Adversity, Protection, and Prevention: Rethinking Childhood Experiences Through New Evidence

ACAMH’s second annual ACE’s SIG online conference. Don’t miss the early bird!

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Day Conference

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LIVE STREAM

Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) in Practice: Evidence, Complexity, and Recovery-Oriented Approaches

This three-hour online event explores what we currently know about EBSA, and how thinking, language, and responses have evolved in recent years. The session will examine the up-to-date research landscape, emerging international developments, and recovery-oriented approaches grounded in complex real-world cases.

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Update session

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LIVE STREAM

Are we over-pathologising young people’s mental health? CAMH Journal Debate

Building on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal debate series, the session will bring together contrasting perspectives on diagnostic trends and their interpretation in child and adolescent mental health. The debate includes Sami Timimi, Professor Kapil Sayal, and Professor Rachel Hiller.

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Debate

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LIVE STREAM

ACAMH Awards 2025

ACAMH Awards 2025

Mastering Meltdowns: Managing Big Feelings in Kids

Discover practical strategies for helping children manage intense emotions in this engaging webinar, with Associate Professor Erin Schoenfelder Gonzalez, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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Introductory and Update Session

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LIVE STREAM

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.

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Judy Dunn International Conference

Blades and Wounded Minds: exploring the links between youth mental health and knife crime

This webinar examines the complex relationship between youth mental health issues—particularly trauma and anxiety—and the rise in knife crime among young people.

CYP with Disordered Eating – the lost tribe: Understanding and Managing CYP not meeting the criteria for specialist ED services

Too many children and young people struggling with eating difficulties fall through the cracks—unable to access specialist eating disorder services yet lacking the support they need within generic CAMHS teams. Without timely intervention, these young people face significant risks to their physical and mental health.

Supporting emotion regulation and recognising dysregulation in children and young people: what do we need to know?

Dr. Alessio Bellato looks at ‘Emotion regulation in children and adolescents’. Emotion regulation is a core skill that underpins children and young people’s mental health, learning, and relationships, and it matures throughout development. Yet, many professionals, educators, and parents report uncertainty about how to assess or identify difficulties with emotion regulation, or how best support the development of these skills in everyday settings.

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.