Parenting

  • Professor Sinéad McGilloway

    The PRIMERA Project – Parental Mental Health and Family-Focused Interventions

    In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Professor Sinéad McGilloway and Christine Mulligan provide valuable insight into the PRIMERA programme, which investigated how best to support young families experiencing parental mental illness.

    The PRIMERA project team won ACAMH’s prestigious Lionel Hersov Memorial Award in 2022.

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  • AMH-Crisis2

    Crisis care for children and young people

    CAMH-Crisis2 is an NIHR research funded study exploring mental health crisis services for children and young people up to 25 years in England & Wales.

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  • JCPP Editorial: Volume 64, Issue 03, March 2023

    Editorial: ‘Using parenting interventions as treatments and brain development – are we at the end of the beginning yet?’ by Megan R. Gunnar

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  • Happy group of kids playing at the park

    Benefits of the Outdoors on Well-Being & Mental Health

    Bookings are closed. The aim of this online conference is to explore and learn about the benefits of the outdoors and nature on well-being. A further aim is to encourage delegates to reflect on how these topics may apply to their professional approaches with young people and own personal well-being.

    Event type
    Talk with Q&A
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • Family Therapists Supporting the Hosts of Ukrainian Families

    Family Therapists Supporting the Hosts of Ukrainian Family (recording)

    Following the response teams of Systemic Therapists have delivered face to face and online workshops for people hosting Ukrainians with a view to helping them prepare for the task and to support them throughout the process. This webinar discusses what has been helpful, what’s been learnt, and future planning.

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  • JCPP Editorial: Volume 63, Issue 11, November 2022

    Editorial: Accelerated epigenetic ageing as a consequence of early environmental adversity by Barbara Franke

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  • Looked after child getting a hug

    Trauma & Looked After Children

    ACAMH in collaboration with Child and Family Training (C&FT) and Improved Futures (IF) present a series of Briefing Seminars on ‘Dealing with distress, restoring well-being, and promoting resilience of Looked After Children and young people who have suffered extensive trauma’.

    Event type
    4 x 2 hour webinars
    Location
    LIVE STREAM
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  • How to cope - book cover

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

    We were delighted to welcome a top class panel of speakers to give evidence based advice and a lived experience perspective to parents, teachers, and clinicians. We are joined by Ursula Saunders, Dr. Alice Welham, Professor Roz Shafran authors of new book How to Cope When Your Child Can’t. Also, we have the Charlie Waller Trust who are developing parent peer support as a crucial part of their work in addressing the mental health of children and young people. Offering evidence -based training and resources and using co-production with parents with lived experience, CWT’s community includes renowned authorities on adolescent psychology, childhood anxiety and depression.

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    Supporting children and families experiencing domestic violence: A Devon and Cornwall perspective – Recording

    During the covid-19 pandemic, increasing incidents of domestic violence have made national headlines. This event focused on facets of the multidisciplinary approach to supporting affected families, hearing from practitioners, local authority representatives and researchers who work to support children and adolescents who have experienced domestic violence or related trauma, and their families.

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  • Dr. Ana Pascual Sanchez

    How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? – CAMHS around the Campfire recording

    For this session we welcomed Dr. Ana Pascual-Sanchez, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, to discuss her CAMH paper ‘How are parenting practices associated with bullying in adolescents? A cross-sectional study’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.

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