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16 in person, 24 online

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24 Sept to 23 Oct 2026

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  • October 2026

  • The Therapeutic Brain: Psychological Interventions in Neuropsychological Practice

    Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 10:00 to 16:00Glasgow · Scotland · pin 1

    The BPS Division of Neuropsychology Scotland's annual day on therapy after acquired brain injury and neurological conditions: compassion focused therapy, EMDR, family work and sleep interventions.

    British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Neuropsychology Scotlandchecked 23 Oct 2026

    £35 concession (student, retired, unwaged), £55 DON members, £65 BPS members, £80 non-membersBooking closed

  • Family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa

    Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 14:00Online

    A masterclass on family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • November 2026

  • Tell me what I want to hear: a play about anxiety, loneliness and an AI companion

    Monday 2 Nov 2026, 16:00 to 18:00Liverpool · North West · pin 2

    A staged reading of a play about a young man who turns to an AI companion to cope with anxiety and grows more isolated. The audience then discusses it with the cast.

    Liverpool John Moores University, ESRC Festival of Social Sciencechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Doing justice to children's voices

    Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, 18:30 to 20:30Bristol · South West · pin 3

    An evening on how children's voices can be better heard in healthcare, education and social care, with young people's creative work and a panel of practitioners and researchers. Also online.

    University of Bristol, ESRC Festival of Social Sciencechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Free

  • DHP Wales networking and CPD morning: acceptance and commitment therapy

    Wednesday 4 Nov 2026, 10:00 to 13:00Cardiff · Wales · pin 4

    A BPS Division of Health Psychology morning in Cardiff for health psychology professionals, trainees and students: networking, then a refresher or introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

    British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Health Psychology Waleschecked 10 Oct 2026

    £12 non-members, free to BPS members

  • Poverty and suicide in Scotland: where are we now and what happens next?

    Wednesday 4 Nov 2026, 10:00 to 12:30Edinburgh · Scotland · pin 5

    A panel and creative workshop on tackling poverty as suicide prevention in Scotland after the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections, with speakers from suicide prevention, policy and research. Free and open to all.

    University of Edinburgh, ESRC Festival of Social Sciencechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Free

  • The autistic wonder years: videos from an autistic childhood, explained in adulthood

    Wednesday 4 Nov 2026, 11:30 to 12:30Online

    An autistic adult shows video of himself as a child and explains what lay behind his autistic behaviour then, for people who work with autistic children and adults.

    University of Cambridgechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Assessment tools and interventions for emotion dysregulation

    Starts Wednesday, 4–11 Nov 2026, 14:00Online

    A two-session short course on practical ways to assess and work with emotion dysregulation, including in neurodivergent young people. Both sessions are included in one booking.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Living with aphasia: decision making, communication and research

    Wednesday 4 Nov 2026, 17:30 to 19:30Manchester · North West · pin 6

    An interactive workshop on language and thought, with research on people with severe language impairment, for researchers, clinicians, charities, stroke survivors and their families.

    Manchester Metropolitan University, ESRC Festival of Social Sciencechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Spinning and losing: compulsive gambling, indebtedness and trauma

    Friday 6 Nov 2026, 10:30 to 12:00Online

    Findings from interviews with more than thirty people who have gambled compulsively, on the part trauma and repetition play, then a discussion of what that means for treatment, prevention and policy.

    University of Salford and Northumbria University, ESRC Festival of Social Sciencechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Autism: camouflaging and masking

    Tuesday 10 Nov 2026, 15:00Online

    The evidence on camouflaging and masking in autism, particularly in children and adolescents, and what it means for assessment and clinical practice.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Adverse childhood experiences and mental health: disentangling risk, causality and resilience

    Thursday 12 Nov 2026, 14:00 to 15:30Cambridge · East of England · pin 7

    A Chaucer Club seminar at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit on adverse childhood experiences and mental health: risk, causality and resilience. All welcome, no need to register.

