Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are defined as situations that lead to an elevated risk of children and young people experiencing damaging impacts on their health and other social outcomes across the life course.
ACEs – Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Stress and mental health presentations in secondary school-aged young people – recording
This was organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group, and was led by Dr. Ruth Blackburn and Sorcha Ní Chobhthaigh from UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health present research on mental health in secondary school-aged young people.
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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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Adverse Event Monitoring and Reporting in Studies of Pediatric Psychosocial Interventions
In this Papers Podcast, Kalee Lodewyk discusses her CAMH journal paper ‘Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review’. Kalee is the lead author of the paper.
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Bullying and Victimisation and the link with Adverse Childhood Experiences
This free webinar is open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The webinar will be led by Nora Trompeter, University College London, who will present an overview of research on bullying and victimisation and how this impacts adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems.
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- FREE live stream
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Connecting the dots around unusual and distressing sensory experiences – recording for members
Free for members. This webinar and Q&A will looked at a range of projects to explore the breadth of lived experiences around unusual and distressing sensory experience to explore research priorities with young people, parents/carers, and important adults in their lives, such as teachers and mental health professionals.
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Connecting the dots around unusual and distressing sensory experiences – recording
Delegates only. This webinar and Q&A will looked at a range of projects to explore the breadth of lived experiences around unusual and distressing sensory experience to explore research priorities with young people, parents/carers, and important adults in their lives, such as teachers and mental health professionals.
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Fostering Healthy Futures – An Evidence-Based Mentoring Programme to Promote Healthy Outcomes for Care-Experienced Youth
Free webinar open to all led by Professor Heather Taussig. Heather will present emerging research which suggests that mentoring programs which use skills-based and goal-focused approaches produce substantially larger impacts on specific youth outcomes.
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- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream
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Words Matter: Childhood Verbal Abuse
Childhood verbal abuse is characterised by adults verbally threatening the child, it can be as damaging to a child’s development as other subtypes of maltreatment such as childhood physical and sexual abuse. Register for this FREE webinar, open to all, led by Professor Shanta R. Dube, Jessica Bondy, and Fiona Pienaar.
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- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream
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Trauma Treatment by Beethoven and Beyoncé: Incorporating Music as a Tool for Engagement in Evidence-Based Treatments for Child Trauma
This FREE webinar will be led by Assistant Professor Dr. Jessica Wozniak and Associate Professor Dr. Jessica L. Griffin, both University of Massachusetts Medical School, who will present a brief overview of research on music and neurobiology and health outcomes, including mental health.
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- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream
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Why we need to consider the world of young carers – A tribute to Jean Tomsett
This event, organised by the ACAMH Wales Branch will focus on the role young carers play, and how to help them care for their mental health. It is being run for FREE as a tribute to our long serving Committee Chair, Jean Tompsett, who sadly passed away a while ago.
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- FREE live stream
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- FREE live stream