Dear Colleague

Welcome to The Centre for Child Mental Health.
We are delighted to present our programme of events for 2009.

How Can The Centre for Child Mental Health Help You?
At the Centre for Child Mental Health we totally understand the challenging task of enabling troubled children and young people to thrive. It can seem like an uphill struggle when you’re repeatedly met with defensiveness, anger, mistrust or challenging behaviour. Our aim is to support you with vital skills, underpinned by the latest research from psychology and brain science. Through our conferences, training days and courses you will acquire tools, techniques and effective ways of relating to children and young people, in conjunction with fascinating theory, so you feel more empowered, supported and confident in your important work. What is more fulfilling than to know you have made a real difference to the life of a child or young person who is heading for unfulfilled potential, harm to self or others, criminality or the endless intergenerational transmission of misery?

Our training days, conferences and accredited vocational courses are staffed by the most eminent trainers from here and abroad, carefully chosen for their ability to enable participants to feel deeply enthused and involved. The trainers have published widely, many with ground-breaking books. Many have acted as consultants to key organisations and governing bodies, e.g. The Department of Health, The Department of Education and Science, The National Children’s Bureau, The Centre for Social Justice Westminster, The Sex Education Forum and many other governmental, education and social service departments in the UK and abroad.

Our Courses
One day trainings on arts based ways of working with children’s feelings

• Certificate in the Emotional Needs of the Child: Assessment and Action Planning
• Certificate in Counselling Skills with Children Using the Arts
• Diploma in Child Counselling (leading to BACP registration)
• Certificate in Emotional Literacy for Children
• Masters Degree in Emotional Literacy for Children
• Masters Degree in Integrative Child Psychotherapy (leading to UKCP registration)

All our courses are designed with a key focus on the requirements of Every Child Matters and the Common Assessment Framework.

Many of our courses are run in conjunction with our sister organisation
The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (validated by London Metropolitan University).

We look forward very much to your participation in 2009’s events and, as ever, we welcome your thoughts and suggestions.

Dr Margot Sunderland
Director of Education and Training