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Live stream, 02/04/25. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email. A must-attend for professionals dedicated to enhancing outcomes for young people with anxiety disorders.
This year’s eargerly anticipated Emanuel Miller International Conference brings together leading advancements in anxiety research and treatment, offering attendees insights into innovative approaches and the latest evidence-based practices. It will explore cutting-edge developments in neurobiological mechanisms, cognitive approaches, family-based interventions, integration of digital delivery, and adaptations in neurodiverse young people.
A pheonomenal line-up includes; Professor Cathy Creswell, Associate Professor Tenure Dylan Gee, Dr. Matt Hollocks, Dr. Georgina Krebs, Assistant Professor Eleanor Leigh, Professor David Mataix-Cols, Professor Richard Meiser-Stedman, Dr. Wendy Silverman.
NEW VIDEO RELEASE
Dr. Victoria Powell addresses the effect of parental depression on child mental health. She highlights her work on understanding risk and protective factors for depression across different life stages and the epidemiology of depression. (Duration 39 mins)
Learning objectives
1. Understand parental depression's impact on child mental health.
2. Examine psychopathology findings in offspring.
3. Explore prevention strategies for high-risk youth.
NEW BLOG
Brain differences in children who show symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Dr. Michelle Sader is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, currently working on the Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative research network.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of children showing symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) show differences in certain brain regions relative to children without ARFID symptoms. Findings from this work serve to improve our general understanding of ARFID and may help inform on ARFID-related services or our understanding of ARFID.
The current literature on ARFID begs the following question: are there structural differences in the brains of children with ARFID symptoms?
EVENTS
Online, 24/01/25, from ￡40
How can meaningful participation be accomplished? Find out from young people, parent/carers and those involved in facilitating participation. Gain an understanding of the importance of meaningful participation, the benefits of quality engagement of young people and top tips for getting it right.
Online, 28/01/25, ￡5
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’.
Online, 30/01/25, ￡30
This session will outline the roles that named nurses and doctors undertake, how they support the CAMHS clinicians, will explore the range of issues that they become involved in on a daily basis and how they deliver robust and bespoke level 3 training to staff who work with risk.
Online, 11/02/25, ￡5
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.
Online, 19/02/25, ￡5
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The webinar is tailored specifically for those in the early stages of their career. This session is perfect for medical students, psychology and nursing students seeking their first research experience, and undergraduates transitioning to Masters or PhD programs.
Online, 25/02/25, ￡5
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.
Online, 06/03/25, ￡40
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.
VIDEO EXPLAINERS
Assistant Professor Clare Harrop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Duration 10 mins)
Learning objectives
1. To understand the historical gender disparities in autism diagnosis
2. To identify factors contributing to delayed or misdiagnosis in females ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
3. To recognise phenotypical differences according to sex ? ?
Dr. Karen Horridge, Visiting professor of childhood disability and development, University of Sunderland. (Duration 5 mins)
Learning objectives
1. To understand the conceptual framework of disability of the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Disability, Functioning, and Health (the ICF)
2. To use the framework to better understand a person's wider needs and context, to co-design outcomes and plan actions or interventions that are meaningful to each person ? ? ?
Prof. David Daley, Nottingham Trent University. (Duration 13 mins)
Learning objectives
1. To understand the specific challenges of parenting children with ADHD and learn tailored intervention strategies. ?
2. To recognise how ADHD impacts parent-child interactions and discover ways to enhance these relationships.
3. To apply effective behavioural techniques that improve outcomes for children with ADHD in everyday situations. ? ?
PODCAST EXAMPLES
With our children being our future and our long-term societal wellbeing depending on them, Professor Kate Pickett and Professor Richard Wilkinson provide insight into their recent CAMH journal Editorial ‘Socio-economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health’. Richard and Kate are co-authors of the bestselling and award winning The Spirit Level (2009). The New Statesman listed it in the Top Ten Books of the Decade, and the Guardian among the 100 most influential books of the century. (Duration 30 mins)
Recently, there has been an increase in the amount of effort dedicated to ensuring that scientific knowledge can be mobilised to make a positive impact on individuals and society. Dr. Fatos Selita and Professor Yulia Kovas (pic) discuss their co-authored JCPP Editorial ‘For better or for worse? Intended and unintended consequences of science communication’.?(Duration 37 mins)
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Ali Fildes, Dr. Moritz Herle, Dr. Zeynep Nas, and Dr. Clare Llewellyn (pic) discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort’. There is an overview of the paper, key findings, and implications for practice. (Duration 36 mins)
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