    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridgechecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Early intervention: a critical period for treating emerging severe mental illness

    Friday 13 Nov 2026, 17:30 to 18:30Oxford · South East · pin 8

    Somerville College's annual lecture on mental health, this year on early intervention in emerging severe mental illness. All welcome; sign up in advance.

    Somerville College, University of Oxfordchecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Maltreatment, trauma-related disorders and neurodivergence

    Monday 16 Nov 2026, 13:00Online

    How maltreatment and trauma-related disorders interact with neurodivergence, and what that means for assessment and formulation.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Psychedelic therapy: mechanisms, promises and challenges

    Tuesday 17 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 10:30Oxford · South East · pin 8

    A seminar on the evidence for psychedelic therapy in depression, addiction and disordered eating, and what health services would need to do to offer it responsibly.

    University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Helping anxious parents raise confident children

    Tuesday 17 Nov 2026, 14:00Online

    Working with anxious parents to prevent the intergenerational transmission of anxiety, including reducing accommodating behaviours.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Coaching for clinical psychologists

    Friday 20 Nov 2026, 13:00 to 17:00London · London · pin 9

    A BPS Division of Clinical Psychology afternoon on coaching approaches in client work and for career development. The BPS pitches it at clinical psychologists at all career stages; non-members can book.

    British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Clinical Psychologychecked 23 Oct 2026

    £20 DCP members, £30 BPS members, £40 non-members

  • Transdiagnostic mechanisms of mental health: insights from computational modelling

    Tuesday 24 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 10:30Oxford · South East · pin 8

    A seminar on dimensions that cut across diagnoses such as depression and eating disorders, what computational models of learning can and cannot show, and a critical look at the method's limits.

    University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • The Adolescent Story Stem Profile: attachment, affect and mentalisation

    Tuesday 24 Nov 2026, 17:00Online

    An introduction to the Adolescent Story Stem Profile, a clinical tool for exploring attachment, affect and mentalisation in adolescents. ACAMH lists it as free to members.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Understanding and managing adolescent sleep problems

    Wednesday 25 Nov 2026, 09:00Online

    The causes of sleep difficulties in adolescence and the evidence-based ways of treating them.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Who are you online? Professional identity, boundaries and regulatory risk

    Thursday 26 Nov 2026, 12:00 to 13:30Online

    An ACP-UK webinar on where professional responsibility begins and ends online: self-disclosure, social media and when online conduct becomes a fitness to practise concern, drawing on HCPC standards.

    Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK)

    £30, free to ACP-UK members

  • Autism: the double edge of diagnosis

    Friday 27 Nov 2026, 09:30 to 16:30Taunton · South West · pin 10

    A day on what an autism diagnosis does clinically, socially and personally, who it helps, and how clinicians weigh autism against trauma and other needs. Designed, the BPS says, for psychologists, trainees and students.

    British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Clinical Psychology and South West of England Branchchecked 23 Oct 2026

    £20 concession, £30 BPS members, £50 non-members

  • December 2026

  • Reproductive psychiatry: birth of a field

    Tuesday 1 Dec 2026, 09:30 to 10:30Oxford · South East · pin 8

    A seminar on what is known about reproductive transitions, such as the menstrual cycle and menopause, and severe mental illness, and on taking hormones into account in research. Also online.

    University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatrychecked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Understanding and responding to self-harm

    Tuesday 1 Dec 2026, 10:30Online

    ACAMH's international online conference on self-harm in young people: the latest evidence, risk and engagement with care.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Theory of mind in natural and artificial intelligence

    Wednesday 2 Dec 2026, 14:00Online

    A webinar in King's AI Frontiers series on computational models of theory of mind in people and in artificial intelligence, and what they mean for psychiatry.

