The Anna Freud Centre have made a range of free to access Podcasts about Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Top Experts Interviewed about Core Clinical subject. Fantastic resource. Available here: https://www.annafreud.org/parents-and-carers/child-in-mind/
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CAMBRIDGE CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL
Read here about the incredible new specialist childrens’ hospital being established in Cambridge. This is the Gold Standard that all paediatric settings should be aspiring to – full integration of body and mind. https://www.cambridgechildrens.org.uk/our-hospital/healthcare-services/integrated-models-of-care/ “Tradition has always kept mental and physical care separate. Siloed off by specialisms, disconnected across wards, split between hospitals miles apart. There is anContinue reading “CAMBRIDGE CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL”
NICE Guidelines on Self Harm and LBC Radio Interview from 2018
Key Data in Young Peoples Health – November 2021
The Association for Young People’s Health produces Key Data on Young People. The 2021 edition is the first to be published as an online resource, in a new “Youth Health Data Hub”. It provides a wealth of data on different aspects of young people’s health and lives over recent years. This ‘Overview and policy implications’Continue reading “Key Data in Young Peoples Health – November 2021”
Integrated Care – Recent Paper from ACAMH Journal on Liaison working
Sharp rise in acute medical beds occupied by children with nowhere else to go
Why Children “End Up” on Acute Medicine Wards
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (eletter, 2016)
The role of Paediatric Mental Health Liaison teams 03 March 2016 Rory J P ConnBJPsych eletter in response to paper by Ford et al “Needs and fears of young people presenting at accident and emergency department following an act of self-harm“ “I would like to thank the authors for producing the most significant (and accessible) paper that IContinue reading “BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (eletter, 2016)”
VITAL SIGNS – BMJ Column (2018)
Each working day begins with an email from the paediatric ward, informing me of the number of children admitted overnight in various states of mental distress. Most commonly these are young people who have self-harmed or attempted suicide. These are paediatric emergencies. Previously, numbers of these acute presentations felt practically and emotionally ‘manageable’: resources couldContinue reading “VITAL SIGNS – BMJ Column (2018)”
“Sometimes the healthiest wheel is the squeaky wheel: Why children and young people come to the attention of health services, and the meanings made of this”
Psychiatrists and psychologists recognise that a child’s behaviour, when unusual, troubling or troublesome, is often a reflection of a disturbance in the system around them. This is an unconscious process. The function of that behaviour can be to draw the attention of professionals to that which is (or should be) concerning: abuse or neglect, parentalContinue reading ““Sometimes the healthiest wheel is the squeaky wheel: Why children and young people come to the attention of health services, and the meanings made of this””
Connected Child Health 