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Renowned clinical psychologist, Kim Golding, talks to Theresa Taylor to discuss how we can support developmentally traumatised children and their parents, as well as how support for adopted children has changed in the UK over the years.
Dr. Kim S. Golding CBEKim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children – a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She is on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach in the UK and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.
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Discussion
Fantastic interview. Thank you. We are a birth family 18 months into DDP in the private sector. Our eldest child was diagnosed with dev trauma as a result of unmet infant needs due to undiagnosed medical problems that he carried for first 8 years of life. Can I urge Kim and all practitioners to include birth families in their thinking ACEs can affect any family. Early complex pervasive trauma can happen for any number of reasons. We were left without care locally due to referral pathways being closed to birth families. We were forced to seek support in the private sector. Thank heavens we were able to. 18 months later and stability has returned to our family for the first time in years. DDP has saved us. I know we are not the only birth family DDP could help. Please include birth families in your thinking and when talking to schools and health / social care / SEND commissioners. Thank you.
Discussion
Fantastic interview. Thank you. We are a birth family 18 months into DDP in the private sector. Our eldest child was diagnosed with dev trauma as a result of unmet infant needs due to undiagnosed medical problems that he carried for first 8 years of life. Can I urge Kim and all practitioners to include birth families in their thinking ACEs can affect any family. Early complex pervasive trauma can happen for any number of reasons. We were left without care locally due to referral pathways being closed to birth families. We were forced to seek support in the private sector. Thank heavens we were able to. 18 months later and stability has returned to our family for the first time in years. DDP has saved us. I know we are not the only birth family DDP could help. Please include birth families in your thinking and when talking to schools and health / social care / SEND commissioners. Thank you.