1ST Annual Youth Mental Health Research Meeting -Informing Policy, Changing Practice
The conference will take the form of a series of Lunchtime Webinars from (1-2pm) from Monday 5th to Friday 9th October 2020.
The Conference Committee:
- Gary Donohoe, YOULEAD Director, Meeting co-chair
- Caroline Heary YOULEAD co-investigator, Meeting co-chair
- Emma Frawley, YOULEAD research trainee
- Emer Conneely, YOULEAD research trainee
- Brian Keane, Youth advisor
- Emily Atkinson, Youth advisor
- Olive O’Grady, Program Co-ordinator
Register for free here:
Webinar Series:
Monday 5th Oct 1-2pm – Public health approaches to youth mental health & wellbeing:
Prof. Margaret Barry (NUI Galway) -Effective Strategies for promotion of youth mental health and wellbeing
Prof. Siobhan O’Neill (Ulster University) – Suicide prevention in young people – current issues and challenges
Followed by Q&A
Tuesday 6th Oct 1-2pm – Evidence based online interventions for youth mental health difficulties
Claudette Pretorius & Darragh McCashin (UCD) – An Overview of Technology Enabled Youth Mental Health: Perspectives from a European Project
Dr Gary O’Reilly (UCD) – Those Pesky gNATs: Online tools for CBT in young people.
Followed by Q&A
Wednesday 7th Oct 1-2pm –Understanding the anxiety epidemic in young people: before, and during, Covid-19
Dr Aileen O’Reilly (Jigsaw & UCD) – Understanding and responding to youth anxiety pre and post Covid19
Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford) – Interventions for anxiety disorders in Youth Mental Health
Followed by Q&A
Thursday 8th Oct 1-2pm – Building youth mental health services
YOULEAD Youth advisory panel – Reaching for help: A spoken word presentation based on lived experience. In collaboration with Spunout.ie
Keynote Address by Professor Max Birchwood (University of Warwick) -Youth mental health services research – Learning from the past, building for the future.
Followed by Q&A
Friday 9th Oct 1-2pm – A panel discussion focused on understanding and overcoming the barriers to youth mental health services.
Facilitated by Dr Tony Bates, Founder of Jigsaw.
Panellists: Professor Max Birchwood (University of Warwick), Mr. Ian Power (CEO, Spunout.ie), Dr Niall Muldoon (The Children’s Ombudsman), Professor Barbara Dooley (UCD & Jigsaw) and representatives from our YOULEAD Youth Advisory Panel.

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