Children and Young People

  • 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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  • judy dunn eating disorders

    Eating Disorders in Young People: Advancing Evidence and Practice – 2025 Judy Dunn International Conference

    Join us for the 2025 Judy Dunn International Conference, bringing together leading experts to share the latest evidence and clinical insights on eating disorders in young people. This year’s programme will explore current research and innovations in understanding these conditions and their treatment, offering delegates deeper perspectives to inform their work with children and adolescents.

    Event type
    Judy Dunn International Conference
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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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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  • Candice Odgers

    Parenting and Protecting Adolescents in the Age of Social Media and AI

    Adolescents spend much of their lives online and adults are increasingly worried that screen time, social media, and now artificial intelligence (AI) will harm their mental health. Award winning psychologist Candice Odgers will address current fears with facts about adolescent mental health in the digital age and provide science-backed strategies for those working to support the young people in their families, classrooms, and communities.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
    Location
    Online
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  • Eileen Kennedy-Moore

    Five Friendships Skills Every Child Needs to Learn

    FROM JUST £5! 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.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Ron Rapee

    CBT for Anxiety in Youth: Addressing Treatment Barriers Using The Cool Kids Programme

    Prof. Ron Rapee leads this webinar on the Cool Kids Suite of programs to manage anxiety and related problems among children and adolescents has been used for around 30 years and is one of the most extensively evaluated paediatric anxiety interventions in the world. Its international adoption and multiple translations have helped many thousands of young people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds live less impaired lives.

    Event type
    Expert knowledge session
    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
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Portrait of son hugging his father, together at home. Son caring for his father, putting hand on his shoulder, comforting and consoling him. Family love, bonding, care and confidence

    Social Fears in Children: The Roles of Parental Communication and Child Temperament

    A recent longitudinal study by Zeytinoglu and colleagues (2025) provides insights into how parental verbal communication and child characteristics contribute to the transmission of social fears. The study shows the impact of both positive and negative maternal statements about ambiguous social situations, finding that positive comments were linked to reductions in children’s social fear beliefs, while negative comments predicted increases, especially among children who were behaviourally inhibited or had high anxiety.

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  • Full length portrait of African American single father and smiling son using tablet and chatting sitting on floor in harsh sunlight copy space

    Understanding How Parenting Programs Work: Key Behaviour Changes and Individual Differences in Outcomes

    A 2025 study by Sigurðardóttir and colleagues brings together findings from 14 European randomized controlled trials with 3,252 families, all evaluating social learning-based parenting programmes. The study examined in detail how these programmes can support the reduction of disruptive behaviours in children.

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  • Cute brilliant smart child of african american ethnicity study at home, doing homework, sitting on floor with book in hands smiling at camera with enthusiasm, happy to get new knowledge

    Children and Adolescents with Single and Multiple Traumas Response to PTSD Therapy: New Insights from a Major Meta-Analysis

    A 2023 meta-analysis led by Hoppen and colleagues examined whether children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) benefit equally from psychological interventions, regardless of whether they have experienced a single traumatic event or multiple traumas (Hoppen et al., 2023).

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