Past events
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Are we over-pathologising young people’s mental health? CAMH Journal Debate
Building on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal debate series, the session will bring together contrasting perspectives on diagnostic trends and their interpretation in child and adolescent mental health. The debate includes Sami Timimi, Professor Kapil Sayal, and Professor Rachel Hiller.
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- Debate
- Location
- LIVE STREAM
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Mastering Meltdowns: Managing Big Feelings in Kids
Discover practical strategies for helping children manage intense emotions in this engaging webinar, with Associate Professor Erin Schoenfelder Gonzalez, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
- Event type
- Introductory and Update Session
- Location
- LIVE STREAM
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Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education
‘Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education’ will be led by Tami Alikhani. This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.
- Event type
- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM
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Understanding mental health challenges in autism and ADHD: A focus on schools as a source of emotional burden
The aim of this 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.
- Event type
- FREE live stream
- Location
- FREE 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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Autism and Co-occurring Conditions: Adapting Psychological Therapies
Professor Franscisco Musich leads a session to understand transdiagnostic and trans-protocol adaptations for autistic individuals, identify specific protocol adaptations, and to recognize current limitations and outline future directions for research.
- Event type
- Intermediate level
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- LIVE STREAM
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Rethinking reading disorders
We are lucky to have one of the Titans, Professor Maggie Snowling, deliver this session on the role of language in literacy development, and address the specific challenges faced by children with language disorder.
- Event type
- Ask the expert
- Location
- LIVE STREAM
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Mental Health in Schools: Practical Strategies for a Stepped, Collaborative Approach
This three part webinar series brings together leading experts to share practical, evidence-based strategies for strengthening student mental health within schools through comprehensive, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). Attendees will learn how to implement prevention and early intervention strategies, foster stronger collaboration among schools, families, and communities, and build sustainable systems that ensure student well-being and academic success.
- Event type
- Short course - 3 sessions
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- LIVE STREAM
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Physical health of children and young people with learning disabilities – Joint CAIDPN/BACD Conference
Join us for this one day online conference jointly organised by the Child & Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatry Network (CAIDPN) and British Academy of Childhood Disability (BACD). The conference focuses on the physical health of children and young people with learning disabilities.
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Mapping SEND Legislation: what it looks like and how it can work for children & young people and front-line professionals
This face to face event event aims to bring attention and to create a powerful focus on the future of SEND policy, practice and provision. The event perspective will take strong and particular interest in the challenges in the current system and the opportunities that a revised framework can bring.