Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Towards Technological Advances and Service Innovations coincides with the 25th International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) Congress in Dubai from December 5-9, 2022. There are three overarching themes of this book. Firstly, the impact of the Internet and digital technologies on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, including computerized therapies, and the fundamental role of technologies to advance knowledge in the field. Secondly, a theme on harnessing the expansion of knowledge on psychiatric disorders and their treatment for children and adolescents, exemplified by chapters on different kinds of adversity in child and adolescent mental health and a chapter on precision therapeutics. Given the location of the IACAPAP Congress, the third theme focuses on aspects of child and adolescent mental health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Chapters provide insights into a broad range of contemporary technology- and service innovation-related topics in child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health. These include growing up in the digital age, cyberbullying, clinical applications of big data and machine learning, computerized cognitive behavioral therapy, technology- enhanced learning, lessons from COVID-19, new understanding of the consequences of psychological trauma, autoimmune encephalitis, and precision therapeutics in depression.

Acknowledging the global challenge of child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health, readers will find an emphasis on contextual challenges in the field, including innovations for scaling up of mental health intervention in low- and middle-income countries, and research and training in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

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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).

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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