ACAMH

In November, ACAMH will host a two-part short course Assessment Tools and Interventions for Emotion (Dys)Regulation: Practical Approaches.

We caught up with the course leader – Dr. Alessio Bellato, Lecturer in C...

Adolescence is a time of major physical, social, and brain development, beginning with puberty and continuing into the mid-20s. Research in developmental neuroscience shows that the teenage brain is highly sensitive to social information, including peer evaluation, rewards, threats, and the wider environment.1,2

These changes create both vulnerability and opportunity....

Two shifts in childhood OCD and body dysmorphic disorder are worth paying attention to. Several environmental risk factors long taken for granted may be less directly causal than once assumed. And the bottleneck in helping young people seems to lie less in what works than in who can reach it.

For most clinicians...

Childhood and adolescence are pivotal periods for mental health development. Mental Health conditions contribute significantly to illness and disability among young people and, whilst globally around 8% of children and 15% of adolescents experience a mental disorder, most do not access the care or support they need. (

Primary to secondary school transitions have been widely recognized as a challenging process for students entering adolescence.1-3 During times of transition, students face a variety of challenges, including adapting to an unfamiliar environment, leaving close friends and adults behind, making new friends, and meeting new academic standards.4

For these reasons, adolesc...