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.


  • 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.

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    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.

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    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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    The NHS Violence Reduction Programme – What research shows about the health service response to violence affecting young people

    Free webinar open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The webinar will be led by Michael Carver, Clinical Lead for the NHS London Violence Reduction Academy.

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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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  • sad teen on sofa

    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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    Maternal Experienced Bereavement and Offspring Mental Health

    In this Papers Podcast, Layla Rashid discusses her JCPP paper ‘Maternal experienced bereavement and offspring mental health in early adulthood: the role of modifiable parental factors’. Layla is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

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