aims. We hear from Candace Imison , Associate Director of Evidence and Dissemination at the National Institute for Health Res...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17233 In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Melissa Mulraney , Senior Lecturer and co-leader of the Child Mental Health Research Centre at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, Honorary Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Editor of CAMH . Melissa discusses...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.17201 In this podcast we hear from clinical psychologist Professor Tim Dalgleish , director of the Cambridge Centre for Affective Disorders and Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. The focus is on the JCPP paper ‘ The early course and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in very young children:...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16988 In this podcast we talk to Dr. Ayten Bilgin about her JCPP Advances paper ‘Changes in emotional problems, hyperactivity and conduct problems in moderate to late preterm children and adolescents born between 1958 and 2002 in the United Kingdom’ , ( https://doi.org/10.1111/ jcv2.12018 ). Dr. Ayten Bilgin is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Kent, and development...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16924 In this podcast we talk to Dr. Lynnea Myer s about her JCPP Advances paper on Behavioural and Biological Divergence in Monozygotic Twin Pairs Discordant for Autism Phenotypes ( https://doi.org/10.1111/jcv2.12017 ). Dr. Myers is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. She has a double PhD in Nursing Science and Developmental Neuroscienc...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16841 In this podcast we talk to Dr. Hannah Hobson, Lecturer in Psychology and Researcher at York University, and head of the Emerald Lab (Emotional and Mental Health Research in Autism and Language Disorders). Hannah discusses language and communication problems especially their relation to non-language difficulties including social and emotional problems. She talks about why...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16772 In this podcast we talk to Dr. Polly Waite , Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford and at the University of Reading. Polly discusses her research on anxiety in adolescents, the Co-Space study on how families are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her recent JCPP Advances paper ‘How did mental health symptoms of children and adolescen...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16740 In this podcast we talk to Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh , post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London. We hear how Yasmin helped to set up the Twins Early Development Study, CoTEDS, her research on genetically informed methods to examine the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and her advice...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16634 In this podcast, we talk to our CAMH Editor in Chief, rofessor Bernadka Dubicka. Bernadka discusses her achievements at the Child and Adolescent Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, from which she has recently departed, together with the recent Honorary Professor role from the University of Manchester. Bernadka explains what can be done to translate research int...

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.16555 In this podcast we speak to Dr. Gemma Knowles, Research Associate of the Social Epidemiology Research Group at King’s College, London, and part of the REACH Project . REACH stands for Resilience, Ethnicity and Adolescent Mental Health. REACH is a study of adolescent mental health based in inner-city London, working with a group of just over 4,000 young people providing in...