Register to attend this webinar to hear our interdisciplinary panel explore how practitioners can respond to the challenges of working therapeutically with children and their families when children have experienced physical or sexual abuse.
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss how practitioners can invite and encourage children’s participation in therapy when a child shows reluctance to engage.
- Outline ways to ensure therapeutic work with a child who has experienced trauma is purposeful and useful.
- Outline how to work with children and their families where the child has been positioned as being in some way complicit in the abuse.
- Identify how practitioners can work with children and their families where the child is experiencing anger, hurt and mistrust due to the abuse they have experienced.
Our interdisciplinary panel:
- Kate Headley, Speech Pathologist, NSW
- Dan Fighera, Senior Counsellor, Trauma Services RASA, SA
- Cassandra Tinning, Director, Youth at Risk Project, ACT Health Directorate, ACT
- Facilitator: Chris Dolman, Senior Practice Development Officer, Emerging Minds, SA
Before the webinar:
This webinar is co-produced by MHPN and Emerging Minds for the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health (NWCCMH) project.
The NWCCMH is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.