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Associations between School-Level Disadvantage, Bullying Involvement and Children’s Mental Health Bullying in school age children is a risk factor for difficulties with mental health. This study aimed to better understand whether disadvantage influences the association between bullying and mental health in school age children. This paper reports on findings from the baseline data collection for …

ADHD is one of the most common childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and is associated with difficulties in daily activities for children and later, as adults. ADHD is thought to be a combination of genetic and psychosocial factors, that give the opportunity to influence impact of the disorder, should the relevant psychosocial factors be understood. One factor …

Hutchings, Judy, Margiad Williams, and Patti Leijten. “Attachment, Behavior Problems and Interventions.” (2023) Attachment theory has been a popular way to help understand why some children behave in ways parents find difficult to manage, whilst behavioural theory has been criticized as being over simplistic by focusing on externalising behaviours, rather than internal processes. When we …

Margiad and Ruth attended the World Anti-Bullying Forum in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 2023. This is the largest anti-bullying conference in the world and is held every two years. Margiad was involved in a symposium about the KiVa Stand Together trial results where she spoke about the process evaluation (how schools delivered the programme …

Lauren and Ruth attended the KESS 2 awards event in Cardiff, where CEIT was presented with an award for being shortlisted for the business sustainability award. CEIT partners with CEBEI to provide Masters and Doctorate scholarships with KESS 2. The partnership with CEBEI and KESS have provided opportunities for continuing development and evaluation of interventions …

Professor Judy Hutchings was asked to be a keynote speaker at the 4-day BABCP conference in July. Keynote speakers – BABCP2023 In July, Judy attended the 50th anniversary British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference in Cardiff. She was an invited keynote speaker partly because she had been a member for 47 years …

Dr Margiad Williams and Dr Anwen Williams attended the Cardiff National Education show with Bangor University, in October.

Parenting for Lifelong Health is now a registered charity based at Oxford University. In October Professor Judy Hutchings went to Oxford to train people working for the global parenting initiative that is taking forward the parenting for lifelong health programmes. The purpose of the three-day training was to give people a background to the science …

The EUSPR conference 2023 was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It covered a wide array of topics, but the main theme was improving prevention infrastructure. We heard about optimising online parenting interventions, parenting in crisis and the prevention of child sexual abuse. Parenting in a crisis was most striking, as The Department of Social …

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Conference. 24-28th September 2023 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Conference partners: Childlight Global Child Safety Institute. Patrons: Police Scotland. The ISPCAN 4-day conference hosted 800 people from 71 countries. ISPCAN have a new journal, Child Protection and Practice. Professor Judy Hutchings spoke at this …

Professor Judy Hutchings was one of the Bangor University staff to attend an event for 180 alumni, honorary fellows, friends of the University, guests who were hosted in the Cholmondeley Room and terrace of the House of Lords, London on Tuesday, 12 September, 2023. Guests were welcomed by Lord DafyddWigley and addressed by Bangor University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. …

Claire undertook research into the book sharing programme, recruiting parents for a pilot online version of the programme (Books together). She completed her thesis, successfully passed her viva and graduated this summer.