The Affiliation for Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being (ACAMH) has launched ACAMH Be taught acamhlearn.org, a brand new, free on-line studying platform providing video and podcast content material from greater than 200 world-leading psychological well being consultants.
ACAMH has over 60 years of expertise in elevating requirements in its area and publishes three journals (the Journal of Baby Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP), the Baby & Adolescent Psychological Well being (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances).
Many working on this space are struggling to search out the time or funds to participate in Steady Skilled Growth (CPD) actions, and ACAMH Be taught seeks to beat these boundaries. It additionally acts as a high-quality, reliable supply of knowledge in a world the place misinformation and myths can unfold shortly on-line.
The platform helps the CPD of psychological well being practitioners and clinicians, teachers and researchers, lecturers and social employees – in addition to being a dependable useful resource for folks or carers involved in regards to the psychological well being of their kids.
It features a vary of ACAMH-accredited CPD content material – from two-minute myth-busting movies by to in-depth skilled lectures – appropriate for a wide range of professionals, from these attending to grips with a brand new subject to these needing the newest finest apply. Content material on the platform covers a variety of points together with autism, ADHD, consuming issues, nervousness, suicide, self-harm and extra.
The location will likely be up to date with new content material on a weekly foundation, together with transcripts of all content material and provides free CPD certificates to customers. Customers can entry CPD content material anytime, wherever, on any system, that means that they will match their studying round different commitments, and customers can create a personalised library permitting them to choose up the place they left off and proceed their studying.
Dr. Mark Lovell, Deputy Chair of ACAMH and a Advisor Psychiatrist working within the NHS, says: “We’re delighted to launch ACAMH Be taught, which offers beneficial assets to a variety of various audiences working with, and caring for, kids and adolescents and younger folks. This may assist those that are new to a subject, along with those that are extra skilled, to realize skilled steering on the newest considering on a selected challenge. It is going to be significantly useful for these whose coaching was extra generalist and at the moment are trying to concentrate on specialising in baby and adolescent psychological well being.
“We all know that many CAMHS professionals, and their employers, see CPD as important and beneficial, however that budgets and schedules are tight. This platform is free, and allows folks to suit their studying round different commitments. We additionally see it as an essential step in preventing again towards a number of the persistent myths that may flow into round numerous psychological well being points, empowering folks to enhance their information and apply by partaking with the very best and most dependable proof out there.”
One consumer commented throughout testing of the positioning: “That is the type of psychological well being consciousness elevating that’s really useful giving these thinking about baby and adolescent psychological well being the chance to debate what they’re seeing with consultants who’ve intensive educational and scientific information.”
