We're running this webinar as an abbreviated version of the full-day training course detailed below, due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Life story work is an effective intervention that helps children and young people recover from abuse, trauma or neglect and make sense of a disrupted upbringing in multiple homes or families.

It offers deep reflective work with a child to help them develop a coherent and accurate story of their lives and the lives of people closest to them, which is key for their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences.

The therapeutic process covers the concepts of attachment, loss, magical thinking, identity and meaning.

Through the process, children and young people often reflect in the most moving and profound ways on what has happened to them, including the effect that significant people in their lives have had on their self-esteem and sense of self, and on what is happening to them.

As a result, they develop a far better sense of who they are, their history and how they want to live their lives.

Key learning

• The value of comprehensive life story work

• The value and various models of information collation

• Communicating with children and their emotions

• Addressing and confronting sensitive and painful issues and turning these to acceptance

• Creating life story books which are useful, valuable and represent the child.

Facilitator

Richard Rose is the Director of Child Trauma Intervention Services Ltd (CTIS) which seeks to engage with children affected by early life trauma and to help them achieve their full potential. Richard undertakes consultancy and training on Life Story Therapy and working with 'hard to reach' children and young people, and develops academic training programmes in the UK and internationally.

Prior to founding CTIS in 2011, Richard worked in the UK in local authority child protection and in the highly regarded residential therapeutic treatment agency SACCS, including four years as the Clinical Practice Director of the Mary Walsh Institute.

Throughout his career, Richard has worked with children and their carers in out of home care and family placements, with the aim of enabling placements to become healthy and nurturing through enhanced understanding and attachment.

Richard is the author of three books including Life Story Therapy: A new therapy for traumatised children – A model for practice (2012) and Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work, which captures the work across the globe, including contributions from Australian Practitioners.

He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University and Honorary Associate at the Institute for Open Adoption Studies, University of Sydney, Australia.

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Refund Policy

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