Child maltreatment

  • Sarah Halligan

    The role of socio-contextual factors in child and adolescent PTSD

    ‘The role of socio-contextual factors in child and adolescent PTSD’ is a webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. It is led by Professor Sarah Halligan is Professor of Child and Family Mental Health at the University of Bath.

    Event type
    ACEs SIG Monthly seminars
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Saul Hillman

    Unlocking Children’s Internal Worlds: 25 Years of the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

    Dr Saul Hillman – For more than 25 years, we have been training professionals in the use of the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP), a powerful and nuanced tool designed to help us understand the internal worlds of children aged 4 to 10 years old.

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  • Young woman giving hug to her cute little son with brown soft teddybear while both sitting on sleeping place prepared for refugees

    Families and Children in Wartime Ukraine: Prelude to an Online Course on Families in Context of War and Social Conflict Through the Lens of Attachment

    For practitioners and policymakers, it is important to realise that the extraordinarily high levels of parental burnout signal serious mental health challenges ahead, even well beyond the end of the war.

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  • harmful sexual behaviour

    Shore: a safe place for young people worried about sexual behaviour

    Children and young people engaging in harmful sexual behaviour is a national public health issue, affecting thousands of young people across the UK every year. Despite this, there are few services available to support young people once harm has taken place and even fewer for young people concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts, feelings or behaviour.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Cries. Poor fair-haired little girl closing her ears and sitting in the armchair while her parents shouting at her

    Words Matter: Understanding, Impact, and Prevention of Childhood Verbal Abuse

    Set of three webinars on Childhood Verbal Abuse (CVA). This is characterised by adults shouting, yelling, denigrating, and verbally threatening the child. These types of adult actions can be as damaging to a child’s development as other currently recognized and forensically established subtypes of maltreatment such as childhood physical and sexual abuse.

    Event type
    3 x90min webinars
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • two teenager brothers

    Responding to sibling sexual abuse – putting research into action

    This workshop will outline current knowledge and evidence in the sibling sexual abuse field and look at how that knowledge can be used to inform how we positively support a family’s journey, from identification of harm, safety planning and assessment, through to therapeutic intervention, case closure and aftercare support

    Event type
    Live Stream
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • school children on tablet

    Trauma Aware Education

    Dr. Judith Howard, Associate Professor of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Dr. Lyra L’Estrange, Senior Lecturer in Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), will lead this session on Trauma Aware Education on ‘An education system solution to the complex systemic problem of child abuse and neglect: One Australian university’s approach’.

    Event type
    Live Stream
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Dr. Daniel Shaw

    Dr. Daniel Shaw

    Dr. Daniel Shaw is the Director of the Center for Parents and Children and the Pitt Parents and Children Laboratory. He also serves as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, with joint appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, the School of Education, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Center for Social and Urban Research.

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  • journal covers JCPP

    Characteristics of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young people with PTSD following multiple trauma exposure

    Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The objective of the present study was to investigate how trauma characteristics, comorbid psychopathology and cognitive and social factors experienced by children and adolescents with a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis following exposure to multiple traumatic events differs between those who meet the criteria for CPTSD and those who do not.’ Katie Lofthouse et al.

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  • Alice Phillips

    Mental health and care-experienced young people: are our mental health support services appealing and accessible?

    Children in care are much more likely to experience mental health problems than young people in the general population. Early life experiences, such as abuse, neglect, parental drug-use or violence likely play a major part in this. So too could the instability that is often inherent in the care system.

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