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Self-harm-related mental imagery is common among young people who self-harm and increases likelihood of the behaviour. Clinicians should assess for these images in risk formulation and treatment, though careful approach is needed acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Digital interventions could transform youth mental health access—if we design them with users, grasp local contexts, and build systems to support them long-term. Learning from UK implementation, scaling globally acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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From @kapilsayal.bsky.social and team
www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/GJKS0519

ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs

Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trouble in Toyland 2025: A.I. bots and toxics present hidden dangers Tests show A.I. toys can have disturbing conversations. Other concerns include unsafe or counterfeit toys bought online.

toys that contain A.I. chatbots and interact with children...some of these toys will talk in-depth about sexually explicit topics, offer advice on where a child can find matches or knives, act dismayed when you say you have to leave, and have limited or no parental controls pirg.org/edfund/resou...

Female ADHD and Hormones - The Perfect Storm Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund, leads a session that explores the underrepresented biological differences between sexes in ADHD research and clinical practice, despite a growing awareness of ADHD in girls and...

Hormonal changes = unique ADHD challenges for girls & women. Discover evidence-based care at ACAMH “Perfect Storm” webinar with Dr. Borg Skoglund
Details: https://www.acamh.org/event/female-adhd-and-hormones/
#MentalHealth #WomenInMedicine

Dyslexia and developmental language disorder: same or different? Professor Maggie Snowling looks at how we understand the definition, development and relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD).

Interventions in the Early Years should maximize the possibility of strengthening the oral foundations for literacy – not just reading readiness but also vocabulary and narrative skills, is so important and often lost or forgotten when teaching! www.acamh.org/blog/dyslexi...

National Youth Agency logo on white and blue background. Text reads:" Youth Work Week 2025. Building brighter futures. Safe places, trusted support and opportunities to thrive."

It's #YouthWorkWeek. Youth workers, play an essential part in young people's health services, building relationships and making services welcoming.

#YouthWorkMatters

Dyslexia and effective learning: supporting the learner Gavin Reid argues that to support the learner with Dyslexia, we must develop an understanding of his/her individual needs.

To support the learner with Dyslexia, we must develop an understanding of his/her individual needs. This includes the learning preference that makes him/her unique and allows the learner to learn more effectively www.acamh.org/blog/dyslexi...

Morning everyone, it's National Learning Disability Nurse Celebration tomorrow- if you want an invite please email Steve.hardy@nhs.net and I will send it tomorrow morning

New research highlights promising paths to reduce anxiety in autistic individuals:

✓ Address intolerance of uncertainty
✓ Create sensory-friendly environments
✓ Empower proactive coping strategies

Free access to this important update ☛ tinyurl.com/5azstawx

In this episode of Talking Meds, Jonathan and Andy talk about those NICE guidelines that are highly relevant to pharmaceutical care but which tend to be overlooked, perhaps because they are a few years old, and because the urgent often drives out the important www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...

Graphic promoting the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures’ new “Other useful resources” feature. Green text and shapes explain that the feature helps users find connected resources and navigate to additional platforms from dataset pages. A smartphone mockup shows the Catalogue site with highlighted logos for Health Data Research UK, Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, and CLOSER Discovery.

🌐The #CatalogueMHM just got more connected!
The new ‘Other useful resources’ feature links the applicable dataset to related data, helping platforms work better together and creating a more connected data landscape!
Explore it here 👉https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/?content=home

If you enjoy that you might want to seek out the TV series Weissensee. Katrin Sass stars in that too and was so powerful. If you are able to watch it in the original German all the better (I think Netflix and Prime Germany have it)

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Advancing prevention science for maltreatment exposed children: predicting mental health symptoms with a combined neurocognitive vulnerability index - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Childhood maltreatment is an established risk factor for poor mental health, yet not all maltreatment-exposed children develop psychiatric symptoms. This highlights the need for individualised metrics...

New research published online and #openaccess in our #ECAP journal: Advancing prevention science for maltreatment exposed children: predicting #mentalhealth symptoms with a combined neurocognitive vulnerability index by Gerin et al:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

All in the Mind - Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? - BBC Sounds A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.

Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Evidence update - Vaping among teenagers: understanding its impact on mental health is urgent. Smoking is a causal risk factor for depression and anxiety. What about e-cigarettes? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Friday is #DLDday, the day we raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). And we REALLY need greater awareness.
Join us in supporting @radld.bsky.social to raise awareness of DLD.
Lots of resources at: radld.org/dld-awarenes...
#DevLangDis

Evaluation of the mental health transition navigation model in child and adolescent mental health settings: findings from a pre-post, mixed-methods study - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Most youth do not experience a coordinated and planned transition out of child and youth mental health services, which often results in discontinuity in mental health care. This gap in care has led to the development and uptake of novel interventions, such as the transition navigation model, to facilitate mental health care transitions. The transition navigation model is a research-informed intervention that aims to assess and improve youth’s transition readiness, identify their transition needs and goals, and support the transfer of care to adult or community mental health services. To evaluate the ongoing implementation of this model, we conducted a pre-post mixed-methods study involving youth participants accessing transition navigation services at two hospitals. Participants (n = 43) completed self-report measures on transition readiness, daily functioning, and mental health service use at baseline and 6-month follow-up. Twenty participants also completed qualitative interviews focused on understanding their experiences and satisfaction with the navigation service. Results indicate a significant increase in participants’ mean transition readiness score and a decrease in the number of emergency department visits from baseline to the 6-month follow-up. However, there were no significant changes in mean functioning scores or self-reported mental health symptoms. The quantitative and qualitative findings converged, indicating overall high satisfaction with the navigation service, with the primary gap in the service being the lack of communication maintained with youth while in the program.

Evaluation of the mental health transition navigation model in child and adolescent #mentalhealth settings: findings from a pre-post, mixed-methods study by Cleverley et al:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Neuroanatomical Variability and Early Substance Use Initiation: Insights from the ABCD Study Adolescence is a period of rapid brain development, making it a sensitive window for experiences that may shape long-term outcomes. A new study from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) p...

www.acamh.org/blog/neuroan...

Interventions to reduce self-harm in youth

The brilliant Prof Dennis Ougrin gives a 6min explainer talk on 'Interventions to reduce self-harm in youth'.

He highlights its link to suicide risk, and emphasises timely, therapeutic assessments, and immediate follow-up post-emergency room visits.

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This new paper builds on previous research reviewing the effectiveness of the Integrative Holistic Model of Play Therapy. Clinical outcomes collected over 5 years from normal practice settings are analysed using robust statistical testing playtherapy.org.uk/outcomes-and...

Go beyond symptom management—help your clients with #ADHD, and their families, thrive! Our Motivational Interviewing (MI) training covers practical tools to enhance self-efficacy & collaboration throughout the treatment process.

EARLY BIRD! https://bit.ly/44OwGnY

#CAMHS #CAMH

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research.

Does paracetamol cause autism? The short answer is: no. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/aut...

Debate section in this month’s @acamh.bsky.social CAMH journal:

Are we over-pathologising young people's mental health?

With Rachel Hiller, our perspective: “Research shows otherwise – mental health conditions are not being recognised or diagnosed in healthcare settings”

doi.org/10.1111/camh...

Latest child and adolescent mental health news in the ACAMH enews
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Includes...
CAMH journal #OpenAccess Special Issue
New ACAMH Learn video on #Parenting styles
Blog on #Autistic Adults Transitioning to Independence
Mind the Kids pod on #Anxiety & #Paranoia

Incorporating Motivational Interviewing into Evidence-Based Treatments for ADHD Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: the STAND approachThis presentation provides specialized training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) for professionals working with individ...

Join our webinar on 6 November 2025 (1pm) to learn how to address motivational challenges in ADHD, use Motivational Interviewing strategies to boost engagement, tailor treatment to personal goals, manage non-adherence, & support patient autonomy throughout the treatment process tinyurl.com/mr3bdzyh

Simple teacher assessments of language difficulties in first year predict academic struggles throughout primary school. Most children eventually get SEN support, but it's inconsistent & drops off at transitions. Early identification + sustained support needed tinyurl.com/439rm3hr