Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Matthew Hodes, MBBS BSc MSc PhD FRCPsych, is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London, and Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are social and cultural psychiatry, including refugee mental health, the interface between mental and physical health, and evidence-based approaches to treatment. He is currently the Lead Editor for the Monographs of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professionals (IACAPAP). As part of his work, Dr. de Vries conducts research on adolescent health (sexual and reproductive, adolescent mental health, bullying in adolescents, health and education systems for adolescents, and intimate partner violence in adolescents), autism (screening and diagnostic tool evaluation and development, evaluation and development of interventions, health and education systems, and use of technology), and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC-assocationed neuropsychiatric disorders, clinical trials of mTOR inhibitors, and natural history of TSC).

Preface Matthew Hodes and Petrus J. de Vries

Introduction Matthew Hodes and Petrus J. de Vries

I. Children and adolescents in the digital age

1. Looking beyond the adverse effects of digital technologies on adolescents: the case for resilience and mindfulness François Hugo Theron

2. Cyberbullying in young people Dasha Nicholls

II. Innovations to improve our understanding of CAMH

3. Clinical applications of big data to child and adolescent mental health care Alice Wickersham and Johnny Downs

4. Machine Learning and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Challenges and Opportunities Paul Alexander Tiffin and Lewis William Paton

III. Innovative Approaches to Helping Young people in Adversity/ vulnerable groups

5. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Child and Adolescent Mental Health - What has Been Learnt and Lessons for the Future Tamsin Jane Ford and Tamsin Newlove-Delgado

6. Trauma-related psychopathology (including discussion of complex trauma and PTSD) Stephanie Jane Lewis

IV. Treatments for the future

7. The inflamed brain: implications of autoimmune encephalitis for child- and adolescent neuropsychiatry": a multidisciplinary approach Jan Schieveld, Husam Salamah, Nathalie Janssen, Kim Tijssen and Jacqueline Strik

8. Precision Therapeutics - Personalising Psychological Therapy for Depression in Adolescents Ian Michael Goodyer

V. Innovations in Treatment Delivery and Training

9. Delivering computerised CBT for child and adolescent depression and anxiety Paul Stallard

10. Innovations in scaling up mental health interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries: interventions in the perinatal period and promotion of child development Atif Rahman and Ahmed Waqas

11. Technology Enhanced Learning and Training For Child and Adolescent Mental Health Professionals Anthea Stylianakis, David J. Hawes and Valsamma Eapen

VI. Shaping the future of CAMH in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

12. CAP research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region – now and in the future Fadi Maalouf, Riwa Haidar and Fatima Mansour

13. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training in the Arab Gulf Region Ammar AlBanna