2025 Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Conference

2025 Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Conference is organized by Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association (ANZMH) and will be held from Mar 24 - 26, 2025 at JW Marriott Gold Coast Resort & Spa, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

Description:
The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference brings together some of the country's most dedicated CAMH sector leaders and workers, mental health professionals, bright minds, youth advocates and service providers in the one place for three big days of learning, listening, strategising and conceptualising advanced mental health outcomes of all young people.

CAMH25 Topics:

School-Based Interventions

• Teacher well-being and child mental health: Practical tips for promoting emotional wellbeing and addressing compassion fatigue
• Managing social media and online safety in schools: Resources for teachers
• Handling disclosures of abuse: Best practices for teachers handling disclosures and creating safety
• Empowering student success through self-care
• Early intervention and support: Using literacy and language to reduce stigma and strategies for identifying and supporting anxiety
• Trauma-informed practice in schools: Supporting mental health in education through trauma-informed teaching practices
• The role of early childhood education in supporting mental health and development

Embracing Neurodiversity: Understanding and supporting the mental health of neurodivergent young people

• Advancing mental health services for young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): Harnessing special interests and navigating social, academic, and personal challenges
• Fostering self-esteem, identity and purpose in neurodivergent young people: Inclusive practices and cultural changes
• Restrictive eating disorders (ARFID) and autism
• Aggressive behaviours and ADHD symptoms in childhood
• ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity

Trauma: Understanding and Addressing the Impact

• Addressing racism and enhancing cultural competency: Improving mental health outcomes for First Nations and Indigenous young people
• Understanding the range of impact and treatment options for trauma and traumatic bereavement
• Resilience, posttraumatic growth and community-based support: Nurturing positive mindsets recovering from trauma
• Creative therapies for trauma: Incorporating music, art and somatic play therapy in the treatment
• Utilising fiction to support grieving young people

Navigating the Digital Age: Social Media, Technology, and Mental Health Outcomes

• Social media and mental health: Expert insights, user types and the impact of digital engagement on wellbeing
• Online pornography: perspectives on mental health impacts
• Cyber-bullying and online safety: Preventing and addressing sextortion and its impacts
• The impact of social media on eating disorders, sleep and affective wellbeing
• Gambling and gaming: Mental health implications and prevention

Emerging Threats & Innovative Approaches to Mental Health

• Preventing suicide and self-harm: Latest research, evidence-based interventions and support strategies
• Understanding and supporting young people with OCD and anxiety: Prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment
• Examining the mental health effects of climate change and ecological crises, housing crisis and economic instability
• Addressing bullying and harmful sexual behaviours: Dynamics, prevention strategies and support
• Eating disorders, disordered eating: Addressing prevalence, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

From Theory to Practice: What’s Helping and Hindering

• The application of music therapy to improve mental health outcomes
• The role of sleep and nutrition
• Addressing the impact of stress on mental health in secondary school-aged students
• Understanding and addressing body image issues
• Promoting positive youth development and wellbeing through strength-based and outdoor activities
• Brain-Based Coping Strategies: Activating the brain for change and wellbeing
• Assisting family support workers: Integrated Family Services, working with families of young people with mental health concerns

Family Matters: Family dynamics and mental health outcomes

• Smartphone use and its impact on parenting and young people’s mental health
• Fostering strong connections and understanding family dynamics to promote mental wellbeing in young people
• Strategies to support with school avoidance
• The impact of domestic violence on mental health and strategies for intervention
• Parenting practices, mood and anxiety disorders: Understanding the impact on young people of depressed parents
• Skills and strategies for parenting young people with intense emotional needs
• LGBTQI+ and multicultural mental health: Affirming support and diverse cultural approaches
• Parental coping strategies in the context of young people’s mental health
• Addressing the stress and frustration experienced by caregivers in the context of young people's mental health treatment

Embracing Equity in Mental Health Care

• Addressing disparities and socioeconomic challenges: Promoting equitable mental health care and preventing homelessness
• Supporting gender identity and LGBTQ+: Addressing mental health challenges and debunking myths
• Improving mental health outcomes for those with intellectual and physical disabilities

The First 2000 Days: Foundations of Early Childhood Mental Health

• The importance of early childhood mental health: Critical impact, early identification, and intervention
• Attachment, bonding, and the role of play in early childhood mental health
• Nutrition, parental mental health and their impact on early brain development
• Integrating mental health support into early childhood education