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ADHD in Adolescence: Understanding Challenges and Supporting Effective Treatment
Associate Professor Dr. Erin Schoenfelder Gonzalez, will explore how ADHD presents in adolescence and how this differs from childhood, including its interaction with the specific challenges of the teenage years, such as peer relationships and increasing academic demands.
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- Session
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- Online
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ADHD in the classroom: Why everyday interactions matter
A child with ADHD may collect corrections all day, small ones, one after another, until something starts to give. Long before the symptoms themselves cause lasting harm, a child can quietly conclude that school is not a place they are good at. Drawing on research discussed during a webinar by clinical psychologist Erin Schoenfelder Gonzalez, this article explores how the cumulative experience of everyday classroom interactions may shape a child’s confidence, relationships and sense of belonging at school.
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The Adolescent Story Stem Profile (ASSP): A Clinical Tool for Exploring Attachment, Affect, and Mentalization
Dr. Saul Hillman, Senior Research Fellow at Anna Freud and an Honorary Lecturer at UCL, introduces the Adolescent Story Stem Profile (ASSP), an online assessment designed to help practitioners explore adolescents’ internal worlds, including attachment representations, affect regulation, mentalization, and interpersonal functioning. JUST £5! FREE TO MEMBERS
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- ACEs SIG Monthly seminars
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- LIVE STREAM
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Relational trauma: looking beyond the child
When a child has been affected by relational trauma, it might be easy to assume that the child is the one who needs to be treated. But in practice, working with the child matters just as much as working with the adults who care for them and with the everyday relationships the child lives inside. That second part seems to be the one most easily overlooked.
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The Teenage Brain: Social Sensitivity, Risk-Taking, and What It Means for Practice
Explore how teenage brain development shapes social sensitivity, peer influence and risk-taking, with practical insights for clinicians and educators. Blog by Professor Francisco Musich
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Digital Media, Peer Influence, and Teen Mental Health
Drawing on research from Professor Mitch Prinstein, this session will explore how social processes — including peer influence and popularity — interact with digital environments to shape young people’s emotional well-being.
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- Update session
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- LIVE STREAM
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Meet the expert: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice (DDP) intervention, with Dr. Kim Golding CBE
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Kim Golding CBE, a clinical psychologist and consultant and trainer, to talk about in DDP – about Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice (DDP) intervention.
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Working with families affected by relational trauma: building safety, connection and resilience
Explore how relational trauma and attachment difficulties affect children and families in this ACAMH training session with Kim Golding CBE. Learn DDP‑informed strategies to build safety, connection, and resilience in families affected by relational trauma.
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- Introductory to Advanced
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- LIVE STREAM
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Five Friendships Skills Every Child Needs to Learn
Join Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore as she offers parents practical ideas for helping children to feel more comfortable and confident in social situations by describing five essential friendship skills that are part of the unspoken social curriculum for school-age children. This webinar is aimed at teachers/educators, childcare providers, speech and language professionals, or volunteers who work with children.
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- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM
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Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co-twin study
A video abstract of the JCPP paper – Concurrent and longitudinal associations of developmental language disorder with peer victimization in adolescence: evidence from a co-twin study. With Dr. Sînziana Oncioiu (pic)
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