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Eating Disorders and CAMHS – Real Life Insights
Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are not straight forward; to celebrate eating disorder awareness week, we spoke to Marie Young (pic), a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorders Specialist Nurse, and Bea Fenske, an Eating Disorders Nurse, from Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS, to give us an overview of what it is like to work in a Community Eating Disorders Service.
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Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of CAMHS
In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Gwladys Demazure to discuss her recent CAMH journal paper ‘Unaccompanied Refugee Minors’ Perception of Mental Health Services and Professionals – A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’.
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CAMH services, integrative methods, and quality improvement
In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Sundar Gnanavel, winner of ACAMH’s 2021 Postgraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year Award, about teaching clinical psychiatry, the use of integrative methods, CAMH services, and quality improvements.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2021
With the patchy but increasing roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, and as the world begins to emerge in a bumpy fashion from strict lock-downs, the frightening experience of overwhelmed hospitals and alarmingly high mortality rates from COVID-19, we are beginning to take stock of the huge toll from the pandemic.
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Day in the life of a CAMHS professional
For this year’s International Women’s Day we wanted to celebrate the work of female CAMHS professionals.
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Dr. Sian Barnett has kindly written a blog to explain the work she does as a CAMHS clinician, the challenges she has faced, and the women that inspired her to enter a career in this field. -
The importance of acknowledging difference in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Single case studies are often used in psychoanalytic psychotherapy research to identify potential mechanisms of change. Sean Junor-Sheppard undertook such a study, which was published in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy in 2019.
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January 2021 – The Bridge
This issue of The Bridge features summaries of recent child and adolescent mental health research. I hope you enjoy reading about this excellent work which improves our understanding of a wide range of conditions and informs mental health care for young people.
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‘Creative approaches to developing skills for future CAMHS professionals’ In conversation with Dr. Carlos Hoyos
In this podcast we talk to Dr. Carlos Hoyos, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, undergraduate lead for psychiatry at the University of Southampton and ACAMH’s 2020 winner of the David Cottrill Education of CAMH Professionals Award.
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December 2020 – The Bridge
Welcome to the December 2020 issue of The Bridge. This year has been extremely challenging for our field, as we’ve needed to understand and address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on young people’s mental health.
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CAMHS services in our physically distanced world
On March 23rd 2020, the way healthcare was provided in England had to change overnight. With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the country, CAMHS staff had to adapt to the news that they must provide routine services from home where possible and all non-urgent face-to-face contact must cease to prevent the spread of the virus.
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