Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • harmful sexual behaviour

    Shore: a safe place for young people worried about sexual behaviour

    Children and young people engaging in harmful sexual behaviour is a national public health issue, affecting thousands of young people across the UK every year. Despite this, there are few services available to support young people once harm has taken place and even fewer for young people concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts, feelings or behaviour.

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • boy sad holding a teddy bear

    Trauma Informed Care – Understanding the challenges, and the pragmatic steps which need to be taken to operationalise and deliver Trauma Informed Care across services

    ‘Trauma Informed Care – Understanding the challenges, and the pragmatic steps which need to be taken to operationalise and deliver Trauma Informed Care across services’ is ACAMH’s inaugural ACE’s SIG day conference.

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    Day Conference
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • young boy screaming and crying

    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.

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Group of friends sitting together using their mobile phones

    The Risks and Benefits of Social Media on the Mental Health of Adolescents

    This talk will explore the burgeoning use of social media by adolescents in today’s society.

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Cries. Poor fair-haired little girl closing her ears and sitting in the armchair while her parents shouting at her

    Words Matter: Understanding, Impact, and Prevention of Childhood Verbal Abuse

    Set of three webinars on Childhood Verbal Abuse (CVA). This is characterised by adults shouting, yelling, denigrating, and verbally threatening the child. These types of adult actions can be as damaging to a child’s development as other currently recognized and forensically established subtypes of maltreatment such as childhood physical and sexual abuse.

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    3 x90min webinars
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • two teenager brothers

    Responding to sibling sexual abuse – putting research into action

    This workshop will outline current knowledge and evidence in the sibling sexual abuse field and look at how that knowledge can be used to inform how we positively support a family’s journey, from identification of harm, safety planning and assessment, through to therapeutic intervention, case closure and aftercare support

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    Live Stream
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education

    ‘Why I didn’t send my child back to school after the pandemic: The Rise in Home Education’ will be led by Tami Alikhani. This is webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • aces story stem

    Story Stems – a window into a child’s internal world

    This webinar will cover the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) and its use as an assessment of a child’s attachment and internal representations. The SSAP consists of 13 narrative stems, to which the child provides their own story completions; information is thus gained directly from the child in a non-threatening context.

    Event type
    Webinar
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • sad little girl

    Assessing and understanding trauma: bridging the gap between research and practice

    The session will provide a bridge between research and clinical contexts of measuring trauma and adverse life experiences in looked-after children populations. Dr Saul Hillman, Richard Cross, and Katharine Anderson present

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    Talk with Q&A
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    LIVE STREAM
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  • school children on tablet

    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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    Live Stream
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    LIVE STREAM
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