Intervention
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Meet the expert: Practical Updates in ADHD, with Professor Samuele Cortese
We caught up with the presenter – Professor Samuele Cortese, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Southampton and one of the world’s most influential researchers in ADHD – about the topic itself, his career, and his hopes for the event.
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Meet the expert: Therapeutic Powers of Play, with Laura Hanks
On 17 March 2026, ACAMH will host a webinar Unlocking Therapeutic Powers of Play: Practical Techniques for Safe and Effective Play Therapy. We caught up with the presenter – Laura Hanks, a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales and BAPT Accredited Play Therapist with experience across public and private sectors – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event.
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Current Evidence and Clinical Practice
Research over the past decade have refined our understanding of ADHD epidemiology, neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment, with growing emphasis on evidence-based assessment, multimodal intervention, and shared decision-making with young people and families.
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Meet the expert: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A), with Dr. Jake Camp
We caught up with Dr. Jake Camp, who is a senior clinical psychologist in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a clinical academic fellow in King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, to discuss Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents, and his career.
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Autism and ADHD: diagnosis and demand in neurodevelopmental care. Emanuel Miller International Online Conference
HUGE EARLY BIRD SAVING! This conference will explore current debates around autism and ADHD, focusing on how scientific evidence, diagnostic practices, and rising demand for assessment intersect within contemporary neurodevelopmental care. Bringing together leading experts, the programme will examine how changes in diagnostic frameworks, service pressures, and social contexts shape who receives a diagnosis, when, and with what implications for young people, families, and services.
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- Emanuel Miller International Conference
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- LIVE STREAM
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Creating Safety Before Speech: A Nervous System Approach to Selective Mutism
EARLY BIRD FROM £5! The session explores the connections between early development, emotional regulation, movement, retained primitive reflexes, and the nervous system, illustrating how these systems interact to shape a child’s capacity to engage, relate, and communicate. It places particular emphasis on how safety, predictability, and reduced pressure can support regulation and communication across both home and school environments.
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- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM
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Complex Mental Health Needs: When Services Come Together for Service Innovation
EARLY BIRD FROM JUST £5! The event seeks to emphasise the importance of collaboration among agencies when standard practices fall short in meeting the needs of children and young people (CYP).
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- Service Innovation
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- LIVE STREAM
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents: Evidence, Applications, and Emerging Considerations
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is a developmentally adapted, evidence-based intervention for young people experiencing emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. In recent years, a growing body of evidence such as randomised trials and meta-analyses have suggested DBT-A’s effectiveness across outpatient, inpatient, and community settings (Mehlum et al., 2014; McCauley et al., 2018; Kothgassner et al., 2021; Syversen et al., 2024).
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Navigating Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
We’re delighted to offer you a chance to learn from the very best – Dr. Boris Birmaher. The goal of this presentation is to present the difficulties and differential diagnosis of pediatric BD and the course and factors associated with its the course.
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- Advanced session
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- LIVE STREAM
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Professor Maggie Snowling on rethinking reading disorders
We caught up with Prof. Maggie Snowling, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St John’s College, to discuss her career, and more.
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