Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • young boy screaming and crying

    Breaking CAMHS Barriers: The Impact of Domestic Violence

    This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. Talks will be from Dr. Claire Powell, and Dr. Ruth Blackburn, both Senior Research Fellows at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, and Dr. Ania Zylbersztejn population data scientist in the UCL Child Health Informatics Group and the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre Applied Child Health Informatics Theme.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Group of friends sitting together using their mobile phones

    The Risks and Benefits of Social Media on the Mental Health of Adolescents

    This talk will explore the burgeoning use of social media by adolescents in today’s society.

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Cries. Poor fair-haired little girl closing her ears and sitting in the armchair while her parents shouting at her

    Words Matter: Understanding, Impact, and Prevention of Childhood Verbal Abuse

    Set of three webinars on Childhood Verbal Abuse (CVA). This is characterised by adults shouting, yelling, denigrating, and verbally threatening the child. These types of adult actions can be as damaging to a child’s development as other currently recognized and forensically established subtypes of maltreatment such as childhood physical and sexual abuse.

    Event type
    3 x90min webinars
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • two teenager brothers

    Responding to sibling sexual abuse – putting research into action

    This workshop will outline current knowledge and evidence in the sibling sexual abuse field and look at how that knowledge can be used to inform how we positively support a family’s journey, from identification of harm, safety planning and assessment, through to therapeutic intervention, case closure and aftercare support

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    Live Stream
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education

    ‘Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education’ will be led by Tami Alikhani. This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • aces story stem

    Story Stems – a window into a child’s internal world

    This webinar will cover the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) and its use as an assessment of a child’s attachment and internal representations. The SSAP consists of 13 narrative stems, to which the child provides their own story completions; information is thus gained directly from the child in a non-threatening context.

    Event type
    Webinar
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • sad little girl

    Assessing and understanding trauma: bridging the gap between research and practice

    The session will provide a bridge between research and clinical contexts of measuring trauma and adverse life experiences in looked-after children populations. Dr Saul Hillman, Richard Cross, and Katharine Anderson present

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • school children on tablet

    Trauma Aware Education

    Dr. Judith Howard, Associate Professor of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Dr. Lyra L’Estrange, Senior Lecturer in Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), will lead this session on Trauma Aware Education on ‘An education system solution to the complex systemic problem of child abuse and neglect: One Australian university’s approach’.

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    Live Stream
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  • Dr. Katie McLaughlin

    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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  • Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers

    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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