To Start or Not To Start: Navigating between stabilisation and memory work in cognitive therapy for PTSD

Gain confidence in deciding when to start trauma memory work with children and young people with PTSD or Complex PTSD

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Workshop

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LIVE STREAM

Interventions for Sibling Mental Health Conditions: New Systematic Review Shows Lack of Evidence

This blog offers a summary of the findings and implications of a recent systematic review of studies looking at the effectiveness of interventions for young people with sibling mental health conditions. Only four papers were included in this review, highlighting the lack of evaluations for interventions supporting these young people.

7 April 2025

Embedding Evolutionary Principles into the Educational Frontline

Evolutionary psychiatry examines mental health through the lens of evolutionary biology, focusing on ultimate causes like gene-environment interactions and evolutionary mismatches rather than just proximate mechanisms. This approach highlights how traits once adaptive in ancestral environments may now contribute to mental health vulnerabilities. This is sure to be a truly fascinating and valuable session.

Event type

Half day conference

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LIVE STREAM

Autism: What Matters Most – From Assessment to Intervention 

Join Professor Catherine Lord, Distinguished Professor at UCLA’s Semel Institute, pioneering developer of the gold-standard ADOS and ADI-R autism diagnostic tools, and recipient of the International Society for Autism Research’s Lifetime Achievement Award, for an exclusive masterclass on autism assessment and intervention.

Event type

Masterclass

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LIVE STREAM

Breaking CAMHS Barriers: The Impact of Domestic Violence

This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. Talks will be from Dr. Claire Powell, and Dr. Ruth Blackburn, both Senior Research Fellows at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, and Dr. Ania Zylbersztejn population data scientist in the UCL Child Health Informatics Group and the NIHR GOSH Biomedical Research Centre Applied Child Health Informatics Theme.

Event type

Talk with Q&A

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LIVE STREAM

Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents

Emeritus Professor Pim Cuijpers – I will give an overview of the research on preventing the onset of major depression in youth and will show that prevention is indeed possible but also faces important challenges in terms of effectiveness and implementation.

Event type

Introductory and Update Session

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LIVE STREAM

Supporting young people who self-harm: effective interventions for safety and recovery

Self-harm among young people represents one of the most pressing challenges in adolescent mental health care. This workshop, led by Professor Dennis Ougrin, examines evidence-based approaches for supporting adolescents following self-injurious behaviours.

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Workshop

Location

LIVE STREAM

The STADIA Trial: Exploring clinical and cost effectiveness

Many children and young people with diagnosable mental health disorders are not receiving timely help, says new research.
Press release by The University of Nottingham for new paper published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry by Kapil Sayal et al.

5 February 2025

Creating Positive Change through Self-Awareness and Expression

Children’s Mental Health Week (3 – 9 February 2025) serves as a fantastic opportunity to look further at how we can empower, equip, and give a voice to children and young people, as well as encourage positive change with regards to their mental health and well-being.

By focusing on ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, alongside our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’, we encourage you to focus on how we, as a society, can help encourage children and young people to feel empowered in sharing their experiences in order to improve children’s and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

3 February 2025

Celebrating the life and work of Professor William Yule

Emeritus Professor William ‘Bill’ Yule passed away unexpectedly but peacefully at home on 5 November 2023. Near the one year anniversary of his death, friends, family and colleagues gathered at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience to celebrate his life and work.

27 January 2025