    King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Severe mental illness in young people: diagnosis, medication and monitoring

    Friday 4 Dec 2026, 09:30 to 12:30Online

    A half-day ACAMH webinar on psychosis and bipolar disorder in children and young people: diagnosis, pharmacological management and monitoring. ACAMH aims it at clinical psychologists and child and adolescent psychiatrists.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)checked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Digital media, peer influence and teen mental health

    Monday 7 Dec 2026, 14:00Online

    What is and is not known about digital media, peer dynamics and adolescent mental health.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Touching, boundaries and clinical judgement

    Tuesday 15 Dec 2026, 12:00 to 13:30Online

    An ACP-UK webinar on touch in therapeutic work: when it creates boundary and regulatory risk, consent, context and power, how complaints develop, and how supervision and records support sound judgement.

    Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK)checked 10 Oct 2026

    £30, free to ACP-UK members

  • School attendance and mental health: evidence, barriers and effective support

    Thursday 17 Dec 2026, 15:00 to 17:00Online

    How mental health difficulties relate to school attendance in children and young people, what young people, parents and school staff report, and the emerging evidence on what helps.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • January 2027

  • Single-session interventions for children and young people

    Thursday 21 Jan 2027, 13:00Online

    The evidence for single-session interventions and consultations in child and adolescent mental health, and the clinical skills they need.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • Muscle dysmorphia and eating disorders in boys and young men

    Thursday 28 Jan 2027, 14:00 to 15:30Online

    Assessing, diagnosing and treating eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia in boys and young men, a group often overlooked and underserved by services.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • February 2027

  • EMDR for children and adolescents with PTSD: from evidence to practice

    Tuesday 2 Feb 2027, 17:00 to 18:30Online

    An ACAMH seminar on how strong the evidence is for EMDR in treating post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, compared with other trauma-focused treatments, and on using it in practice.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)checked 10 Oct 2026

    £5, free to paying ACAMH members

  • Cognitive disengagement syndrome: understanding, assessment and clinical considerations

    Friday 26 Feb 2027, 14:00 to 15:30Online

    An ACAMH update on cognitive disengagement syndrome in children and young people (daydreaming, mental fogginess, slowed behaviour): its defining features, assessment with rating scales, and emerging evidence on interventions.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)checked 10 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • March 2027

  • Trauma, risk and clinical complexity: using formulation to guide intervention

    Monday 15 Mar 2027, 13:00Online

    Using formulation to guide intervention with young people where trauma, risk and complexity meet.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • April 2027

  • Early detection and differential diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders

    Thursday 22 Apr 2027, 14:00Online

    Early detection and differential diagnosis across language, learning and autism.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • BNA2027 International Festival of Neuroscience

    Starts Sunday, 25–28 Apr 2027Belfast · Northern Ireland · pin 11

    The British Neuroscience Association's international festival, spanning fundamental research, clinical practice and industry.

    British Neuroscience Association (BNA)

    Price on the organiser’s pageBooking not open yet

  • May 2027

  • Adapting DBT-A skills training through a neuroaffirmative lens

    Tuesday 18 May 2027, 13:00Online

    Adapting dialectical behaviour therapy skills training for adolescents to suit autistic young people.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • ADHD in adolescence: understanding challenges and supporting effective treatment

    Wednesday 26 May 2027, 16:00 to 18:00Online

    How ADHD presents in adolescence and differs from childhood, with peer relationships and academic demands, and how evidence-based treatments for teenagers are put into practice.

    Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • June 2027

  • RCPsych International Congress 2027

    Starts Monday, 14–17 Jun 2027Glasgow · Scotland · pin 1

    The Royal College of Psychiatrists' international congress. A recording package is usually sold for those who cannot attend in person.

    Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)

    Price on the organiser’s page

  • July 2027

  • BABCP Annual Conference 2027

    Starts Tuesday, 27–29 Jul 2027Exeter · South West · pin 12

    The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies annual conference, the largest CBT gathering in the UK.

    British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)checked 23 Oct 2026

    Price on the organiser’s pageBooking opens 25 Jan 2027

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