ACEs – Adverse Childhood Experiences

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.

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    Child Maltreatment and Mental Health Problems: The Role of the Subjective Experience

    ‘Child Maltreatment and Mental Health Problems: The Role of the Subjective Experience’, is a free webinar open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The webinar will be led by Oonagh Coleman is a final-year PhD student at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London.

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    Trauma Aware Education

    Dr. Judith Howard, Associate Professor of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Dr. Lyra L’Estrange, Senior Lecturer in Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), will lead this session on Trauma Aware Education on ‘An education system solution to the complex systemic problem of child abuse and neglect: One Australian university’s approach’.

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    Schwartz Rounds – Free ACES SIG webinar

    Dr. Jon Goldin will present a seminar on the value of ‘Schwartz Rounds’ in promoting the work of Practitioners working together across Services. This is a free webinar open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.

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  • A trauma informed approach to mental health support for autistic children, young people and their families – FREE ACEs SIG webinar

    Free webinar open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The webinar will be led by Dr. Georgia Pavlopoulou and Alexis Quinn at Anna Freud and UCL.

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    Grief and Trauma-Practice and Research

    The seminar will provide a bridge between research and clinical contexts of traumatic experiences and loss in bereaved children and young people.

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    Reflective Parenting with Young Children and Teenagers

    About the webinar We are in the midst of an, ever escalating, mental health crisis for young people. Mental health problems for children and young people have increased over the past few years to nearly 1 in 4. Services, both statutory and voluntary, are unable to meet the scale of the demand of these issues […]

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    The development of Paediatric and Child Health approaches to Trauma Treatment and Resilience

    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 Heather Forkey and Jessica Griffin from the Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts.

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    Preventing Sexually Harmful Behaviour of young people – introducing the ‘Inform and the Shore’ initiative

    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 Laura Nott with a talk on ‘Preventing sexually harmful behaviour of young people – introducing the Inform and Shore initiatives and findings from our action research in schools’.

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    Understanding and supporting children looked after and adopted children

    It is recognised that the children looked after population is often on clinical caseloads, yet there appears to be little discussion around both the impact of their early life experiences on their neuropsychology, and the practical aspects of working with this specific population due to this. This webinar will focus on the mental health of children looked after and adopted children.

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    Webinar
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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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