2024 Programme Schedule and Recordings


The UCD ACAP Weekly Webinar Series will return on Friday 6th September 2024. 

Friday 20th September

12:30pm

REGISTER

The Care Quality Commission in England; time for a revalidation

Dr Prasanna de Silva

Clinical Academic and Medical Journalist

Consultant in Adult & Old Age Psychiatry

Friday 27th September

12:30pm

Shaping attention in neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence in conduct disorder and autism.

Dr Jeffrey Glennon

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

The Conway Institute, UCD School of Medicine

Friday 4th October

12:30pm

Why evolutionary science is important for Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists

Dr Annie Swanepoel

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, SET CAMHS Learning disability team, Northeast London Foundation Trust

Co-chair, World Psychiatric Association Evolutionary Psychiatry Section Finance Officer, Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Friday 11th October

12:30pm

Impact of Childhood Adversities and Pathways to Resilience and Wellbeing across the Lifespan

Prof Shanta R. Dube

Director, Master of Public Health Program, Department of Public Health, Levine College of Health Sciences, Wingate University

Friday 18th October

12:30pm

Is it now time to prepare psychiatry for a psychedelic future?

Prof David Nutt

Prof of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London

Chief Research Officer of Awaknlifesciences

Friday 25th October

12:30pm

Topic: Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and child inhibitory control

Dr Tone Kristine Hermansen

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

Friday 1st November

12:30pm

Impact of Therapy on Medication Use and Mental Health Hospitalisations: a data linkage study

Professor Kevin Dyer

Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Psychological Therapies Service (Northern Health and Social Care Trust)

Dr Julie-Ann Jordan

Senior Researcher in Forensic Managed Care Network (IMPACT Research Centre, Northern Health and Social Care Trust)

Friday 8th November

12:30pm

Evidence-based practice with Young People with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: an update

Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh

Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist

National and Specialist CAMHS - Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Friday 15th November

12:30pm

The economics of child anxiety problems

Dr Mara Violato

Associate Professor

Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)

Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

Friday 22nd November

12:30pm

Effects of screen use on children's cognitive development and academic learning

Dr Jonathan Bernard

Researcher in Paediatric Epidemiology, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Paris, France (Inserm/INRAE/Université Paris Cité/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Shuai Yang

PhD Student, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), Paris, France (Inserm/INRAE/Université Paris Cité/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Friday 6th December 

12:30pm

Topic: Behavioural activation as a treatment for adolescent depression

Prof Lina Gega, PhD BA(Hons) BN(Hons) RMN ENB650

Professor of Mental Health, Hull York Medical School

Director, The Institute of Mental Health Research at York, Vice Chancellor's Department, University of York

Friday 13th December

12:30pm

Topic: Experiences of parents and children with children who have speech language and communication needs

Prof Susan Roulstone, PhD, MEd, FRCSLT, DH

Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol

Access recordings below - please note that these become accessible around 1-2 weeks after the webinar has taken place.

Friday 12th January

12:30pm

 

Cognitive disengagement syndrome (sluggish cognitive tempo)

Dr Stephen Becker

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Research, Co-Director of the Center for ADHD, and Endowed Chair in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

 

Friday 19th January

12:30pm

 

Association of cannabis, cannabis potency, cannabidiol, and synthetic cannabinoid use with mental health in UK adolescents

Please note that a recording is not available.

Professor James White

Deputy Director of Population Health and Social Care Trials at the Centre for Trials Research and DECIPHer centre based at Cardiff University

 

Friday 26th January

12:30pm

 

Heterogeneity in children's reading comprehension difficulties: A latent class approach

Dr Emma James

Developmental Psychologist

Lecturer in Psychology, University of York

 

Friday 2nd February 

12:30pm

 

Programmed cell death and Death by suicide; a functional comparison

Dr Prasanna deSilva

Clinical Academic and Medical Journalist

Consultant in Adult & Old Age Psychiatry

 

Friday 9th February

12:30pm

(pre-recorded session)

 

Health Inequalities, Children and Young People

Prof Sir Michael Marmot

Director of the Institute of Health Equity (UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)

 

Friday 16th February 

12:30pm

 

Suicidal behavior in recent onset psychotic disorders

Prof Ingrid Melle

Psychiatrist

Professor of Adult Psychiatry, Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo

 

Friday 23rd February

12:30pm

 

Evidence-based Approaches to the Prevention of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior

Dr David Brent

Academic Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Epidemiology & Clinical Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

Friday 1st March

12:30pm

 

What can we do to help parents prevent anxiety in their children

Dr Fiona Challacombe

Clinical Psychologist Section of Women’s Mental Health, HSPR, IOPPN, King’s College London

 

Friday 8th March

12:30pm

 

Music as a Tool for Trauma Therapy

Please note that a recording is not available.

