ACAMH podcasts
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Genetically informed family research, and anti-racism in mental health research – In Conversation with Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh
We hear how Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh helped to set up the Twins Early Development Study, CoTEDS, her research on genetically informed methods to examine the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, advice for those considering a part-time PhD, and anti-racism in mental health research.
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The demand for CYP mental health during Covid “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis” – Professor Bernadka Dubicka
In this podcast Bernadka explains what can be done to translate research into practice, and what mental health professionals can do to influence policy. She details the key points of evidence she put across to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on Children and Young People’s Mental Health, including integrated care as being essential. She also elaborates on describing the increasing demand for children and young people’s mental health during the Covid pandemic as “a crisis on a pre-existing crisis”.
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Resilience, Ethnicity and Adolescent Mental Health (REACH) Project – In conversation with Dr. Gemma Knowles
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.
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School behaviour difficulties, school based interventions, and inclusive education – In Conversation with Dr. Alice Jones Bartoli
Dr. Alice Jones Bartoli looks at how well equipped schools and teachers are when it comes to dealing with child and adolescent mental health issues, and what more can be done to support teachers and leaders in creating mentally healthy schools, and in supporting the staff themselves.
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‘Longitudinal association between externalising behaviour and frontoamygdalar resting-state functional connectivity’ – Dr. Sandra Thijssen
In this podcast we talk to Assistant Professor Dr Sandra Thijjsen about her JCPP paper ‘the longitudinal association between externalising behaviour and frontoamygdalar resting-state functional connectivity in late adolescence and young adulthood’.
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‘Adolescent and maternal mental health before and during the pandemic’ – In Conversation Dr. Nicola Wright
This episode of our JCPP Advances series that focus on the papers and editors featured in the publication is with Dr. Nicola Wright, research associate at the department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Kings College London. Nicola discusses her paper ‘Interplay between long-term vulnerability and new risk: Young adolescent and maternal mental health immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic’.
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‘The contribution of complex trauma to psychopathology and cognitive deficits’ – In conversation Dr. Stephanie Lewis
In this podcast we talk to Dr. Stephanie Lewis, Clinical Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. She discusses complex trauma and her paper that was recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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‘Creating mentally healthy schools’ – In conversation with Professor Jess Deighton
We are honoured to spend some time talking to Professor Jess Deighton, about the role schools can play in young people’s mental health, about school-based interventions, and some insights from her latest research.
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‘What role should mental health costs play in the evaluation of public health interventions such as lockdown?’ In Conversation Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke
In this podcast we talk to Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience at King’s College London, and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP).
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‘The importance of comprehensive and transparent reporting’ In Conversation with Professor Henrik Larsson
In this podcast we speak to Professor Henrik Larsson, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Orebro University and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Editor in Chief of ACAMH’s new journal, JCPP Advances.
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