Recently, the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) held its annual awards ceremony to recognise high quality work in evidence-based science in the field of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH).
Several research from the Department received awards for their advancement of CAMH research and practice.
Professor Cathy Creswell, OH BRC Mental Health in Development Theme Lead and Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology in the Department, was named as the winner of the “Translational Research into Practice” award.
This award recognises a sustained contribution to translating research into practice over several years, involving both research and either clinical or educational involvement in practice. The award also recognised Professor Creswell’s evidence of impact on clinical service provision.
It is such a privilege to receive this award for our work developing, evaluating and implementing psychological treatments for children. This has very much been a team effort and I am extremely grateful to fantastic colleagues and the many families who have very generously contributed to our work. -Cathy Creswell
Professor Creswell said: “It is such a privilege to receive this award for our work developing, evaluating and implementing psychological treatments for children. This has very much been a team effort and I am extremely grateful to fantastic colleagues and the many families who have very generously contributed to our work.”
Dr Eleanor Leigh, Associate Professor also working in the Department was the winner of the “Digital Intervention” award, which recognises an individual who has used information, data or other digital fields to put evidence into practice within CAMH services.
Dr Leigh said: “I am delighted to receive this award for our work on Online Social anxiety Cognitive therapy for Adolescents (OSCA), a digitally augmented psychological therapy for social anxiety in young people. I would like to thank the team, our wider colleagues, and all the young people and families who have been part of OSCA’s progress so far.”
The Child Anxiety Treatment in the context of COVID-19 (Co-CAT) Study team were recognised as highly commended in the “Research on Digital Impact” category which recognises the best academic publication on an information, data or digital topic relating to CAMH.
The Co-CAT Study investigated whether an online programme offering support to children with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic worked as well as other existing support services.
A paper authored by Mental Health in Development colleagues and led by Dr Jiedi Lei, and co-authored by Eleanor Leigh, ‘Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non-autistic adolescents’, was also recognised as highly commended in the ‘Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry’ Best Paper Award.
Read the full list of winners on the ACAMH website.
Congratulations to all!