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

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Event type FREE live stream

Webinar, via Zoom at 09:30 - 15:30 UK time, 10:30 - 16:30 CET
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The aim of this FREE 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.

Who should attend

This webinar would be ideal for mental health practitioners and researchers, and those educators related to special educational needs, autism, ADHD.

Booking

This is a FREE event but you MUST register. Sign up at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD/CME certificate via email.

ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD/CME certificate

About the session

Attendees will gain an understanding of:

  1. What drives mental health struggles for many young people with ADHD and/or autism.
  2. What helps autistic and ADHD young people manage everyday upsets.

A neurodiversity-informed approach to promoting mental health in schools.

The RE-STAR team will

i) present discoveries from the programme highlighting how upsetting experiences in school, and the emotional burden they create, can lead to poor mental health in neurodivergent young people and

ii) describe how this discovery has been translated into a preventative whole-school intervention: Place Positive.

This mini-conference will include new research insights and explore their practical implications. It will close with a panel discussion with contributions from experts in child and adolescent mental health practice and policy, as well as the RE-STAR Youth Researcher Panel.

Programme

Chair: Cathy Creswell

09:15 Welcome

09:20 A series of short talks

  1. RE-STAR’s Participatory Approach
  2. Emotional Burden in School – what is it?
  3. Evidence from experimental and longitudinal studies
  4. School and Young People’s Emotions

11.00 Break

11.20 Place Positive – Reducing emotional burden in school

11.45 Panel Discussion

12.30 Closing Comments

12.45 Close