Martin Pratt
@martinpratt.bsky.social
CEO @ The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social, disseminating free to access evidence updates every day. Get free ACAMH accredited CPD/CME and certificates @ https://acamhlearn.org
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🤔 Did you know that young people spend on average 30% of their waking hours at school?
🏫 Check out our new video for Day 2 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, where our colleague Josh Wood went back to his secondary school to interview one of the teachers...
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🏫 Check out our new video for Day 2 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, where our colleague Josh Wood went back to his secondary school to interview one of the teachers...
youtu.be/itO_Y3eB4sw
What Do Secondary School Teachers Think About Adolescent Mental Health? #cmhw
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February 10, 2026 at 7:39 AM
🤔 Did you know that young people spend on average 30% of their waking hours at school?
🏫 Check out our new video for Day 2 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, where our colleague Josh Wood went back to his secondary school to interview one of the teachers...
youtu.be/itO_Y3eB4sw
🏫 Check out our new video for Day 2 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, where our colleague Josh Wood went back to his secondary school to interview one of the teachers...
youtu.be/itO_Y3eB4sw
The feeder’s quiet king—woodpecker arrives, drills suet with focus, departs in a whirl of spotted flight
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The feeder’s quiet king—woodpecker arrives, drills suet with focus, departs in a whirl of spotted flight
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For just £5 - Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education, 3 March https://bit.ly/4ljcjW0
Book now to identify the critical elements of whole-school trauma-informed practice that benefits all stakeholders
Book now to identify the critical elements of whole-school trauma-informed practice that benefits all stakeholders
Why I didn't send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education
The COVID-19 pandemic catalysed a significant shift toward home education, revealing deeper systemic challenges within mainstream schooling. This study explores the psychosocial dimensions of this educational transition, with particular attention to fam...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:18 PM
For just £5 - Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education, 3 March https://bit.ly/4ljcjW0
Book now to identify the critical elements of whole-school trauma-informed practice that benefits all stakeholders
Book now to identify the critical elements of whole-school trauma-informed practice that benefits all stakeholders
According to the latest data from the Children of the 2020s study, higher screen use among children is linked to poorer language development and higher rates of emotional and behavioural difficulties www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...
Toddlers spending two hours on screens a day
Two-year-olds in England watch television, videos or other digital content for an average of two hours each day, double the daily recommended screen time, new UCL-led research finds.
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January 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM
According to the latest data from the Children of the 2020s study, higher screen use among children is linked to poorer language development and higher rates of emotional and behavioural difficulties www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...
The findings of this study do not support the widely held view that adolescent technology use is a major causal factor in their mental health difficulties academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
How do social media use, gaming frequency, and internalizing symptoms predict each other over time in early-to-middle adolescence?
AbstractBackground. The effects of adolescent digital technology use (e.g. social media, gaming) on their mental health are a major public health concern,
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January 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The findings of this study do not support the widely held view that adolescent technology use is a major causal factor in their mental health difficulties academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
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Young people describe some online mental health content as 'dangerous' – but what makes other content helpful?
✅ What helps & hinders youth mental health content use
✅ Tips for creating engaging content
✅ Youth-led solutions from researchers & young people
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
✅ What helps & hinders youth mental health content use
✅ Tips for creating engaging content
✅ Youth-led solutions from researchers & young people
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Young people describe some online mental health content as 'dangerous' – but what makes other content helpful?
✅ What helps & hinders youth mental health content use
✅ Tips for creating engaging content
✅ Youth-led solutions from researchers & young people
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
✅ What helps & hinders youth mental health content use
✅ Tips for creating engaging content
✅ Youth-led solutions from researchers & young people
#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
🧵 THREAD
While phonological skills remain essential for early decoding, oral language provides the broader conceptual and linguistic foundation for comprehension and academic success. A comprehensive approach is therefore needed www.acamh.org/blog/rethink...
Rethinking Reading Disorders: Language Foundations, Risk Pathways, and Protective Factors
Understanding how children learn to read requires a comprehensive understanding of language, phonology, cognition, and environmental factors. While phonological processing deficits have long been cons...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
While phonological skills remain essential for early decoding, oral language provides the broader conceptual and linguistic foundation for comprehension and academic success. A comprehensive approach is therefore needed www.acamh.org/blog/rethink...
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It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
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dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
Evaluating What Works: An Intuitive Guide to Intervention Research for Practitioners
Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective this work has been: would change have occurred if there wa...
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January 3, 2026 at 8:42 AM
It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
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Please give generously if you can and repost - 1/2 of us will experience cancer
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I am completing the London Winter Run on 15th February 2026 for Cancer Research UK. Please support my fundraising and help me reach my target to raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Please give generously if you can and repost - 1/2 of us will experience cancer
www.winterrun.co.uk/s/27912/110578
www.winterrun.co.uk/s/27912/110578
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In this #OpenAccess Debate paper, Katrina E. Champion et al. examine Australia's landmark decision to ban social media access for children under the age of 16, set to take effect in Dec 2025, & discuss empowering parents and schools. https://bit.ly/4pRVW51
<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this article, we examine Australia's landmark decision to ban social media access for children under the age of 16, set to take effect in December 2025. While the legislation aims to protect young...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In this #OpenAccess Debate paper, Katrina E. Champion et al. examine Australia's landmark decision to ban social media access for children under the age of 16, set to take effect in Dec 2025, & discuss empowering parents and schools. https://bit.ly/4pRVW51
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#PansPandasHour
For some families, Christmas brings sudden neuropsychiatric crisis
I'll be back NY — still pushing for all clinicians to hear this #MedSky
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For some families, Christmas brings sudden neuropsychiatric crisis
I'll be back NY — still pushing for all clinicians to hear this #MedSky
@jennyedwards.bsky.social
@martinpratt.bsky.social
@emergencybod.medsky.social
@marcusedwards.bsky.social
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NHS England welcomes work of PANS PANDAS Steering Group - PANS PANDAS UK
Welcome to PANS PANDAS' news blog. This post is titled: NHS England welcomes work of PANS PANDAS Steering Group
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December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#PansPandasHour
For some families, Christmas brings sudden neuropsychiatric crisis
I'll be back NY — still pushing for all clinicians to hear this #MedSky
@jennyedwards.bsky.social
@martinpratt.bsky.social
@emergencybod.medsky.social
@marcusedwards.bsky.social
panspandasuk.org/post/nhs-eng...
