Parenting & Family
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Helping Anxious Parents Raise Confident Children: Preventing the Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety
This practical, skills-based workshop helps clinicians support anxious parents in building children’s confidence and resilience, reducing the intergenerational transmission of anxiety.
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- Workshop
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Irritability and Later Depression and Self-Harm in Adolescence
Irritability is common in early childhood and for many children, it reduces over time as they develop better frustration tolerance, language, emotional regulation, and social understanding. However, when irritability remains high across early childhood, it may signal increased vulnerability to later mental health difficulties.
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Why Depression May Look Different in Young People with ADHD
Depression commonly co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). When this combination occurs is associated with greater clinical complexity and poorer outcomes. Yet depression in young people with ADHD may not always be straightforward to recognise, some symptoms of depression overlap with ADHD, some may be expressed through irritability, sleep problems, or behavioural difficulties, and young people with ADHD may not always report depressive symptoms in the same way as their parents.
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How to integrate AI and other digital tools into everyday clinical practice
This practical workshop from Professor Helen Pote (pic), Gemma Rides and Lisa Summerhill, helps clinicians and allied professionals safely and effectively integrate AI and digital tools into everyday practice with children, young people and families.
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- Workshop
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Meet the expert on mentalising – Dr. Emma Morris
Discover how mentalising therapy supports children and families facing complex trauma. Join Emma Morris at the ACAMH workshop on 14 October 2026.
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EBSA in young people: complexity, pressure, and the value of slowing down
When a child stops going to school, the wish to help them back quickly is easy to understand. Emotionally based school avoidance rarely has a single cause, though, and the pace of a response can matter as much as its content. One thought runs through what follows: that slowing down can sometimes do more for a child than any effort to hurry a return.
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Assessing and Treating PTSD in Young Children
Learn how PTSD appears in young children, why it’s often missed, and how PTSD-YC criteria and CBT-3M improve early identification and treatment. Blog by Professor Francisco Musich.
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Family-Based Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
This session will be emphasising adaptation in response to increasing clinical complexity. It is led by Prof. Daniel Le Grange—learn its foundations, effectiveness, and when to adapt for better mental health outcomes.
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- Masterclass
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- Online
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Debate – Regulating Social Media Use in Children and Young People – Are bans justified?
This 1.5-hour online debate brings together leading experts to examine whether age-based social media bans are an appropriate policy response to concerns about children and young people’s mental health.
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- Debate
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Meet the expert: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice (DDP) intervention, with Dr. Kim Golding CBE
We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Kim Golding CBE, a clinical psychologist and consultant and trainer, to talk about in DDP – about Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice (DDP) intervention.
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