‘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. Oonagh will be discussing Prospective and Retrospective Measures of Child Maltreatment and Their Association With Psychopathology A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis‘, a paper she co-authored with Dr. Jessie Baldwin, and Dr. Emma Francis.
Booking
Sign up to this FREE webinar at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time.
- ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a FREE electronic CPD certificate. Members MUST login to book onto the webinar and get their certificate.
- Non-members can opt to receive an electronic CPD certificate for just £5, select this option at the point of booking. This is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer
- Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.
About the webinar
Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk of poor mental health outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this risk is crucial for mitigating its effects. Different approaches to measuring maltreatment—prospective and retrospective—offer distinct insights into the experience. Prospective methods, relying on informant reports or official records, provide an external, third-person account, while retrospective self-report measures capture the subjective, first-person perspective. We know from previous research that these methods identify largely different groups of individuals as maltreated. Therefore, does the risk for mental health problems differ between these groups?
This talk presents findings from a newly published meta-analysis which shows that retrospective self-reports of maltreatment are more strongly linked to poor mental health outcomes than prospective measures. These findings have important implications for selecting the most relevant measures in etiopathological studies and identifying key targets for intervention. They also highlight the need to further explore how memory processes and trauma-related cognitions influence the relationship between maltreatment and psychopathology across a range of psychiatric disorders.
Learning outcomes
- To understand the differences between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment and how they impact the identification of maltreated individuals.
- To explore the relationship of prospective and retrospective measures of maltreatment with poor mental health outcomes.
- To recognise the implications of the stronger link between retrospective measures and psychopathology in terms of intervention strategies that focus on the subjective experience
About the speakers
Oonagh Coleman is a final-year PhD student at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. Her mixed methods research explores pathways of risk and resilience following childhood trauma, focusing on memory and the subjective experience in the development of trauma-related psychopathology. Oonagh is part of the Stress & Development Lab, led by Professor Andrea Danese, which investigates the impact of childhood stress on long-term health and development. She holds a Master’s degree from University College London and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge. Her research is funded by Mental Health Research UK.
Booking
Sign up to this FREE webinar at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time.
- ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a FREE electronic CPD certificate. Members MUST login to book onto the webinar and get their certificate.
- Non-members can opt to receive an electronic CPD certificate for just £5, select this option at the point of booking. This is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer
- Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.