For some families, Christmas brings sudden neuropsychiatric crisis
I'll be back NY — still pushing for all clinicians to hear this #MedSky
@jennyedwards.bsky.social
@martinpratt.bsky.social
@emergencybod.medsky.social
@marcusedwards.bsky.social
panspandasuk.org/post/nhs-eng...
Get our free ebook sharing some of the evidence from across our events from this year. Thank you for joining us, we look forward to seeing you next year as we continue to share high-quality, evidence-based learning
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December 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Get our free ebook sharing some of the evidence from across our events from this year. Thank you for joining us, we look forward to seeing you next year as we continue to share high-quality, evidence-based learning
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Got the dreaded ”we see something unusual on your mammogram results” phone call yesterday. Went back in this morning for another mamo and ultrasound. The radiologist looked at everything and said “You’re all clear!”
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Got the dreaded ”we see something unusual on your mammogram results” phone call yesterday. Went back in this morning for another mamo and ultrasound. The radiologist looked at everything and said “You’re all clear!”
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
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Is your service on our mental health sector map?
Our mapping tool helps to:
✅ Spot gaps in provision
✅ Showcase the value of VCFSE orgs
✅ Connect members, partners and policymakers
Explore the map and add your service: https://amhp.org.uk/mental-health-sector-mapping/
#MHEqualityNow
Our mapping tool helps to:
✅ Spot gaps in provision
✅ Showcase the value of VCFSE orgs
✅ Connect members, partners and policymakers
Explore the map and add your service: https://amhp.org.uk/mental-health-sector-mapping/
#MHEqualityNow
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Is your service on our mental health sector map?
Our mapping tool helps to:
✅ Spot gaps in provision
✅ Showcase the value of VCFSE orgs
✅ Connect members, partners and policymakers
Explore the map and add your service: https://amhp.org.uk/mental-health-sector-mapping/
#MHEqualityNow
Our mapping tool helps to:
✅ Spot gaps in provision
✅ Showcase the value of VCFSE orgs
✅ Connect members, partners and policymakers
Explore the map and add your service: https://amhp.org.uk/mental-health-sector-mapping/
#MHEqualityNow
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Excellent work from @kirstieohare.bsky.social demonstrates just how many additional children and young people are being seen by CAMHS now compared to 20 years ago www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Excellent work from @kirstieohare.bsky.social demonstrates just how many additional children and young people are being seen by CAMHS now compared to 20 years ago www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Seventy years ago Leo Kanner's seminal paper describing autism coined the term “refrigerator mother”, apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices. Of course now we know that this is total nonsense www.acamh.org/blog/parent-...
The Parent Blame Game
Developmental language disorders
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December 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Seventy years ago Leo Kanner's seminal paper describing autism coined the term “refrigerator mother”, apportioning some of the cause for the distinctive profile of autistic behaviour to cold, harsh parenting practices. Of course now we know that this is total nonsense www.acamh.org/blog/parent-...
Trauma-informed care needs to be neurodivergence-informed care www.acamh.org/blog/beyond-...
Beyond ACEs: When Trauma-Informed Care Misses Neurodivergent Children
Trauma-informed care often overlooks neurodivergence, leading to missed diagnoses and support, as in James’ story. Research shows trauma, neurodevelopmental conditions and adversity frequently co-occu...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Trauma-informed care needs to be neurodivergence-informed care www.acamh.org/blog/beyond-...
[Open Access] About half of teens with high social anxiety also experience paranoia. Those with both report the highest distress levels, suggesting this overlooked co-occurrence deserves more research attention acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
[Open Access] About half of teens with high social anxiety also experience paranoia. Those with both report the highest distress levels, suggesting this overlooked co-occurrence deserves more research attention acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing." What fresh hell is this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK campaigners condemn ‘creepy’ digital billboards that can track viewers’ responses
Tech company has installed the advertising screens in hundreds of apartment blocks across 20 British cities
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing." What fresh hell is this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Self-harm-related mental imagery is common among young people who self-harm and increases likelihood of the behaviour. Clinicians should assess for these images in risk formulation and treatment, though careful approach is needed acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Self-harm-related mental imagery is common among young people who self-harm and increases likelihood of the behaviour. Clinicians should assess for these images in risk formulation and treatment, though careful approach is needed acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Digital interventions could transform youth mental health access—if we design them with users, grasp local contexts, and build systems to support them long-term. Learning from UK implementation, scaling globally acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Digital interventions could transform youth mental health access—if we design them with users, grasp local contexts, and build systems to support them long-term. Learning from UK implementation, scaling globally acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM