Psychotherapies
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Meet the expert: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A), with Dr. Jake Camp
We caught up with Dr. Jake Camp, who is a senior clinical psychologist in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a clinical academic fellow in King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, to discuss Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents, and his career.
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Creating Safety Before Speech: A Nervous System Approach to Selective Mutism
The session explores the connections between early development, emotional regulation, movement, retained primitive reflexes, and the nervous system, illustrating how these systems interact to shape a child’s capacity to engage, relate, and communicate. It places particular emphasis on how safety, predictability, and reduced pressure can support regulation and communication across both home and school environments.
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- Talk with Q&A
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- LIVE STREAM
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Complex Mental Health Needs: When Services Come Together for Service Innovation
The event seeks to emphasize the importance of collaboration among agencies when standard practices fall short in meeting the needs of children and young people (CYP).
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- Service Innovation
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- LIVE STREAM
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents: Evidence, Applications, and Emerging Considerations
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is a developmentally adapted, evidence-based intervention for young people experiencing emotion dysregulation, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. In recent years, a growing body of evidence such as randomised trials and meta-analyses have suggested DBT-A’s effectiveness across outpatient, inpatient, and community settings (Mehlum et al., 2014; McCauley et al., 2018; Kothgassner et al., 2021; Syversen et al., 2024).
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Navigating Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
We’re delighted to offer you a chance to learn from the very best – Dr. Boris Birmaher. The goal of this presentation is to present the difficulties and differential diagnosis of pediatric Bipolar Disease and factors associated with its course.
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- Advanced session
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- LIVE STREAM
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Professor Maggie Snowling on rethinking reading disorders
We caught up with Prof. Maggie Snowling, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St John’s College, to discuss her career, and more.
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Working with families affected by relational trauma: building safety, connection and resilience
Explore how relational trauma and attachment difficulties affect children and families in this ACAMH training session with Kim Golding CBE. Learn DDP‑informed strategies to build safety, connection, and resilience in families affected by relational trauma.
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- Introductory to Advanced
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- LIVE STREAM
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Practical techniques for managing social anxiety in everyday clinical work
Associate Professor Eleanor Leigh will focus on social anxiety in adolescents, with a strong emphasis on developing practical clinical skills. This advanced session will be ideal for professionals in child and family mental health who have therapeutic experience with children and families.
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- Introductory to Advanced
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- LIVE STREAM
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Mastering meltdowns and big feelings with Associate Professor Erin Gonzalez
We caught up with the presenter – Associate Professor Dr. Erin Gonzalez, a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital – about the topic itself, her career, and her hopes for the event.
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Supporting Children and Young People with Complex Trauma Histories: Rethinking Readiness for Treatment
Children and young people who have experienced trauma often present with a range of emotional, behavioural, and relational difficulties. There is robust evidence that trauma-focused psychological therapies are effective for PTSD in children and adolescents. Nonetheless, clinicians sometimes hesitate to offer these approaches to young people whose circumstances are complicated—for example, those with ongoing instability, high levels of distress, suicide risk, or multiple comorbidities. Some are told they are ‘not ready’, or that therapy should wait until other difficulties are managed. However, current evidence suggests that complexities are not, in themselves, a reason to delay treatment.
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