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Friday 24th November 2006 from 4.00pm-6.00pm
Doubt in the Analysis of a Paedophile By Donald Campbell For those working psychodynamically with mentally ill individuals, doubt about their understanding and their competence is a daily occurrence. In this paper Donald Campbell will share some thoughts about the origin, nature and function of doubt based on the analytic treatment of a paedophile. He will also consider how physical pain, memory and splitting of the ego in child sexual abuse contribute to conceptualising experience, deception and doubt. In addition, he will offer a thought about how Freud's patients may have contributed to his reducing the claims he had made for his seduction theory. Donald Campbell is past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is a training analyst for child, adolescent and adult analytic candidates. In addition to private practice he worked for 30 years at the Portman Clinic, a National Health Service out-patient facility specialising in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of patients with delinquent or criminal behaviour or those suffering from a perversion. He has published over 30 papers on such subjects as violence, suicide, child sexual abuse, and adolescence. Friday 17th November 2006 from 4.00pm-6.00pm Mourning and Failure to Mourn By Patrick Casement Bereavement counseling provides a crucial service to a vulnerable group of people at a time when the rest of life can be at stake. How well, or how poorly, people cope with a bereavement may indeed mark all of the life that remains to them. And some, particularly without help, may never recover. The death of a significant person brings into sharp focus the relationship that had been, the good things and the bad. And there is work to be done in relation to each. In this paper Patrick Casement draws from his clinical work as a psychoanalyst.In the course of seeing patients in psychotherapy and in psychoanalysis, he has encountered bereavements of many different kinds. He has also had some patients who have come to see him because of a previous failure to mourn. He has had the opportunity to learn from these patients and will be exploring something of what has helped them in their mourning, and what has not helped. Patrick Casement obtained his degree at Cambridge University, in Anthropology and Theology. He then trained to become a social worker, subsequently training as an analytical psychotherapist and then as a psychoanalyst. Until he retired he was a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. His first book On Learning from the Patient, published in 1985 is now available in 20 languages. His second book, Further Learning from the Patient, was published in 1990. His next book, Learning from Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, was published in 2002, and in 2004 this book was awarded a Gradiva Award in America for its contribution to psychoanalysis. Patrick Casement's latest book (which will be his last) is due to be published in October 2006 (Routledge) with the title Learning from Life: becoming a psychoanalyst. Tuesday 31st October 2006 from 4.00pm-6.00pm Caring for children after family separation: Renegotiating the parenting contract By Karen Woodall. Director The Centre for Separated Families The issue of caring for children after family separation is currently high on the political agenda. It is also high on the personal agenda for many parents who are seeking to establish a new relationship with children when the family separates. There are many arguments about the wellbeing of children living in separated family situations, but research demonstrates that those who fare best are those in closest contact with their non resident (usually the father) parent. In the early years of a new century, is it time for a new parenting contract that abandons ideas about mothers being naturally good at caring and fathers being naturally good at providing? What makes a good enough separated parent and how can mothers and fathers be helped to renegotiate their expectations of themselves and each other so that caring and providing roles can be shared. In this talk Karen examines contemporary mothering and fathering and asks whether current personal experience is reflected in the outside political world. New ideas about the ethics of care are offered as a framework for a new way of being parents and supporting parenthood. Karen Woodall is the Director of the Centre for Separated Families and has written on gender and parenting for the Oxfam UK Poverty Programme and separated parenting for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Karen is a qualified counsellor with an interest in the psychological impact of divorce and family separation on children. Karen is co-author of Children in Focus, a parenting support programme that offers new skills and strategies for building co-operative parenting relations after family separation and is currently co-writing a workbook for separated parents to be published in 2007. Thursday 12th October from 4.00 to 6.00pm Attachment in the Classroom: Implications for Teaching and Learning By Dr Heather Geddes The talk will present the core concepts of Attachment Theory and link these to self-esteem and the capacities to communicate, to relate to the teacher and to think as key aspects of learning. Insecure Attachment will then be discussed in relation to pupil behaviour and underachievement. Participants will be encouraged to think about and discuss their own experiences of children in the light of each child’s early experiences and expectations with a focus on developing helpful interventions. Dr Heather Geddes is an educational therapist and has worked in a variety of settings in education and in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She now works privately as a therapist, supervisor and trainer and contributes to the M.A. Training in Educational Therapy at The Caspari Foundation. She has researched and published several articles