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News & upcoming events
upcoming
CECA Interview courses
Central London, October 2010
Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st October 2010, Central London
Course fee: £350 per person (invoiced before the course starts)
Central London, April 2011 **new dates**
Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th April 2011, Central London
Course fee: £350 per person (invoiced before the course starts)
The CECA training lasts 2days and is held in London. The courses are held
twice yearly, in Spring and Autumn. However, special training sessions
can be held for teams on site if required, including those held outside
the UK. Trainees are required to become familiar with definitions, rating
thresholds and interview techniques for dealing with issues of reporting
style and overcoming biases in recall. Training is through use of video-taped
and transcribed interviews, reference to a rating manual and rating of
case studies. Discussion is held throughout on analysis of the CECA and
its adaptation to different samples and outcome variables. The training
pack consists of the interview questions and rating schedules (printed
copies can be ordered for those who are trained in the measure).
The training is designed for researchers and practitioners in clinical,
forensic and children and family services. Additional consultancy can
be provided after training for rating reliability, analysis and on research
design.
One-day workshops are also available on CECA issues, including specific
topics such as the identification of psychological abuse.
for further information
or to book a place contact:
Natasa
Blagojevic
Tel: 020 7307 8619
Email: Natasa.Blagojevic@rhul.ac.uk
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other news and events
One-day workshop with European Society for Trauma and Stress Studies:
Childhood violent trauma and PTSD in forensic settings:
focus on assessment and treatment
Held on 15t April 2010. European Society for Trauma and Stress Studies (ESTSS) working with Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS - see below) held its first one-day workshop on PTSD in relation to offender populations. The day was hosted by Dr Vittoria Ardino at London Metropolitan University, and Professor Antonia Bifulco (Royal Holloway, University of London and Professor Julia Davidson (Kingston University) also presented at the workshop. The inter-disciplinary approach reflected the forensic psychology, lifespan psychology and criminology approaches respectively. For details on the event and download presentations visit www.cats-rp.org.uk.
SWAN seminars and workshops across South London University network
South West London Academic Network – Interprofessional Institute (SWAN-IPI): A cross-institution series of seminars & workshops, with the aim of generating expert discussion and collaborative working across three Universities. One seminar per term.
CATS
Event:
Child Internet Safety
at the House
of Lords
The
Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies held a succesful event
at the House of Lords to raise awareness about the threat
posed to children by online groomers. This outlined research
on how the Internet as well as other technologies such as
mobile phones, are used to select, groom and prepare young
people for sexual abuse. more
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CATS LAUNCH ******
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A
new Centre for research, practice and training, focussed
on issues of abuse and trauma, has launched
across two universities in London, Royal Holloway University
of London and Kingston University.
The Centre is directed by Prof Bifulco (RHUL – the
Lifespan Research Group) and Prof Davidson (KU). The scope
of the Centre will draw on research expertise, teaching
and knowledge exchange on both sites to further the understanding,
treatment and policy implications of abuse and trauma and
its consequences.
The Centre, welcomed by a wide variety of professionals
involved in abuse and trauma issues, will provide research,
consultancy, media advice, practice training, continuing
professional development, knowledge transfer and learning
in a broad range of abuse related topics across the lifespan,
including both the victim and perpetrator perspective in
areas such as child and family abuse, elder abuse, social
work, bullying and victimisation, internet abuse and internet
safety, forensic science and criminology, government policy
and human rights, and psychological disorders associated
with abuse and trauma. The centre aims to disseminate such
knowledge in the scientific, policy, public and community
domains. In the words of Commander Peter Spindler, of the
Metropolitan Police: “There has never been a more
important time for the academic community to step forward
and provide their perspective on the challenging world of
(child) abuse. Professionals are so immersed in addressing
the symptoms and manifestations of abuse they rarely have
the time or resources to analyse the issues and tailor their
response accordingly. I am convinced CATS will be a valuable
asset to this never-ending fight for the most vulnerable
in society.”
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CECA
One Day Workshops
Central
London
In addition to our long-running
CECA Training Courses, Lifespan is now offering a series of
four 1-day CECA Workshops: Neglect, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse
and Psychological Abuse, with each workshop being self -contained
and attendees able to cover any one of the four, or all of them.
The 1-day CECA workshops have been designed primarily for practitioners
working with children and families; specifically social workers
in family support, Child Safeguarding and Looked After; Psychologists
or psychiatrists working in child, adolescent and adult mental
health and Forensic Services. Each workshop covers implications
for practice of assessment of neglect and/or abuse and its context,
including detailed definitions of abusive experiences and questioning
and rating guidelines. The workshops are presented by Toni Bifulco,
Sue Skrobanski and Geraldine Thomas with Dr Julia Davidson,
expert in criminology and internet abuse from Westminster University
and CATS centre contributing to the sexual abuse workshop.Lifespan
is pleased to say that the first series of CECA workshops, which
took place on various dates in April, May and June, were a success!
The evaluations were all positive and the workshops were attended
by social workers in child protection and adoption, psychologists
and practitioners in education. The level of discussion generated
was very sophisticate, around assessment issues, definitions
of different types of abuse and practice issues around identification
of risk. We appreciated the positive and constructive feedback
received. We plan to run the workshops again. This can also
be commissioned on site by agency teams.
Download
the following pdf documents for further
information on the workshops and to read trainers' biographies.
Neglect
workshop
Physical
Abuse workshop
Sexual
Abuse workshop
Psychological
Abuse workshop
for
further information or to book a place on future workshops please
contact:
Natasa.Blagojevic@rhul.ac.uk
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