A free live stream event celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP). To secure your free live stream place click on the button above.

JCPP, is our internationally acclaimed publication, bringing together empirical research, clinical studies and reviews in order to advance how we understand and approach child and adolescent mental health. To celebrate the 60th Anniversary we will be broadcasting live from the Wellcome Collection, London, to an invited audience, hearing from some of the sector’s most respected figures. We’ll be looking back over the last six decades of JCPP, and importantly discussing what the future holds, and how we can all be part of the advancement of child and adolescent mental health.

Programme

14:30 – 15:45 Session One
Welcome and Keynote Addresses
Chaired by Professor Kathy Sylva, ACAMH President, Professor of Educational, Psychology and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford

Keynote address 1 – JCPP: Translating science to practice
Professor Eric Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, IoPPN, KCL

Keynote address 2 – JCPP: The way we do the things we do
Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Editor in Chief JCPP, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, IoPPN, KCL

15:45 – 16:00 Break

16:00 Session Two
‘Future challenges for the science of child psychology and psychiatry’

Presentations 

• Epidemiology – Professor Terrie Moffit, Chair in Social Behaviour & Development, Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, KCL
• Genetics – Professor Robert Plomin, Professor of Behavioural Genetics, Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, KCL
• Neuroscience – Professor Bradley Peterson, Director, Institute for the Developing Mind, The University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
• Reading and language – Professor Maggie Snowling, The President, St John’s College, University of Oxford
• Autism – Professor Francesca Happe, Director of MRC Centre & Head of Department, of SDGP, KCL

Chaired by Professor Pasco Fearon, Chair in Developmental Psychopathology Clinical, Education & Health Psychology, UCL

17:30 – 17:45 Panel Q & A