on the subject of the links between early Attachment experience and behaviour and learning in school and has published a book on the subject, ‘Attachment in the Classroom: working with the struggle to learn’. Ticket Price: £10 Please click on the link at the bottom of the page to download Heather's overhead projector slides from the lecture Thursdays 28 Sept, 12 Oct, 9 Nov 2006 Therapeutic Storywriting : A 3-day training to set up Therapeutic Storywriting Groups with children aged 7-12 years Trainer: Trisha Waters Therapeutic Storywriting supports children with emotional and behavioural difficulties by working with the metaphor in their own story writing. The approach provides a way to process difficult feelings that is not emotionally overwhelming for the child. The 3-day training is suitable for teachers, learning mentors, counsellors and other professionals working with emotionally anxious children in the 7-12 age range. Therapeutic Storywriting groups have been set up in more than 80 schools and evidence-based research has shown that the intervention can lead to a significant improvement in both children’s emotional literacy and their motivation to engage with writing. More details about the model and the training can be found at www.TherapeuticStorywriting.com Trainer: Trisha is author of Therapeutic Storywriting (publ. David Fulton, 2004) and has worked as a teacher, SENCO and senior manager in both special and mainstream schools. She is an educational counsellor, holds an MA in Therapeutic Interventions in Primary Schools and led the South East Region SEN Therapeutic Storywriting project. The training is a progressive programme and participants need to make a commitment to attend all three days. The aim of the course is to support special needs teachers and other professionals set up Therapeutic Storywriting groups. These groups should consist of 4-6 children and run weekly for 8-10 weeks with each session lasting about 1hour. Cost: £295.00 for 3 days (includes lunch & copy of Therapeutic Storywriting) Monday 3rd July 2006 from 8.00 to 10.00 pm The Emotionally Healthy Adolescent By Dr John Coleman The notion of an emotionally healthy adolescent is a challenging one. In this presentation John will explore how recent work on emotional health and well-being can be applied to the adolescent stage of development. He will address the overlap between our ideas about mental health and those that concern well-being, and he will look closely at recent research suggesting that the mental health of young people has deteriorated over the last twenty years. He will consider whether the stage of adolescence can be approached from a positive perspective, rather than from one that emphasises the obstacles and difficulties that are such a common feature of any discourse on young people. He will look in particular at recent work on resilience and on coping strategies, and he will also briefly review findings from research on mental health promotion during adolescence. He will conclude by asking what more we, as parents and as professional adults, can do to promote emotional health in adolescence. In 1989 John founded the Trust for the Study of Adolescence, an independent research and training organisation based in Brighton, and was Director until he retired in October, 2005. He was the Editor of the Journal of Adolescence from 1984-2000, and has written widely on topics to do with young people. His textbook “The nature of adolescence”, published by Routledge, is now in its third edition, and he is also well known as the author of “Key data on adolescence” the fifth edition of which was published in 2005. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for services to youth justice. This talk should be of interest to parents, health care professionals, social workers, teachers and others working with adults and children. Ticket Price - £10.00 12th Jan, 26th Jan and 9th Feb 2006 Therapeutic Storywriting by Trisha Waters A 3-day training to set up Therapeutic Storywriting Groups with children aged 7-12 years Therapeutic Storywriting supports children with emotional and behavioural difficulties by working with the metaphor in their own story writing. The approach provides a way to process difficult feelings that is not emotionally overwhelming for the child. The 3-day training is suitable for teachers, learning mentors, counsellors and other professionals working with emotionally anxious children in the 7-12 age range. Therapeutic Storywriting groups have been set up in more than 80 schools and evidence-based research has shown that the intervention can lead to a significant improvement in both children’s emotional literacy and their motivation to engage with writing. Monday 23rd January 2006 from 2.00 to 5.00 Logically Illogical: Information and Insight into Autism By Ros Blackburn Ros is an adult with Autism and in this talk she gives an invaluable insight into her world. She uses humour to illustrate graphic examples of her experiences. She will talk about her history from her early diagnosis to the present time and will discuss some of the practices that played their part in her progression. Tuesday 28th February 2006 from 8.00 to 10.00 Thinking About Asperger's Syndrome By Professor Maria Rhode In this talk Professor Maria Rhode will be exploring how a child psychotherapist can contribute to the care and understanding of children with Asperger's Syndrome. Child psychotherapists focus on the individual child's experience rather than on questions of aetiology and she will explore how learning to share their experience helps the children to feel less alone. Maria Rhode will give examples of some Asperger's children's anxieties and the ways in which they protect themselves, and will discuss how these emotional factors interact with bodily and sensory issues. Maria Rhode is Professor of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic/University of East London, and co-convener of the autism workshop there. She is co-editor of Psychotic States in Children (London: Duckworth, 