Low treatment engagement affects at least half of young people in therapy, yet clinicians often lack a clear, integrated framework for addressing it. In this 2-hour online webinar, Professor Bruce Chorpita and Dr. Kimberly Becker present a comprehensive, evidence-based system for detecting, prioritising, and responding to youth and family engagement concerns. Participants will explore the five dimensions of treatment engagement and practical methods for measuring each.
The session will guide attendees through a structured flow of clinical reasoning — from selecting an appropriate engagement strategy to delivering it in-session and evaluating its impact. By the end, participants will have a clearer framework and a range of evidence-informed procedures to consider when working to strengthen engagement in clinical practice.
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 11/08/26, 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
Low treatment engagement is one of the most common obstacles that clinicians encounter, impacting at least half of all cases in treatment. Addressing these challenges is complex for two reasons:
- engagement concerns are quite varied and therefore difficult to detect and
- the evidence base on youth engagement interventions is highly fragmented and unfamiliar to most mental health providers (and researchers).
This session will demonstrate a comprehensive system for addressing youth and family engagement concerns that includes:
- detecting and prioritizing concerns,
- selecting a well-suited engagement strategy from the evidence base for the prioritized concerns,
- preparing to apply the strategy in clinical care,
- delivering the strategy in a treatment session, and
- measuring whether the chosen strategy improved engagement.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the 5 dimensions of treatment engagement and identify at least 2 methods for measuring each.
- Describe the flow of evidence-based clinical reasoning and actions related to treatment engagement and identify resources that support each.
- Demonstrate the flow of evidence-based clinical reasoning and actions to plan for addressing treatment engagement concerns for a youth or caregiver.
- Recognize how to apply up to 11 different evidence-based procedures for youth and family engagement.
Who should attend
Mental health clinicians (CBT therapists, Clinical psychologists, Child & Adolescent psychotherapists, CAMHS clinicians, Mental health nurses), Service lead (Clinical lead in CAMHS, team managers, supervisors), Researchers/Academics. This would also be of potential interest to Educational psychologists, school mental health leads, allied health professionals.
About the speakers
Professor Bruce F. Chorpita, Ph.D. (he/him) received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York and held a faculty position with the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1997 to 2008. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Chorpita served as the Clinical Director of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, where he led a reform initiative that doubled the effect size and cost effectiveness of mental health outcomes for all youth served by the state system. He has published more than 350 scientific papers, many of which focus on strategies for improving efficiency and quality in children’s mental health systems, and he is lead author of the MATCH protocol, an evidence-based treatment that outperformed multiple other evidence-based treatments in three randomized trials. His ongoing research is aimed at improving the effectiveness of mental health service systems for children through innovation in treatment design and clinical decision-making.
He has been awarded more than $25M in research funding, from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the William T. Grant Foundation, as well as multiple state and county mental health systems, and is a Past President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. With support from the William T. Grant Foundation, he served as the PI for the Reaching Families multisite trial, an investigation of strategies to improve supervision and clinical decision making to improve family engagement in mental health services in low-income communities in Los Angeles, South Carolina, and Hawaii. From 2021 to 2022, Dr. Chorpita served as a National Academy of Sciences Committee Member for Accelerating Behavioral Science Through Ontology Development and Use, to help set the stage for improved scientific discovery, evidence application, and automated reasoning.
Dr. Kimberly Becker is a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Becker’s research focuses on improving the effectiveness of children’s mental health services, with specific interests in clinical decision-making and treatment engagement that are focused on the mission of helping children and families connect with effective mental health services. Dr. Becker has published more than 95 scientific articles, including papers that represent the REACH framework for treatment engagement and a randomized trial testing a clinical decision-making system for addressing treatment engagement concerns.
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 11/08/26, 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’. +