📢 Join us for a vital webinar on improving childhood admissions to mental health units!

🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12 - 1pm

Featuring new resources to support young people, families & healthcare professionals.

Full story: tinyurl.com/yv838w92
Register here: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2

💻 Clear information matters.
The ‘Knowing Where You Are Going’ guidance helps CAMHS units provide user-friendly website information, co-produced with young people & families.

🔔 Join the webinar (4 Nov): tinyurl.com/36zmpy6j

📥 Download guidance: arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-res...

🌟 New resources are available to help young people, families, and clinicians understand what to expect during CAMHS inpatient admissions.

These tools improve communication, offer reassurance, and provide vital support throughout the journey.

Learn more:
arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-res...

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...

This is one of very few long term studies of a brief early intervention to improve mental health in young children. The news is positive - we can make sustained improvements for children early in their lives. Something that early years practitioners know - now there is more research to back it up.

See the blogpost summarizing the paper by Stringaris et al below. For the original paper: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

#youthmentalhealth #depressiontreatment #depression

Join the EXPAND team for a free, interactive lunchtime webinar on supporting ethnic minority youth and families to access support for neurodevelopmental healthcare.

🗓️ 9 Dec | 🕧 12:30-13:30 | 💻 Online

Register:
🔗 institutemh.org.uk/events/event...

📣 New debate article… Are we over-pathologising young people's mental health?

Research shows otherwise - mental health conditions are not being recognised or diagnosed in healthcare settings

Using two large research projects, we highlight the mismatch…

Read on… doi.org/10.1111/camh...

STADIA trial summary Infographic 👇

Excellent Mental Elf summary of the ‘STADIA’ trial.

Many children and young people struggling to access mental health care, following referral, impacting on their outcomes.

@nihr.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @cypmentalhealth.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

Out today in BJPsych Open: Fragmentation in adolescent health care provision

In this editorial, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social describe the perils of fragmentation in adolescent health care and consider what's needed to enhance provision.

Read here ⬇️

📝 Just published! We have a new paper out in #ChildAndAdolescentMentalHealth on our service model: how clinicians & researchers at the Lab are using digital innovations to meet urgent needs in #CAMHS ⬇️

The paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The blog: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-pap...

Looks great Nina and super relevant for our STADIA work, would you mind sharing a copy of your poster with me? Hope it all went well today

Many Congratulations Dan!

‘STADIA’ trial: What we did & What we found…

Please share…

@nihr.bsky.social ‘STADIA’ trial… now in print in this month’s JCPP issue @acamh.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS, followed-up for 18 months.

New Summary Infographic in next post…

🧠 Excited for our upcoming webinar

🔍 Exploring the power of mixed methods in #MentalHealth #Research

📅 14 July | 🕐 1–2pm

📄 Featuring insights from an expert panel!

🔗 Don’t miss it! tinyurl.com/28t89jmm

@nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social

Our new paper is out in JCPP!

We used longitudinal network analysis to show how symptoms influence each other in adolescents participating in three types of psychotherapy for depression. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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‘STADIA’ trial: What we did & What we found…

Please share…

@nihr.bsky.social ‘STADIA’ trial… now in print in this month’s JCPP issue @acamh.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS, followed-up for 18 months.

New Summary Infographic in next post…

Looks excellent & a great set of CAMH journal articles... Wider service context and availability crucial, and codesign with young people and teachers, re next steps for the field.
Also very careful measurement and monitoring of unintended consequences, as highlighted in Myriad and Promise RCTs

Too many under-18s are still being admitted to adult mental health wards, despite national guidelines.

New research highlights the urgent need for age-appropriate care and better support for young people during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.

Read more:
arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/news/researc...

Exciting day for us - we're launching our study showing HUGE delays for children in foster care. Our paper is in Nature Medicine rdcu.be/ekep1 and a short animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwDu... @righttrial.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @rachelhiller.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social

Hot off the online press: Updates on digital mental health interventions for children and young people: systematic overview of reviews by Liverpool et al in our #ECAP journal:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#youthmentalhealth #mentalhealth #digitalinterventions #ESCAP