Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
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Dr. Katie McLaughlin
Dr. Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist with expertise in child and adolescent mental health and the Executive Director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and Knight Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She has a joint Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology from Yale University.
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2023 Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers
After another successful year for our three journals, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP), the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances, we are proud to present the top 10 most downloaded papers for each journal, published in 2023, as of 27 November 2023.
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Interplay of early negative life events, development of orbitofrontal cortical thickness and depression in young adulthood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Using a complete longitudinal design with four time points, we examined whether NLE during childhood and early adolescence predict depressive symptoms in young adulthood through accelerated OFC thinning across adolescence.’ Lea L. Backhausen (pic) and Jonas Granzow et al.
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Stress and mental health presentations in secondary school-aged young people – recording
This was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group, and was led by Dr. Ruth Blackburn and Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health present research on mental health in secondary school-aged young people.
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Mental health and care-experienced young people: are our mental health support services appealing and accessible?
Children in care are much more likely to experience mental health problems than young people in the general population. Early life experiences, such as abuse, neglect, parental drug-use or violence likely play a major part in this. So too could the instability that is often inherent in the care system.
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Adverse Event Monitoring and Reporting in Studies of Pediatric Psychosocial Interventions
In this Papers Podcast, Kalee Lodewyk discusses her CAMH journal paper ‘Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review’. Kalee is the lead author of the paper.
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Connecting the dots around unusual and distressing sensory experiences – recording for members
Free for members. This webinar and Q&A will looked at a range of projects to explore the breadth of lived experiences around unusual and distressing sensory experience to explore research priorities with young people, parents/carers, and important adults in their lives, such as teachers and mental health professionals.
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Connecting the dots around unusual and distressing sensory experiences – recording
Delegates only. This webinar and Q&A will looked at a range of projects to explore the breadth of lived experiences around unusual and distressing sensory experience to explore research priorities with young people, parents/carers, and important adults in their lives, such as teachers and mental health professionals.
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Trauma informed practice in safeguarding
Delegates only.
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ACAMH in collaboration with Child & Family Training presents a series of four online sessions on ‘Trauma informed practice in safeguarding – The provision of effective toxic stress and trauma informed responses and support for children and young people affected by abuse and neglect.’ -
Mentalisation – MBT-F (Based Treatment for Families) – recording
Professor Dr. K. ‘Eia’ Asen introduced the principles of Mentalization Informed Systemic Therapy (MIST) developed by Eia and Professor Peter Fonagy.
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