Saturday 3 July 2010 (10.00am-5.15pm, registration 9.30-10.00am)
FROM THE NEUROSCIENCE OF ATTACHMENT TO PRACTICAL INTERVENTIONS THAT WORK: AN AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION
with Dr Margot Sunderland
Cost: £160.00 (includes a complimentary buffet lunch)

This easily accessible audio-visual presentation will provide child professionals with the latest research on the long-term effects of adult-child interaction on the developing brain. It is hoped that delegates will go away inspired and empowered to make positive interventions with troubled children or teenagers from a far stronger knowledge base. The presentation will give particular focus to attachment and attachment disorders. In so doing, Dr Sunderland will address the brain science underpinning the fact that our emotional bonds profoundly influence our social and emotional intelligence, capacity for concern, self-worth and very perception of life.

The childhood and teenage years offer a vital window of opportunity for the development of some wonderful prosocial, anti-anxiety and anti-aggression brain systems. The presentation will address which forms of human interaction can develop these systems in the child’s brain. The presentation will also explore how negative relational experiences in the childhood and teenage years can activate and strengthen the primitive fight/flight/freeze systems in the 280 million year old reptilian part of the child’s brain, often with devastating consequences for self, others and society. The question of reversibility will also be discussed in understanding how to heal both mind and brain.

There will be considerable focus on evidence based interventions for working with insecurely attached children and young people.

Benefits from attending this conference

  • Learn about the latest research on attachment and attachment disorders (psychology and brain science)
  • Learn how specific adult-child relational experiences dramatically affect key structures and the long-term chemical balance in the child’s brain, for better or worse
  • Learn how to recognise the various attachment styles and disorders
  • Take away key tools and techniques for dealing with a child’s or teenager’s acute stress states, the art of discipline, interactive play, and talking about feelings, all based on the latest brain research
  • Learn about repeated relational events which are key for a child or young person to move from being insecure to securely attached
  • Learn about the effective management of your own stress states

Speaker

Dr Margot Sunderland
Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health, London. UKCP Integrative Adult and Child Psychotherapist, Academic Psychologist, Parenting and Child Care expert. Over 20 years experience of working with children and families. Author of 20 books in child mental health translated into 17 languages. BMA award winning author: What Every Parent Needs to Know (Dorling Kindersley) - is the result of over ten years work collating hundreds of scientific research studies on the long-term effects of parent-child interaction on the brain (endorsed by leading neuroscientist, Professor Jaak Panksepp). Senior Lecturer, MA Integrative Child Psychotherapy and MA Education: Emotional Literacy for Children (London Metropolitan University and The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education). Founding Director of ‘Helping Where it Hurts’, a therapy programme for children in Islington Primary Schools.

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