This two-hour online training event will focus on social anxiety in adolescents, with a strong emphasis on developing practical clinical skills. The session will explore how social anxiety can be more effectively identified and recognised in young people, alongside key psychological processes that may be targeted in therapy. Attention will also be given to common challenges around engagement, particularly when working with adolescents who may be reluctant or ambivalent about support. The training will further consider important clinical considerations when working with neurodivergent adolescents, offering a thoughtful and inclusive perspective relevant to professionals across mental health and related settings.
This advanced session will be ideal for professionals in child and family mental health—such as psychotherapists, psychologists, arts therapists, family therapists, counsellors, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, and social workers—who have therapeutic experience with children and families.
Booking
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
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
EARLY BIRD £39 (until 26/02/26, then £59) for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) Join now and save
EARLY BIRD £59 (until 26/02/26, then £79) ACAMH Learn Account holders
EARLY BIRD £59 (until 26/02/26, then £79) Non Members
£5 ACAMH Undergraduate/Postgraduate Members
LIC Members free
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.
About the session
If you work with young people, it is likely that some of them will be experiencing social anxiety disorder. It is the most common anxiety problem, affecting around 5% of the population, and it almost always first occurs during the teenage years. Social anxiety disorder can cause significant distress and impairment and tends to persist in the absence of treatment. This webinar is for practitioners working in a range of settings who would like to gain skills and confidence in recognising, assessing and supporting young people with social anxiety disorder.
This webinar will provide:
- Guidance and tools for the sensitive and accurate detection of social anxiety
- Information on careful assessment of the problem in the context of other mental health difficulties and neurodivergence
- A brief introduction to the specific psychological processes that maintain social anxiety in young people, and techniques to target these.
Learning outcomes
- Understand barriers to detecting social anxiety in young people and how to overcome these.
- Gain skills in recognising and assessing social anxiety in the context of other mental health problems and neurodivergence.
- Recognise the psychological processes that maintain social anxiety in young people and the potential for taking a targeted approach to treatment.
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About the speaker
Associate Professor Eleanor Leigh is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and Honorary Clinical Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Her work is focused on improving our understanding and treatment of common mental health problems in adolescence, with an emphasis on cognitive behavioural approaches. Her recent work is focused on social anxiety disorder and on depression in young people. To do this, she uses a broad range of methods, including experimental and prospective methods, meta-analysis, and clinical trial designs. Her research looks at: the cognitive and behavioural mechanisms of adolescent social anxiety disorder; psychological therapies for adolescent social anxiety disorder; improving access to psychological therapies; how social anxiety affects academic achievement; the peer environment and social anxiety in adolescence; and parental influences on the maintenance of social anxiety in youth. Her work has been supported by the Wellcome Trust and the NIHR. Previously she worked as a Clinical Psychologist at National & Specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) at The Maudsley Hospital, London. She teaches and trains on a number of national training courses, including Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) and CYP-IAPT courses. She is on the advisory board of JCPP Advances and the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry.
Booking
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
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
EARLY BIRD £39 (until 26/02/26, then £59) for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession) Join now and save
EARLY BIRD £59 (until 26/02/26, then £79) ACAMH Learn Account holders
EARLY BIRD £59 (until 26/02/26, then £79) Non Members
£5 ACAMH Undergraduate/Postgraduate Members
LIC Members free
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.