Children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health also often struggle with their sleep. Indeed disrupted or altered sleep has been associated with most psychiatric disorders (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Although a range of sleep difficulties can co-occur with mental health problems, a common difficulty is insomnia. As such this guidance will primarily focus on difficulties with getting to sleep and staying asleep.
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Sleep, and the Relationship with Anxiety and Depression in Adolescence – Dr. Faith Orchard
Talk from Dr. Faith Orchard, University of Sussex. This is free to watch, ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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‘CAMHS around the campfire’ – Sleep, anxiety, and depression
‘CAMHS around the Campfire’, is our a free live online journal club. This session was on Dr. Faith Orchard’s JCPP paper on sleep, anxiety, and depression, recorded on Thursday 10 December 2020. Please visit our Events page for details of upcoming sessions. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Sleep problems from infancy are linked with impaired well-being in middle childhood
Researchers in the USA and Australia have found that sleep disturbances from early childhood are associated with reductions in well-being at age 10-11 years old. Ariel Williamson and colleagues came to this conclusion after analysing data from >5,000 children enrolled in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children – Birth Cohort.
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Voice‐hearing in adolescence – ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’
FREE virtual journal club. Each 1-hour meeting will feature a new piece of research, which we’ll discuss in an informal journal club session. 17.00 UK, (USA – 12 noon ET, 11.00 CT, 09.00 PT). ACAMH Members will receive a CPD certificate.
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- Informal Journal Club
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Insufficient sleep might affect children’s emotional health
Data from a new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry suggest that insufficient sleep can affect emotional health in children. The study, conducted by Candice Alfano and colleagues, assessed the impact of sleep duration on different aspects of emotion in a cohort of 53 children aged 7-11 years old.
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The DSM-5 criteria for DMDD overlook children with context-specific impairing irritability
Impairing irritability is common in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but little is known about its prevalence across contexts. Now, data from a study recently published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health have shed light on the prevalence of context-specific irritability in ADHD and how it varies depending on parenting practices and sleep problems.
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CAMHS around the Campfire – ‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’ Faith Orchard et al (2020)
FREE live online journal club. Each 1-hour meeting will feature a new piece of research, which we’ll discuss in an informal journal club session. 17.00 UK, (USA – 12 noon ET, 11.00 CT, 09.00 PT)
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- Informal Journal Club
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- Online
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Emotional functioning in the transition from childhood to adolescence, and beyond – In Conversation with Professor Nick Allen
In this podcast, Professor Nick Allen, Director of the Centre for Digital Mental Health at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon talks about developmental transitions from childhood to adolescence.
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The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies
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- Training Day