Therapeutic Engagement with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors

This Refugee Week, we are joined by Dr. Hayley Rajpal to explore the challenges of therapeutic engagement with unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.

20 June 2022

Understanding Self-Harm

TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that this blog discusses self-harm, including personal experiences of self-harm. It is estimated that between 10%-20% of all people self-harm at some point during their lifetime. It is hard to gather exact figures due to the stigma surrounding self-harm, and because people try to hide their wounds, scars and bruises. Watch this 8-minute film to understand more.

15 June 2022

How isolation and secrecy fuel the self-harm flames

During Mental Health Awareness month in May 2022 – focused on the role of loneliness – Nip in the Bud listened to experts and those who have been through it to understand the vicious cycle of trying to cope alone. (TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that this blog discusses self-harm, including personal experiences of self-harm.) This blog was published by Nip in the Bud on 27 May 2022.

15 June 2022

Understanding Trauma – Ask The Expert; recording

For this session we welcomed David Trickey to share his knowledge and insights into trauma, specifically exploring children’s responses to traumatic events, when it might become problematic, how it might present itself and why schools make perfect therapeutic environments to support young people who have experienced trauma. David also answered questions in a session facilitated by leading education professional Professor Barry Carpenter.

13 June 2022

COMET; Student Mental Health and Single-Session Interventions

For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Maria Loades to discuss the Common Elements Toolbox (COMET), a study testing a digital intervention to help university students improve their wellbeing.

6 June 2022

CAIDPN 2022 Annual Conference Day 2 – recording

Delegates Only. This event was produced by CAIDPN, a group of psychiatrists across the UK and Ireland who work with children who have an intellectual disability and mental health needs. The second day was tailored to doctors (psychiatrists, paediatricians) working with children with intellectual disabilities.

20 May 2022

Frontiers in clinical practice: A practical update for busy clinicians. First International Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatry Network (CAIDPN) Conference – recording

Delegates Only. Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Psychiatry Network (CAIDPN), and ACAMH, hosted this online conference bringing together different professionals mainly within CAMHS and Intellectual Disability presenting their latest work.

19 May 2022

CAMHS around the Campfire journal club – ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education

FREE SESSION. For this session we are pleased to welcome Hans Fredrik Sunde, from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, to discuss his JCPP Advances paper ‘The ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education: A prospective sibling-comparison register study of 344,152 Norwegian adolescents’.

Event type

CAMHS around the Campfire

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LIVE STREAM

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

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LIVE STREAM

Understanding Trauma – Ask The Expert

Bookings closed. Join David Trickey as he shares his knowledge and insights into children’s responses to traumatic events, when it might become problematic, how it might present itself, and why schools make perfect therapeutic environments to support young people.

Event type

Teacher Exclusive Event

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LIVE STREAM