Saturday 30 October 2010 (10.00am-5.15pm, registration 9.30-10.00am)
CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN DISTRESS. ESSENTIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR PROFESSIONALS, PARENTS AND CARERS
(The day will cover depression, anxiety disorders, problems with anger and rage, attachment disorders, self-harm, eating/sleeping problems, psychosomatic symptoms, bedwetting, soiling, asthma, eczema.)
Cost: £160 (includes a complimentary buffet lunch)

It is vital that children and young people are helped with their physical and emotional problems at the time, so that they don’t grow up with emotional baggage that can plague them for life. The shocking statistics show that there has been a 70 percent rise in anxiety and depressive disorders in young people over the last three years. One in five 15-18 year old girls self-harm. Every 22 minutes a teenager tries to kill themselves. 50,000 children and 170,000 under 18’s in the UK are taking anti-depressants. Furthermore, parents often struggle for far too long with their child’s/teenager’s emotional and physical problems, when effective intervention can quickly and effectively alleviate the suffering for all concerned. Presenters will offer a wealth of ideas to support this vital change process.

Benefits from attending this conference

• Get that essential help with specific children/young people with whom you have been struggling on your own
• Take away a wealth of tools, techniques and relational interventions for addressing emotional and physical problems in children and young people
• Learn how distress hits the body
• Learn how to consider whether a bodily symptom is stress related
• Learn how helping a child/teenager to develop the capacity for stress regulation can have a long term positive effect on their physical and emotional health
• Understand the principles and underlying common causes in psychosomatics and neuroses

Speakers

Dan Hughes
Internationally acclaimed child clinical psychologist. Author: Building the Bonds of Attachment - Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children, Principles of Attachment-Focused Parenting (2009). Decades of ground-breaking and profoundly moving clinical practice with very challenging children and teenagers.

Adah Sachs
Consultant Psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, London. Worked for many years as a psychotherapist in psychiatric hospitals, with adults and adolescents. Co-edited Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Dr Paul Sepping
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Supervisor and Group Analyst. Previously lead Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Poole, Dorset. Has researched the biochemistry of DNA, protein synthesis and severe depression. Publications include: Group Therapy Within the NHS II: Presence Precedes Performance, Narrative and Interpretation and Integrating Object Relations Narratives in Analytic Work with Children and Adolescents.

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