Intervention

  • Supporting Families of Trans Youth: A New Toolkit Rooted in Lived Experience

    A new community-based participatory study highlights the importance of family support in improving mental health outcomes for transgender and nonbinary youth. Co-created digital stories reveal how open communication, shared reflection, and inclusive family involvement can reduce isolation, foster empathy, and build stronger connections. The result is a flexible toolkit designed for both professionals and caregivers.

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  • teen with knife

    Blades and Wounded Minds: exploring the links between youth mental health and knife crime

    FROM £5! This webinar examines the complex relationship between youth mental health issues—particularly trauma and anxiety—and the rise in knife crime among young people.

    Event type
    Half day conference
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • teen girl not wanting to eat

    CYP with Disordered Eating – the lost tribe: Understanding and Managing CYP not meeting the criteria for specialist ED services

    EARLY BIRD FROM £5! Too many children and young people struggling with eating difficulties fall through the cracks—unable to access specialist eating disorder services yet lacking the support they need within generic CAMHS teams. Without timely intervention, these young people face significant risks to their physical and mental health. Join us as we work to close this gap, prevent harm, and create a more inclusive and responsive system of care.

    Event type
    Half day conference
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Putting Sustainability at the Front of Digital Mental Health

    Research has indicated the urgent importance of embedding sustainable practice into research and healthcare. With the rapid deployment of AI and other novel technologies across healthcare, we must consider sustainability in the research and development of digital mental health technologies. Here, two mental health researchers reflect on their work in digital mental health and what is next for sustainable mental health research.

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  • Operationalizing the ICF Core Sets for Autism and ADHD: From Framework to Feasible Tool

    Alehagen, Bölte, and colleagues conducted a feasibility study to develop and user-test an online platform for the ICF Core Sets for autism and ADHD. The study found that the platform was easy to use, acceptable to participants, and capable of capturing the diversity of functioning profiles, with iterative revisions addressing user feedback. The tool is now ready for psychometric validation.

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  • Rachel Bryant-Waugh

    Understanding and Treating ARFID: From Clinical Assessment to Family Interventions

    EARLY BIRD UNTIL 31/07/25! Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a complex and heterogeneous eating disorder that continues to challenge clinicians due to its varied presentations and limited evidence base. Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh and Dr. James Lock, internationally recognised experts in the field, will offer complementary approaches to support practitioners working with children and adolescents with ARFID.

    Event type
    Masterclass
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • parent child therapy

    Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: What Makes Coaching Work? 

    A new study by Scherpbier et al. (2025) explores how therapists support parents in learning and using positive interaction strategies during Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Using 125 video-recorded sessions from 17 Dutch families, the authors applied lag sequential analysis to identify which therapist coaching techniques were most likely to encourage parents to use key interaction […]

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  • From Clinic to Kitchen Table: Exploring the Realities of Home-Based Psychological Care

    Early bird from £5! Often for a lot of professionals we do not know what the impact of going into the home environment is like for the individuals that we work with. This event helps us consider how we maintain boundaries and what conversations we should be having.

    Event type
    Live Stream
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • early bird

    Autumn Webinar programme

    Don’t miss the early birds! All events are centred around evidence-based research, and our speakers are some of the leading lights in the field. ACAMH is a charity, and we receive no government funding, nor do we ask for donations.

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  • From Isolation to Intervention: Loneliness and Youth Mental Health

    This Loneliness Awareness Week, please explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website and ACAMH Learn and do share with your networks.

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