Know Yourself: Adolescents Asking Experts about Mental Health

We are thrilled to invite you to “Know Yourself: Adolescents Asking Experts about Mental Health”, a free interactive event that puts young people in the driver’s seat to explore the topics that matter most to them.

Date: Tuesday 4 February 2025
Time: 5:30–7:30 pm
Location: UCL (exact venue TBC) and online attendance available.

This event is open to adolescents, their families, educators, clinicians, university students, academic researchers, and anyone interested in children’s and young people’s mental health.

What to expect:

• A unique panel discussion where adolescents interview leading mental health researchers on the topics that most matter to them.
• Insights from experts renowned for making mental health science accessible and impactful.
• Inspiring conversations.

We are privileged to have a distinguished line-up of speakers/experts:

Professor Essi Viding

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology Research Department, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL. She is the Pro Vice Provost for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge at UCL, together with Prof Argyris Stringaris, and chairs UCL's Children and Young People's Special Interest Group.

Professor Alexandra Pitman

Professor of Psychiatry in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the veterans' mental health service at Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust and Co-lead of the UCL Institute of Mental Health (IoMH) Special Interest Group (SIG) in Self-Harm and Suicide.

Dr Georgina Krebs

Associate Professor in Young Person's Mental Health and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology Research Department, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL. She is co-director of UCL’s Anxiety, Self-Image and Mood (AIM) Lab and the AIM clinic, and Research Director of UCL’s University Clinic

Further speakers/experts to be announced.

Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out!

This event is supported by UCL’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health Special Interest Group and UCL’s Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing.