Evidence-based

  • Sad little child, boy, hugging his mother at home, isolated image, copy space. Family concept

    Complex Mental Health Needs: When Services Come Together for Service Innovation

    The event seeks to emphasize the importance of collaboration among agencies when standard practices fall short in meeting the needs of children and young people (CYP).

    Event type
    Service Innovation
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • DBTA adolescent girl staring into the distance

    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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  • Boris Birmaher

    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 Bipolar Disease and factors associated with its course.

    Event type
    Advanced session
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • maggie snowling

    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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  • Dr. Kim Golding CBE

    Working with families affected by relational trauma: building safety, connection and resilience

    This four-hour online training session with Kim Golding CBE will explore how relational trauma and attachment difficulties can shape children and young people’s emotional development, behaviour, and relationships.

    Event type
    Introductory to Advanced
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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    Practical techniques for managing social anxiety in everyday clinical work

    Associate Professor Eleanor Leigh will focus on social anxiety in adolescents, with a strong emphasis on developing practical clinical skills. This advanced session will be ideal for professionals in child and family mental health who have therapeutic experience with children and families.

    Event type
    Introductory to Advanced
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Reading child and parent

    Rethinking Reading Disorders: Language Foundations, Risk Pathways, and Protective Factors

    Understanding how children learn to read requires a comprehensive understanding of language, phonology, cognition, and environmental factors. While phonological processing deficits have long been considered central to dyslexia (Snowling, 2000; Vellutino et al., 2004), growing evidence suggests that reading difficulties can emerge from multiple developmental pathways, influence by a diverse combination of risk and protective factors (Hulme & Snowling, 2016; Catts et al., 2017). These individual differences underscore why some children struggle primarily with decoding, others with comprehension, and many with both.

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  • Mark Weist

    School mental health, with Professor Mark D Weist

    We caught up with the presenter – Professor Mark D Weist, Professor in the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of South Carolina and Director of the South Carolina School Behavioral Health Academy – to talk about the topic itself, his career, and his hopes for the event.

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    Understanding mental health challenges in autism and ADHD: A focus on schools as a source of emotional burden

    The aim of this event is to share insights and outputs from Regulating Emotions – Strengthening Adolescent Resilience (RE-STAR), a UKRI-funded research programme which is trying understand why young neurodivergent people are at elevated risk for mental health problems.

    Event type
    FREE live stream
    Location
    FREE live stream
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  • children in school playground

    Promoting Mental Health in Schools: Evidence-Based Strategies for a Stepped, Collaborative Approach

    Recent research has highlighted the advantages of comprehensive school mental health (SMH) systems, particularly those organised around Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). MTSS provides a coherent structure integrating prevention, early intervention and intensive support to meet diverse student needs (Barrett et al., 2018) acknowledging the interdependence of academic outcomes, mental health and social-emotional development.

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