Join our ACEs SIG and Forum

Anyone can now join our Adverse Childhood Experiences Special Interest Group, completely free! ACAMH members can log in to the website and participate in discussions on the SIG Forum. If you’re not an ACAMH member (yet!), you will need to register to use the Forum first.

17 May 2022

JCPP Advances First Year Anniversary

Bookings closed. FREE livestream event celebrating the one-year anniversary of JCPP Advances, our high quality, high impact open access journal. Join us for a series of short lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners in the field of child and adolescent mental health for this special celebration.

Event type

Live Stream

Location

Online

Adolescent social media user types and their mental health

Video abstract from Lizzy Winstone on her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being: Results from a longitudinal survey of 13–14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’.

17 May 2022

How to Cope When Your Child Can’t: How parents can help themselves and each other

This free session uses the latest evidence-based research, and examples from parents to help us understand what we can and cannot do; to help us to accept any distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control in our situations; to see that we can tolerate these things; and to know that there are ways to move forward.

Event type

Talk with Q&A

Location

LIVE STREAM

Suicide in children and young people: Everyone’s concern – recording

The topic of suicide has been identified as a high priority area, particularly in the context of Covid and lockdown, and subject we should all be concerned with. This practically focused online conference, organised by ACAMH Scottish Branch, had talks from clinicians, education professionals, leading agency and charity professionals, and Public Health Scotland.

5 May 2022

Service improvement and research: Innovation and new challenges in CAMHS – recording

Southern Branch event that showcased the innovative models of care in the region featuring neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health difficulties.

4 May 2022

Late-diagnosed Autistic Children: Mental Health & Social Difficulties

In this podcast, we talk to Professor Will Mandy about his JCPP paper ‘Mental health and social difficulties of late-diagnosed autistic children, across childhood and adolescence’.

3 May 2022

Tics Spectrum Disorders

The aim of this full day, online event is to explore the assessment and management of Tic Disorders, covering both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to treatment.

Event type

Day Conference

Location

LIVE STREAM

ACEs eNewsletters

We’ll be bringing you the latest news on ACEs, and then discussing these in the ACES SIG Forum, so do please register to use the ACEs Forum.

21 April 2022

JCPP Editorial: Volume 63, Issue 04, April 2022

Editorial: ‘The times they are a-changin’: paradigm shifts in child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry’ by Sara R. Jaffee

13 April 2022