‘Assessing and understanding trauma: bridging the gap between research and practice’ is presented by Dr Saul Hillman, Richard Cross, and Katharine Anderson. This webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.
Booking
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About the webinar
The session will provide a bridge between research and clinical contexts of measuring trauma and adverse life experiences in looked-after children populations. The presenters will discuss the rationale for creating a new brief scale of trauma, before outlining its construction and properties, and thereafter, sharing findings of its use within the child in care population, including examining how levels of traumatic life events relate to other background variables. We will look at how the measure is used in practice and provide examples of how this information might be applied. We will end by considering the strengths and challenges of assessing ACES and the implications for both policy and practice.
Five Rivers Child Care is a social enterprise which has been dedicated to supporting children and young people for over 35 years. We aim to help all children “turn their lives around” by providing the best therapeutically informed relational care. To achieve this, we have developed an Attachment & Trauma-Informed Care model which is implemented across our foster, residential, and educational services. We have an active research team and seek to collaborate with other like-minded organisations and universities within the UK and Internationally to continue to improve the lives of children living in care.
Key learning objectives
- To highlight key learning around trauma in children and young people
- To examine how research and clinical practice can be bridged through using assessments.
- To inspire further research around assessing trauma in looked-after populations
- To reflect upon the strengths and challenges of using ACES when working with this population.
About the speakers
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 was worked with Five Rivers Child Care for the last ten years.
Richard Cross is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and child psychotherapist. He has worked with children, young people and adults who have experienced significant adversity since 1991. His primary interest is in developing therapeutic care environments and a particular interest in harnessing knowledge and understanding of trauma, dissociation and attachment. He is Director of Clinical Services at Five Rivers Child Care, JSA Psychotherapy & MCTS, where he leads a team of psychologists and psychotherapists. He is a Fellow and Faculty member of the International Society for Trauma and Dissociation and trains psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals and a Trustee of the Bowlby Centre, London.
Katharine Anderson is a Psychological Practitioner working at Five Rivers Child Care. Within the research aspect of her work, she has contributed to research published on attachment, trauma, assessment measures and conduct disorder. Katharine is also on a training journey to become an Integrative Child Psychotherapist.
Booking
Sign up 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. Delegates will have exclusive access to recordings for 90 days after the event, together with slides. Plus you will get a personalised CPD certificate via email.
- ACAMH Members MUST login to book onto the webinar in order to access this webinar and get a CPD certificate
- Non-members this is a great time to join ACAMH, take a look at what we have to offer, and make the saving on these sessions
FREE for ACAMH Members (Print, Online, Concession, Undergraduate/Postgraduate, LMIC) Join now and save
£5 ACAMH Learn Account holders
£5 Non Members
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’.