‘Story Stems – a window into a child’s internal world’ is presented by Dr Saul Hillman, and Gabrielle Lees. This webinar is organised by ACAMH’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Special Interest Group.
Booking
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About the webinar
This webinar will cover the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) and its use as an assessment of a child’s attachment and internal representations. The SSAP consists of 13 narrative stems, to which the child provides their own story completions; information is thus gained directly from the child in a non-threatening context. Their verbal and nonverbal responses are then coded and can be benchmarked against children in the same age range. The webinar will outline the development and theoretical context of the assessment, illustrate with case examples of children’s stories, discuss its clinical applications, and review research evidence on its usefulness in high risk populations including adopted children.
Learning outcomes
- To highlight key learning around the internal worlds children in at-risk populations.
- To examine how research and clinical practice can be bridged through using the SSAP.
- To inspire further research around assessing attachment and other internal representations in looked-after populations.
- To reflect upon the implications and applications of the SSAP in clinical settings
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.
Gabrielle Lees is a Child and Adolescent and Parent- Infant Psychotherapist who has worked in the NHS for over 28 years in various roles. This includes CAMHS and Specialist Child Mental Health provision (looked after children, gender services and under 5’s). She has specialised in working with children and young people in the care system and their families and the assessment and treatment of parent-infant relationships and attachment, including treatment for harmful parenting. She has been a national trainer for the Story Stem Assessment Profile at the Anna Freud Centre for 11 years and has taught regularly in Denmark and Estonia. She is currently course Lead for the Post Graduate Perinatal Mental Health Training at the Tavistock Clinic. and project lead for an NHS commissioned pilot in Northamptonshire providing the Circle of Security parenting programme.
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