Date: 27 - 28 April 2023
Time: 08:00 - 15:30
Venue: db San Antonio Hotel + Spa, St. Paul's Bay
: ACAMH committee is excited to present the upcoming programme for this year's child and adolescent conference which will focus on Bullying and beyond: the link with mental Health. This will take place on 27-28 April 2023 at the db San Antonio Hotel + Spa, St. Paul's Bay.
The ACAMH's annual conference is set to return in April! This year discussing Bullying and Beyond. Our conferences are designed to provide relevant information, personal insight, practical skills and strategies for professionals working in child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing.
Several decades of research devoted to the study of bullying has created deeper awareness and understanding of these phenomena. Despite these great strides there is still more work that remains to be done. This conference is designed to encourage us to think creatively about how new strategies might forge new ground in understanding and addressing bullying amongst children and adolescents.
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Programme
Day One
- 08:00 Registration
- 08:50 Welcome by ACAMH Malta Chair – Dr Rosemarie Sacco
- 09:00 Inauguration Speech: Minister
- 09:15 Prof. Stephen Scott - Parenting and attachment styles associated with children becoming bullies or victims, and effects of intervention in schools
Kings College London and National Academy for Parenting Research - 10:00 Prof. Lucy Bowes - The complex relationship between bullying and mental health: Nature, nurture and resilience
University of Oxford - 10:45 Questions from the floor
- 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:15 Panel: The link between Bullying and Crime. Invited panel speakers include Inspector Sylvana Gafa (Victim Support ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ), Ms. Maria Zammit (Victim Support Unit), Mr Karl Grech (Victim Support Malta)
- 11:45 Dr David Paul Galea - “Playground Politic: integrity, porosity and the object relations of bullyingâ€
Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital - 12:30 Trainee Competition:
Dr Gloria Montebello: A restorative justice practice in a Maltese state middle school
Dr Jonas Muscat: Psychiatric patients’ experiences of seclusion and practical suggestions on how to improve practices
Dr Martha Apap Bologna: Trends in Substance use-related admissions to Mount Carmel Hospital
Ms Claire Abela: The mental health needs of 16-to-18-year-old students in Level 1 to 3 vocational education in Malta - 13:10 Questions from the floor
- 13:30 Lunch
- 14:15 - 15:30 Delivering parenting programmes online: effectively widening access and reducing cost? - Prof. Stephen Scott
- 14:15-15:30 How can we prevent bullying, and support young people who have experienced it? - Prof. Lucy Bowes
Day Two
- 08:00 Registration
- 08:30 Coffee
- 08:50 Welcome by ACAMH Malta Chair – Dr Rosemarie Sacco
- 09:00 Dr Gabriel Ellul: Challenging ‘challenging behaviour’: a trauma-informed paradigm
Maudsley Hospital, London - 09:45 Dr Nuri Gene-Cos: Long-term effects of bullying in childhood: why we need to take it seriously
Maudsley Hospital, London - 10:30 Questions from the floor
- 10:45 Coffee Break
- 11:00 Dr Giulietta Aparecida Cucchiaro: Gender dysphoria and bullying: The importance of clinical assessment
State University of Campinas, Brazil - 11:20 Dr Damian Spiteri: Enmeshed relationships in families of origin and their implications for becoming a bullying victim
University of Malta - 11:40 Ms Marianna Micallef Grimaud: Restorative Practices- strengthening and Repairing connections
National School Support ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ - 12:00 Prof. Joseph Giordmaina: From Perpetrators to Victims: The Link between Bullying and Mental Health among Persons in Prison
University of Malta - 12:30 Panel: Bullying in Schools: Invited speakers include Mr. Ryan Portelli (School Counsellor), Mr. Aaron Zammit Apap (BeBrave), Ms. Deborah Vassallo (BeSmartOnline), Ms. Jessica Zahra (School Guidance Teacher)
- 13:00 Questions from the floor
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:15 - 15:30 Dr Nuri Gene-Cos and Dr Gabriel Ellul - Making sense of childhood bullying: a practical trauma-informed approach
- 14:15 - 15:30 Dr David Paul Galea – Lord of the flies: understanding and re-solving conflict through triangulationâ€
