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2026 Webinar Series

2026 Programme Schedule and Recordings

Date

Topic

Speaker

Friday, 16th January, 2026

12.30PM

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Social Media Use and Mental Health

Dr Lizzy Winstone

Friday, 23rd January, 2026

12:30pm

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Modular Interventions for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Dr Arnon Bentovim

Friday, 30th January, 2026

12:30pm

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Preparing for the Brain Economy Decade: 2030 to 2040

Harris Eyre

Friday, 6th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Novel Methods of Identifying Suicidal Individuals

Assistant Professor Michael Bronstein

Friday, 13th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Time Trends in Youth Mental Health

Prof Stephan Collishaw

Friday, 20th February, 2026

12:30pm

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Eat. Treat. Repeat. Tailored Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in Children and Adolescents

Dr Eric Dumont

Friday, 27th February, 2026 12:30pm

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Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Youth Mental Health Ecosystems

Assoc Prof Jessica Schleider

Friday, 6th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Rights-based School & Community Mental-health Policy

Dr Soumitra Pathare, MD, Director

Friday, 13th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Schizophrenia

Prof Sarah Bergen

Friday, 20th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Brain Mechanisms Linked to Social Stress, Environmental Risk and Resilience

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Director

Friday, 27th March, 2026

12:30pm

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Violence Risk, Justice-involved Youth, Outcomes & Services

Prof Seena Fazel

Friday, 3rd April, 2026

12:30pm

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Suicide Crisis Syndrome

Prof Igor Galynker

Friday, 10th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Mental-health Systems & Financing for Youth Services

Prof Crick Lund

Friday, 17th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Dramatherapy

Eleanor Keiller

Friday, 24th April, 2026

12:30pm

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Youth Social Prescribing for Mental Health: Research and Implications for Practice

Dr Daniel Hayes

Friday, 1st May, 2026

12:30pm

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Theatre, Creative Arts and Mental Health

Dr Maria Turri

Friday, 8th May, 2026

12:30pm

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OCD, Digital CBT & Real-world Implementation for Teens

Prof Christian Ruck

Friday, 15th May, 2026

12:30pm

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Exploring the Relationship Between Decision-making and Social Media use Among Adolescents in South Africa.

Prof Eugene Davids

Friday, 22nd May, 2026

12:30pm

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) to Irish Public Policy.

Assoc Prof Nat O Connor

Friday, 29th May, 2026

12:30pm

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4 Decades of Obesity and GLP-1

Prof Donal O'Shea

Friday, 5th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Sabina Spielrein, Early Women Psychoanalysis as a Collective Force or Women Psychoanalysts who Emigrated to the US

Prof Klara Naszkowska

Friday, 12th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Inflammation and Adolescent Depression

Assoc Prof Johnna Swartz

Friday, 19th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Affective Neuroscience of Antidepressants in Adolescents

Prof Catherine Harmer

Friday, 26th June, 2026

12:30pm

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Parental Mental Illness and Child Depression

Dr Belinda Weber

Friday, 3rd July, 2026

12:30pm

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Latest Evidence on Behavioural Activation as Treatment for Depression in Adolescents

Prof Lina Gega

Friday, 10th July, 2026

12:30pm

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Perinatal Anxiety Disorders

Dr Susanne Schweizer

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