Dr Jessica Griffin

Exec Director, Lifeline For Kids (formerly the Child Trauma Training Center)

Exec Director, Resilience Through Relationships Initiative

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusettes

Dr Jessica Wozniak, PsyD Clinical

Psychologist Baystate Medical Center

Department of Psychiatry Springfield

MA Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate (UMMS

 

Friday 15th March

Targeting neonatal immune function to prevent long term tertiary brain injury

Prof Eleanor Molloy

Professor & Chair of Paediatrics, Trinity College Dublin

Consultant Neonatologist & Paediatrician, Coombe Women and Infant’s University Hospital, the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght, and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin

 

Friday 22nd March

 

Genetics of childhood developmental psychopathology: challenges and opportunities

Please note that a recording is not available.

Dr Jacob Vorstman

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, The Hospital for Sick Children Senior Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology Program

The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute Director, Autism Research Unit

The Hospital for Sick Children Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Medical Science at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

 

Friday 29th March - Break for Good Friday

Please note that no webinar took place on Friday 5th April.

 Friday 12th April

Reducing Parental Conflict to Improve Psychological Outcomes for Children and Adolescents

Prof Gordon Harold ACAP Webinar Slides

 

Professor Gordon Harold

Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health Director, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Research and Professional Practice Centre Director, UKRI Mental Health Network+ (eNurture) Co-Director, Cambridge Public Health (CPH) Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College

Friday 19th April

Creating a Learning health System

Dr Tom Foley

Consultant Psychiatrist at Inishowen CAMHS

Adjunct Associate Professor at UCD

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University and a Clinical Lead on the HSE Integrated Community Case Management System

Friday 26th April

Can Psychotherapy help the Psychiatrist?

Dr Shay Ward

Senior Registrar in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Lucena Clinic

Occasional Lecturer, UCD School of Medicine & Medical Science, Child Art Psychotherapy Postgraduate Programmes & the UCD School of Psychotherapy

 

Friday 3rd May

Helping Children and Young People Recover after Potentially Traumatic Events

Dr David Trickey ACAP Webinar Slides

Dr David Trickey

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council

 

Friday 10th May

 

Suicide and the Law

Professor Liz Wicks - Suicide and Law ACAP Slides

Professor Liz Wicks

Professor of Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law at the Leicester Law School, University of Leicester

 

Friday 24th May

Personality Function, Dysfunction, and the Social Domains Organisation of Mentalizing Processes

Prof Jonathan Hill

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Reading

Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

Friday 31st May

Please note that this webinar has been postponed.

What are the adult psychiatric outcomes for patients of child and adolescent mental health services?

Prof Ian Kelleher

Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Academy of Medical Sciences

Professor Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences (CCBS), University of Edinburgh

 

Friday 7th June

Chronic loneliness in adults: antecedents, consequences, and moderators

Dr Iris Ji

Research Associate, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Research and Professional Practice Centre

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

 

Friday 14th June

Please note that this webinar has been postponed.

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

Prof Sinéad McGilloway

Director, Centre for Mental Health and Community Research, Maynooth University Department of Psychology and the MU Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI)

 

Friday 21st June

Self-Harm & Suicide in Northern Ireland: New evidence from linked administrative data

Dr Aideen Maguire

Psychiatric Epidemiologist, Queens University, Belfast

 

Friday 28th June

 

CBTE vs FT for CAMHS in ED

Dr Agnes Ayton

Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS FT Vice Chair of the Faculty of Eating Disorders at RCPsych

 

Friday 5th July

Please note that this webinar was postponed and took place on Friday 13th September.

 

The Colour of Madness

Dr Samara Linton

Award-winning writer, content producer, and former junior doctor

Her work includes Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography (2020) and The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour (2022)

 

Friday 12th July

Negative Parenting, Epigenetic Age, and Psychological Problems

Dr Stefanos Mastrotheodoros

Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete

Researcher, Department of Youth and Family, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

 

Friday 19th July 

The Importance of Early Relationships

Ms Sally Hogg

Senior Policy Fellow, Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning(PEDAL), University of Cambridge

 

Friday 26th July

Neural reward processing in children and adolescents and links with depression risk and prevention

Dr Katie Burkhouse

Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn State University

 

Break for August

Friday 6th September

Interventions to prevent or manage self-harm among students in educational settings – a systematic review

Please note that a recording is not available.

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz

Fourth-year PhD Student and Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

 

Friday 13th September

The Colour of Madness

Please note that a recording is not available.

Dr Samara Linton

Award-winning writer, content producer, and former Junior doctor Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) MQ Fellows Award 2024 Funding Committee