ACAMH

On 8 July 2026, ACAMH will host a workshop, Understanding the Adolescent Brain: From Research to Real-World Practice.

We caught up with one of the contributors – Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA FMedSci ...

Care experienced children and young people are much more likely to experience trauma and trauma-related mental health difficulties than their peers. Yet many do not receive timely support or access to treatments that are backed by evidence.

Recent research highlights that the challenge is not simply identifying distress but ensuring that care-experienced children can a...

The ACAMH Awards aim to recognise high quality work in evidence-based science, both in publication and practice, in the field of child and adolescent mental health. To be nominated for an ACAMH Award is a prestigious recognition of those who are at the forefront of the advancement of child and adolescent mental health research, and practice.

Nominations for the

When a child has been affected by relational trauma, it might be easy to assume that the child is the one who needs to be treated. But in practice, working with the child matters just as much as working with the adults who care for them and with the everyday relationships the child lives inside. That second part seems to be the one most easily overlooked.

The instin...

Autistic children and young people are more likely to experience adversity and traumatic events than their non-autistic peers. Yet, trauma is often missed in autism. Why?

Autistic young people may show traumatic stress in ways that do not match standard post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criteria, making identification more difficult.

Research shows higher ra...