1997) and The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome (London: Karnac, 2004). Thursday 16th March 2006 from 3.00 to 5.00 The use of story to Support Parents and Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties by Trisha Waters The seminar will explore ways in which creative story making can be used to support parents and pupils at risk of school exclusion. For many of these pupils the emotional and behavioural difficulties that are getting in the way of their learning can be viewed as related to attachment difficulties. The presenter will discuss how to set up an emotionally containing environment within the school environment, where parent and child can come together to share the enjoyable experience of story making. Case studies will be used to illustrate how this intervention can positively impact on pupils’ emotional and academic learning. Trisha Waters is senior lecturer in Special Educational Needs at the University of Chichester and author of ‘Therapeutic Storywriting’ (Fulton, 2004). She is a psychosynthesis therapist and has an MA in Therapeutic Interventions in Primary Schools. Trisha has also worked as a SENCO and taught pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties in both mainstream and special schools. Wednesday 22nd March 2006 from 3.00 to 5.00 Brief Therapy with Bereaved Children by Francis Klaus Francis Klaus is Project Leader of the Candle Project, a bereavement service for children and families in South East London, which she developed and has run since 1998. Candle receives over 200 referrals every year, and works in a short term, family focused frame, offering individual and family work as well as group opportunities. Frances will describe the way that Candle is structured, and talk about the value of short-term work in this area. She will illustrate her talk with examples from her clinical practice. Frances came to St Christopher’s Hospice as a Principal Social Worker in 1990, working with patients and families pre-death and in bereavement. Candle works with individual children and families on a short-term basis, and offers 20+ group events a year for children of different ages, parents and carers. The team also run an extensive training programme of workshops, conferences and consultations, and provide the teaching for the Childhood Bereavement Programmes that are validated by Middlesex University to Undergraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate level. Frances is Lead Tutor, and has also coordinated the bereavement input for the all Metropolitan Police Family Liaison Officers since 2000. She has acted as consultant to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for the arrangements for the memorial services for families bereaved in the World Trade Centre and Bali attacks, the South Asian tsunami and the London bombings. She has co-edited a book, ‘ Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children,’ published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. Frances is a qualified and registered social worker, counsellor and integrative psychotherapist. Friday June 9th - ONE DAY CONFERENCE Once Upon a Time: Thinking about early Childhood Development and Services Ticket Price - Conference Fees (to include refreshments and lunch): Individually Funded £95 * Organisation Funded £115 * Concession Rate £75 (limited to 25 places) * List of Speakers – Professor Hilton Davis is Professor of Child Health Psychology at King’s College London and a Consultant Clinical Child Psychologist with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He is based at Guy's Hospital and is the Director of the Centre for Parent and Child Support. He has particularly been concerned with the design of services to prevent psychosocial problems, including abuse and neglect (e.g. European Early Promotion Project and Oxford Home Visiting Project) Louise Emanuel is a Consultant Child Psychotherapist running the Under Fives Service in the Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic. She is course organiser of the PGDip/MA in Infant Mental Health and has a particular interest in work with parents and young children. Professor Colwyn Trevarthen , is Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at The University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1971. He is trained as a biologist, and has published on brain development, infant communication and child learning and emotional health. He is interested in the natural motives for social life and cultural learning, and effects of disorders, such as autism. Dr Amanda Jones is the clinical lead for a Tier 3 Parent-Infant Mental Health Service in North East London. She has completed a doctoral research on the process of parent-infant psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre and is currently doing a further study with Dr Howard Steele into the efficacy of parent-infant work with first-time teenage mothers. Naomi Eisenstadt has a long history of working in the early years field. More recently she has been the Director of the Sure Start, Extended Schools and Families Group in the Department for Education and Skills.In February 06 Naomi took up the newly created post of Secretary of State’s Chief Adviser on Children’s Services at the DfES. In this role she is advising ministers across the full range of Every Child Matters policy, and developing new approaches to the improvement of front line children’s services. ------------ Monday June 19th from 8.00 to 10.00pm The challenge of eating disorders in childhood and adolescence By Professor Bryan Lask There are a range of eating disorders in childhood and adolescence, each of which presents a challenge to the child, family and clinicians alike. This talk offers an overview of how the different disorders present, considers their aetiology, course and outcome and provides a guide to their management. Bryan Lask is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry St George's Hospital, University of London |
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