Freud’s 4pm Session: Reflective Parenting with Children & Teenagers in mind

Fri Feb 14 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm UTC+00:00

Freud Museum London | London

Freud Museum London
Publisher/HostFreud Museum London
Freud\u2019s 4pm Session: Reflective Parenting with Children & Teenagers in mind
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A talk by Dr Sheila Redfern.
About this Event

We are amid an ever-escalating mental health crisis for young people. Mental health problems for children and young people have increased over the past few years to nearly 1 in 4. What can parents do to help support children and young people when services have limited capacity?

The word ‘mentalizing’ has been in the English language since the 16th century, but the concept in the field of children and families mental health came into use in the mid-1980s when psychoanalytic researchers, together with neuroscientist colleagues, used it to describe the effort that individuals make to understand other people in relation to their thoughts, beliefs, desires, and to generally understand behaviour in terms of the thoughts and feelings that are behind it so they can then give meaning to behaviour. Neuroscience progressed and we realised that parts of the brain were devoted to this function; to understanding mental states. This notion was then applied by the psychoanalytic research group at UCL to discover how parents understand their children. After extensive clinical work and completing her PhD, Dr Sheila Redfern developed a model of parental mentalizing, known as Reflective Parenting, to help parents learn how to mentalize themselves and their children and young people. In this talk, Dr Redfern talks about how this model brings together the theories of attachment, social cognition (including Theory of Mind) and neuroscience to give parents the tools needed for helping them to mentalize themselves (to help them reflect on their own state of mind) and to arrive at the solutions they need to understand their child or teenager. Dr Redfern talks about her latest book, How Do you Hug a Cactus? and discusses how this Reflective Parenting approach has been adapted further to help parents mentalize and connect with their teenager and young adult during this turbulent period of their development.


Speaker

Dr Sheila Redfern

(Head of Family Trauma at the Anna Freud)

Dr Sheila Redfern PhD, is a consultant clinical child and adolescent psychologist and the author of two books: 'Reflective Parenting' and 'How Do You Hug A Cactus?' She has been in practice for over 30 years supporting children, young people, and parents and carers.

She previously worked in the NHS as a consultant in CAMHS services, supporting children, young people and their families with various mental health difficulties. She works within an evidence-based framework of assessment and intervention. She has extensive experience of supporting the mental health needs of children and young people from a wide range of backgrounds and with different abilities.

She has a specialist interest and expertise in working with developmental trauma and how this impacts both children/young people and their parents and carers (including foster care, adoption and special guardianships). Her work includes supporting parents and carers in bringing about a closer connection between them and their child or teenager where they have difficulties in the attachment relationship.

She specialises in working with fostering and adoptive families and has developed a model of mentalization-based parenting, Reflective Parenting, and Reflective Fostering which she delivers as an intervention and trains other professionals and teams to deliver. She also has her own private practice (Redfern Psychology Ltd).


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Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, United Kingdom

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