The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research findings become practical questions about therapy, services and family life, with unusually close attention to how evidence works outside a study.
"Mind the Kids" keeps asking how child and adolescent mental-health research survives contact with real services. Jane Gilmore and Omar Taseeb often lead conversations with invited authors, moving from evidence and study design to clinical takeaways.
A psychotherapy debate makes room for sleep and fatigue, if you like your answers with caveats.
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A clear, measured discussion of trauma-responsive care, framing, and individual difference after adverse childhood experiences.
The episode treats trauma-responsive care as a practical question, not an abstract slogan, and that is where it lands best. It stays with adverse childhood experiences, framing, blame, timing, and coping, and keeps the focus on how young people actually live through harm.
Lower-level intimate partner aggression still matters for children, even if the data cannot settle every severity level.
The episode takes a measured look at whether lower-level intimate partner aggression can still affect children, and it keeps the focus on what the research can support.
A practical discussion of care status and why broad screening tools need closer follow-up.
Mind the Kids is clearest when it sorts out who counts as a child in care, and why that label can cover foster and kinship care, children"s homes, secure units, hospitals, and young offender institutions.
A careful look at when fatigue moves beyond ordinary tiredness.
Fatigue is treated as more than ordinary tiredness here. Jane Gilmore and Omar Tassib link it to depression in young people, and the point is made that sleep alone will not fix it.
A careful discussion of genetic and environmental influences that stays close to what the data can support.
The episode frames genetic and environmental influences on young children s neurodevelopmental traits as a question best handled with restraint.
A careful look at a surprising finding, with enough caveats to keep it honest.
This episode follows a careful interview around a finding that sounds improbable at first: some autistic children can use letters, numbers, or even a language not spoken at home or in their social circles.
A careful look at poverty, brain plasticity, and the open questions around resilience.
Mind the Kids treats child poverty as a question of child development and family life, and it moves through brain plasticity and resilience without trying to pretend the answers are simpler than they are.
A grounded case study in co-designing trauma-informed spaces with young people.
Hot Chocolate Helping Trauma gives a grounded look at co-designing trauma-informed spaces with young people in Dundee. Hot Chocolate Trust and its collaborators did not rely on abstract talk; they used building boards, mood boards, spray paint, stencils, photographs, and other…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Jane Gilmore and Omar Tassib open the episode by grounding trauma-responsive care in a research-led conversation about intervention following adverse childhood experiences.
Jane Gilmore and Omar Tassib open with a direct question about special educational needs and diagnostic labelling.
Jane Gilmore and Omar Taseeb open with a look at genetic and environmental influences on neurodevelopmental traits in young children.
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A panel from ACAMH explores the Home from Home project at Hot Chocolate Trust in Dundee, where young people co-designed trauma-informed spaces in their youth centre alongside architects, psychologists, and youth workers.
The hosts open by framing autism within the wider reality of co-occurring neurodevelopmental and mental health difficulties.
ACAMH’s Mind the Kids episode, “Building Blocks: how genes, motor skills, and family shape language,” follows Mark Tebbs talking with Dr.
Mark Tebbs hosts Nicole Harris on ACAM Learn’s Mind the Kids episode about nature connectedness, educational psychology, and child mental health.
Mind the Kids: Genetic Clues to Classroom Struggles follows Mark Tebbs speaking with Marie-Pierre Larousse of the University of Turku about a JCPP paper on polygenic scores, attention problems, and academic achievement.
ACAMH’s Mind the Kids episode features Mark Tebbs with Dr Georgina Hosang, Reader at Queen Mary University of London, discussing subclinical hypomania in adolescents.
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Mark Tebbs hosts ACAM Learn and speaks with Dr.
Mind the Kids: Inpatient Insights focuses on hospital admission for children and young people with significant or complex mental health needs, with Dr.
Host Mark Tebbs interviews Dr.
The episode revisits the psychotherapy debate through the lens of child and adolescent mental health.
The discussion begins with a definitional question.
Mark Tebbs opens on the service cliff.
Clara welcomes Dr.
This episode explores the impact of less severe intimate partner aggression on child conduct problems, featuring Dr.
Two clinical psychologists provide an accessible and deeply informative discussion about Tourette's syndrome, sparked by the BAFTA-winning film I Swear.
Host Mark Tebbs interviews Dr.
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The hosts start with a working definition of meltdown.
An unexpected question drives the hour.
Mind the Kids looks at fatigue and depression in young people.
A discussion on the relationship between regular sleep and adolescent mental health, featuring personal anecdotes and research insights.
Host Mark Tebbs introduces the podcast and interviews Professor Kapil Sahil about the STADIA trial in child and adolescent mental health.
Host Mark Tebbs interviews Dr.
An interview with researchers about parental monitoring and its impact on child and adolescent mental health.
An interview with Associate Professor Thomas Gergo discussing his research on technology-based interventions for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions.
A podcast exploring the latest advancements in child and adolescent mental health research and practice through interviews with experts.
This episode discusses a randomized controlled trial of Social Stories intervention for autistic children in UK primary schools.
An interview with Professor Corey Keyes about his work on mental health, languishing, and prevention models.
An interview discussing the importance of collaborating with young people in mental health research, featuring authors of a paper on the topic.
An interview with researcher Stone Shih about the benefits of exercise for people with ADHD, based on a JCPP editorial.