DOI: 10.13056/acamh.23841
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.23841

In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Dr. Mei Simmons discusses some of the factors that affect children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and provides an overview of her recently published book ‘A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q and A for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers’.

Discussion points include:

- The best, and some of the challenging, aspects of working in a CAMHS outreach service.
- The signs parents should look for and when they need to step in and seek support.
- Best ways of setting boundaries around use of technology.
- The impact of relationships on mental health and wellbeing.
- Advice to parents, teachers, and carers around spotting when a child is feeling lonely or isolated.
- What parents and teachers can do to help children build personal resilience.
- Recommendations to young people going through the system and struggling with their mental health.
- What needs to change at a policy level to improve service provision.

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DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26241
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.26241

In this ‘RESHAPE Study’ series episode, Professor Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Franki Mathews, and Dr. Kate Allen provide insight into the findings from the RESHAPE study with regards to how young people sought support for their mental health and accessed services during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

The ‘RESHAPE Study’ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the RESHAPE study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers, and mental health professionals.

Discussion points include:

- Patterns of service contact during COVID and how these findings can inform service provision.
- Insight into the qualitive interviews with parents and young people about their experiences with help-seeking and service access during COVID.
- The experiences of commissioners of child mental health services with regards to commissioning services and the challenges they faced.
- Main implications from the study for meeting children and young people’s needs.

RESHAPE or ‘REflecting on the impactS of covid-19 on cHildren And young People in England: exploring experiences of lockdown, service access and education’ is a large study looking at how life changed for children, young people, and parents during the lockdown and how this may have affected them. This is a follow-on study from the National Study of Health and Wellbeing: Children and Young people and is a joint effort between the University of Exeter, the University of Cambridge, King's College London and the NHS.

RESHAPE Study: Key Takeaways on Service Access

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.27589
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.27589

In this Papers Podcast, Cameron Hecht discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘When do the effects of single-session interventions persist? Testing the mindset + supportive context hypothesis in a longitudinal randomized trial’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12191). Cameron is the lead author of the paper.

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

Discussion points include:

- Definition of single-session interventions and how these types of interventions work.
- Insight into the ‘synergistic mindsets intervention’ and the ‘mindset + supportive context hypothesis’.
- The impact of supportive messaging on the effects of the intervention and the implication of this.
- Implications for researchers, and parents, carers, and teachers.

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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When do the Effects of Single-Session Interventions Persist?

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.27714
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.27714

In this Papers Podcast, Assistant Professor Jacqueline Samson and Associate Professor Martin Teicher discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Practitioner Review: Neurobiological consequences of childhood maltreatment – clinical and therapeutic implications for practitioners’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13883). Jacqueline and Martin are the lead authors of the paper.

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

Discussion points include:

- How childhood maltreatment alters threat detection and the impact of childhood maltreatment on the area and integrity of white matter tracts.
- What happens in terms of hippocampal and subfield activation.
- Definition and insight into the concept of latent vulnerability and ecophenotypes, and the impact of maltreatment.
- The problematic behavioural presentations that you would expect to see in individuals exposed to childhood maltreatment.
- Evidence-based tools for treatment and how knowledge about alterations in brain functioning changes the clinical approach to treatment.

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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Neurobiological Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment: The Implications for Practitioners

In this episode, our guests reflect on 25 years of NICE, how the organisation has developed, the impact its had and how it will change to adapt to the challenges of the next 25 years.

Guests: NICE CEO Dr Sam Roberts, Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Sir Chris Whitty, MHRA CEO Dame June Raine, Director of Value and Access at Association of British HealthTech Industries Luella Trickett, and Director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science Ben Goldacre.

Read more about 25 years of helping to get the best care to people fast: https://indepth.nice.org.uk/NICE-at-25/index.html

25 years of NICE and focusing on what matters most to deliver for the future

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.28495
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.28495

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. John Weisz discusses his JCPP paper ‘Research Review: The internalizing paradox – youth anxiety and depression symptoms, psychotherapy outcomes, and implications for research and practice’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13820).

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

Discussion points include:

- An explanation of what the internalizing paradox is.
- The five different possible explanations for the internalizing paradox.
- The differential comorbidities between anxiety disorders and depressive disorders.
- Insight into ‘variegated nature of polythetic conditions’.
- A definition of differential progress in the search for mechanisms of change.
- How differential complexity of evidence-based psychotherapy protocols relate to the internalizing paradox.
- The clinician's challenge.
- How the different perspectives suggest different treatment strategies and insight into these strategies.
- The limitations of current research and the possible avenues for future work.
- Implications for clinicians and how this research impacts interventions.
- Messages for parents and carers and the importance of parents/carers partnering with clinicians with regards to interventions.

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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The Internalizing Paradox - Youth Anxiety and Depression Symptoms

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.27603
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.27603

In this In Conversation podcast, Dr. Seonaid Anderson is joined by Professor Chris Hollis, who is leading a research team working on a research project about ADHD medication and Tics. The focus of this podcast is on this research project, called The SATURN Trial.

The full name of the trial is the ‘Stimulant Medication for ADHD and Tics – Understanding Response versus Non-stimulants (SATURN): a randomised trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of methylphenidate versus Guanfacine for ADHD in children and young people with a co-existing tic disorder’.

Discussion points include:

- Definition of Tics and ADHD.
- Potential challenges of differentiating between tics from a Tic Disorder, such as Tourette Syndrome, from other movements from conditions such as chorea dystonia myoclonus.
- Differentiating between stimming movements and tics.
- The reason behind The SATURN Trial and how it is funded.
- The effectiveness of non-stimulant medication in treating the symptoms of ADHD.
- Co-morbidity and Tic Disorders.
- Impact of the ongoing shortage of ADHD medication on patients.
- Why people should be encouraged to get involved in this research and the clinical implications from this research.

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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ADHD and Tic Disorders: Discussing the SATURN Trial

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.27597
https://doi.org/10.13056/acamh.27597

In this Papers Podcast, Maria Palma and Associate Professor Alice Goisis discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Medically assisted reproduction and mental health in adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13877).

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

Discussion points include:

- What the UK Millennium Cohort Study is.
- The differences in parental reports on adolescent mental health between MAR (medically assisted reproduction) adolescents and naturally conceived adolescents.
- The differences between adolescent self-reports and parental reports on adolescent mental health.
- The association between MAR conception and mental health outcomes in adolescents.
- Implications for clinical practice and researchers.

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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Medically Assisted Reproduction and Mental Health in Adolescence

We're joined by Mark Chapman, director of NICE's HealthTech programme and Verena Stocker, director of Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Strategy at NHS England to discuss the benefits and opportunities the proposed pathway will offer.

Take part in the consultation: https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/building-an-integrated-rules-based-medtech-pathway/

Learn more about the NICE and NHS England MedTech Pathway consultation

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.28954
https://doi.org/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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Which Treatments Work for Pediatric OCD?

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