PAPAYA aims to educate and empower parents on the mental health problems associated with smartphones and social media, and to help parents work together…
Teachers can support depressed children through careful observation, sensitive classroom adjustments, encouraging friendships, promoting healthy habits,…
This short film features real-life accounts of Depression experienced by young people. Through their words, we see the importance of early intervention…
Conduct Disorders are mental and behavioural problems in young people and the most common reason for a child to be referred to Child and Adolescent Mental…
Susannah became bulimic while still at primary school. She was a very active child and excelled in sports and dance. In this film, she shares her experience…
This short film features real-life accounts of Anxiety experienced by young people. Through their words, we see the importance of early intervention by…
Smartphones and Addiction
Dopamine is a brain chemical associated with pleasure. It is released when we anticipate a reward—similar to the excitement before…
In this film, we speak with children between the ages of 7 and 13 about their online experiences, what they have seen, and what they wish they hadn’t …
“Stigma” is a powerful film that explores how stigma affects children and the shame and embarrassment parents and caregivers may experience when others…
Professor Dasha Nicholls leads the Child and Adolescent Mental Health research team focusing on feeding and eating disorders. She is National Speciality…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children is characterized by intrusive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions)…
Iris is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and works with the national and specialist service for complex autism and neurodevelopmental disorders,…
It is characterised by difficulties in the areas of attention, level of activity and impulse control. These difficulties are present before the age of…
David Trickey, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre, offers advice to teaching staff faced with disclosures from children about traumatic…
Dr Petra Gronholm joined LSHTM in August 2024. Before this, Petra held positions at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's…
Dr David Trickey has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people, and their families since 2000, particularly following domestic abuse…
The young people in this film all have suffered the death of a parent at a young age. They share their communities' and schools' reactions and how we need…
The young people in this film all have suffered the death of a parent at a young age. They share their communities' and schools' reactions and how we need…
We are Nip in the Bud®
Nip in the Bud® was set up to encourage awareness about mental health disorders in children. These relatively common problems which…
Once you understand what a child is experiencing, the next step is knowing how to help. This collection offers practical, evidence-based strategies you…