ACAMH Awards Shortlist: Spotlight on Excellence in Research and Practice

Congratulations to the ACAMH Awards 2026 Longlist. Check out the full list and shine a spotlight on excellence in CAMH research and practice.

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Sleep deprivation impairs emotional adaptation to prolonged and ambiguous threat

Sleep problems are strongly linked to anxiety, but the psychological mechanisms underpinning this relationship are poorly understood. In this pre-registered study, we combined virtual reality, psychop...

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Realigning interpersonal regulation in everyday life : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne

<p> Our societies are becoming more socially disconnected. To address this problem, we need to understand how social connection is created. One powerful method to build social connections is interpersonal emotion regulation, which involves the processes through which people seek and offer emotional support. However, people report providing more emotional support than they receive, suggesting that the provision of emotional support is often unnoticed or unsuccessful. This project aims to understand and reduce this misalignment between the perception and provision of emotional support in everyday life. To do this, we investigate these processes in romantic couples, using new dyadic experience-sampling tools to capture both partners’ perspectives in real time. The project consists of three work packages. Work Package 1 will determine whether perception-provision misalignment is most frequently driven by the receiver or the provider, and which type of misalignment is more consequential for emotional and relational outcomes. Work Package 2 will identify the antecedents of perception-provision misalignment, establishing contextual, individual, and couple-level factors to see who is more at risk when. Finally, Work Package 3 will test a brief intervention to reduce misalignment between perception and provision of support. In determining when and why there are gaps between perceived and provided interpersonal emotion regulation, the project will generate practical methods to strengthen everyday social connection. </p>

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How sleep changes across later life, and what it means for mental health - National Elf Service

A large UK Biobank study tracked sleep in over 77,000 adults. Here's what the data reveals about age, sex and mood.

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<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Smartphones/social media have been hailed as offering educational benefits, but widespread concerns highlight multiple negative effects, including for learning and well-being. Some countr.....

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The longitudinal effects of social media on sleep among youth: A scoping review

Social media has become an integral part of our everyday lives, with nearly 5 billion users worldwide. Its ubiquity has sparked concerns about the pot…

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Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*

Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...

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