This free webinar is open to all, and is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group. The session will be led by Dr. Shelley Gilbert of Grief Encounter, and Dr. Saul Hillman, Senior Research Fellow at Anna Freud and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London.
Grief Encounter is a UK charity founded by Dr. Shelley Gilbert that provides free, professional support services to bereaved children, young people, and their families following the death of someone close
Booking
Sign up to this FREE webinar at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time.
- ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a FREE electronic CPD certificate. Members MUST login to book onto the webinar and get their certificate.
- Non-members can opt to receive an electronic CPD certificate for just £5, select this option at the point of booking. This is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.
About the event
The seminar will provide a bridge between research and clinical contexts of traumatic experiences and loss in bereaved children and young people. The presenters will draw upon their own collaborative research and reflect on findings across 12 individual studies and explore the impact on the grieving process, the clinical meaning and implications. The presentation will be shaped by Hillman & Gilbert’s research work within Grief Encounter, alongside postgraduate Anna Freud/University College London students over the last decade. With their rigorous commitment to the principles of qualitative and quantitative research and its bridge to practice, they have created an enlightening, informative, informed opportunity for learning and sharing.
Learning outcomes
- To highlight key research learning around grief in children and young people
- To encourage active conversation around grief
- To inspire further research around complex and traumatic grief
About the speakers
Dr. Shelley Gilbert MBE has worked as both an Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, for over 25 years. With researched work high on her agenda, she received her Doctorate on young people’s trauma and grief in 2016. She was awarded the Metanoia Institute of Psychotherapy/Middlesex University’s prize for outstanding achievement of bridging research with practice and BACP/Wiley Researcher of the Year 2016/7). Together with Dr. Saul Hillman, she continues to supervise research students through their post-graduate studies. In 2004, she founded Grief Encounter, UK’s leading bereaved child and family not-for-profit to help bereaved children have conversations about traumatic death following the premature death of her own parents. Her Grief Encounter Team developed free and accessible psychotherapeutically based support services for grieving children and their families. Her specialist bereavement resources, such as her award-winning interactive Grief Book for children, and accredited trainings, including the Middlesex University accredited Good Grief Training Programme have been ground-breaking and thought leading. She continues sharing her grief learning as Life President at Grief Encounter and offers consultations, supervises and mentors through her persona as Grief Doctor.
Dr. Saul Hillman is a Senior Research Fellow at Anna Freud and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London. He teaches and supervises across several different postgraduate programmes through both institutions. Within his research role, he primarily researched and led on studies around attachment, mentalization, trauma and grief. Much of his work has been in the field of children who were considered ‘at-risk’ including looked-after, traumatised and bereaved populations. He has a specific interest in bereavement in children and young people, and for over a decade has been involved in a large number of evaluation and research projects at Grief Encounter, a bereavement charity for children, young people and families. He also works as a Research Consultant for a number of other charities and organisations. He is also an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist.
Booking
Sign up to this FREE webinar at this link or on the Book Now button at the top of the screen, and complete the form that follows. You’ll then receive an email confirmation and a link to the webinar, plus we’ll send you a calendar reminder nearer the time.
- ACAMH Members attending will be eligible for a FREE electronic CPD certificate. Members MUST login to book onto the webinar and get their certificate.
- Non-members can opt to receive an electronic CPD certificate for just £5, select this option at the point of booking. This is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer
Don’t forget as a charity any surplus made is reinvested back as we work to our vision of ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, and our mission to ‘Improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 0-25’.