About this Event
Content Summary
This training will present an overview of the research base for the impact of domestic abuse and coercive control on a child’s physiological, psychological, cognitive and emotional development.
Christina will also present therapeutic approaches to support children and their carers to help the child to move towards recovery and to build a sense of safety and resilience from this highly traumatising experience.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of completing this training, participants can learn about:
- What research into a child’s exposure to domestic abuse and coercive control tells us about its impact on a child’s physiological, cognitive, psychological and emotional development and behaviour
- The impact on a child when witnessing a parent being abused
- How abuse and coercive control can also be the child’s experience of the abusing parent and how this negatively affects the child
- How children and adolescents may carry self-blame for not protecting the victim parent
- For children who are looked after, how to help the child understand why they are in care as a result of protection from exposure to domestic abuse
- How professionals can support children who have been exposed to domestic violence psychologically and emotionally
- How to help children who are re-enacting the abuse and violence they have been exposed to
- The importance of helping children affected by domestic violence to develop a recognition of their strengths and positive coping resources
Self Care Notice:
Please note this training will be exploring topics that may be deeply personal for delegates, depending on their lived experience. There will be a break included on the day and one to one support will be available if needed, but please do reflect on whether you feel able to attend – your safety and well being is of paramount importance.
About Christina:
RN, BSc Psychology, Dip in Family Therapy, MA Child Psychotherapy, Dip Clinical Supervision.
Over the past 16 years, Christina has worked as a psychotherapist with children, adolescents, birth parents, foster carers and adoptive parents. Her experience includes the development of a multidisciplinary clinical service for families experiencing trauma and attachment problems who were reluctant to engage with main-stream social care and mental health services. From 2015-2017 Christina provided trauma consultancy to the clinical team developing a children’s service within the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in the UK.
She also delivers training on child development, trauma and attachment both within the NHS and other education and social care systems across the UK and Ireland. Her special interest is in early childhood development and the impact of trauma on a child’s developing capacities, functioning and behaviour. From her experience working with children who have endured developmental trauma characterised by neglect and abuse, she has found it necessary to use a comprehensive integrated approach in order to address the multiple complexities which such children present with.
Christina returned to live in Ireland in 2016 and currently works as a Developmental Trauma and Attachment specialist providing training, assessment and clinical interventions on behalf of Tusla Child and Family Agency, and in private practice with birth and adoptive families. Christina is also a trained clinical supervisor and has over 10 years experience providing supervision to qualified psychotherapists, counsellors and allied professionals.
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- Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
- Sensitivity to complex issues being discussed
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WAYS TO PAY
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Event Venue
Online
GBP 60.29
