Workshops

Workshop 1

 Attachment-Informed Theory into Practice:

Observe, Play & Nurture

3 September: 13:00 – 16:00

Hanan Derby, Ph.D.

FRCPsych, CCT in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Al Jalila Children’s Hospital, UAE

 Azhar Abu Ali, Ph.D.

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Latifa Hospital- Dubai Health Authority, UAE

Background:

This workshop will illuminate the relevance of the psychological construct of attachment and its applications in in practice.   A historical overview of prominent theories of infant mental health and attachment will be introduced, with a review of typology and current research underpinnings. The latter will also include an empirical and clinical update of neurophysiological risk and protective factors in relation to attachment.

 Objectives: 

The participants will engage in interactive activities to promote knowledge of attachment-informed clinical practice. Also, an additional aim is to provide a more detailed update on the recent best practice guidelines on the assessment and treatments of attachment. At least two models of attachment-informed interventions will be presented in depth. Future directions in attachment and infant mental health will conclude the workshop.

Workshop 2

 Play Therapy Makes a Difference

4 September: 08:30 – 11:30

 Mohamed Nasreldin, MD

Professor of Psychiatry

Director of Adolescent Psychiatry Unit

Faculty of Medicine Cairo University

Background:

This workshop explores why and how play therapy works. It provides an overview of the mechanisms of change underlying play therapy in order to understand the specific forces that cause therapeutic improvement in a child. The therapeutic powers of play refer to the specific targeted aspects within treatment in which play initiates, facilitates, or strengthens the therapeutic effect.

 Objectives: 

By the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

• • • Understand the core therapeutic powers of play.
    • Identify the change agents: specific components that improve a child's attachment formation, self‐expression, emotion regulation, resiliency, self‐esteem, and stress management.
    • Define treatment in terms of cross‐cutting principles of therapeutic change seen within the child's treatment.

Methods:

• • • Vignettes
    • Role play
    • Group discussions

Workshop 3

Working with Children and Families

Where Child Sexual Abuse Is Suspected or Identified

4 September: 13:00 – 18:00

5 September: 09:00 – 17:00

 Jenny Gray OBE, Carol Jolliffe & Stephen Pizzey

(Child and Family Training, UK)

Background:

Children and young people presenting with concerns about child sexual abuse will have also suffered emotional abuse and may have been physically abused and neglected. Children who are responsible for harmful sexual behaviours usually have a history of maltreatment/grown up in violent, dysfunctional households.

The evidence-based, modular Hope for Children and Families Intervention Resources to prevent abusive and neglectful parenting and its associated impact on children’s health and development were developed to address these complexities (Bentovim & Gray, 2016; 2017). Utilizing the Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP) System (Chorpita & Daleiden, 2014), 47 treatment elements were derived from 22 randomized controlled trials (Bentovim & Elliott, 2014).  These were integrated with the Modular Approach to Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Conduct Problems (MATCH-ADTC) (Chorpita & Weisz, 2009) to accommodate the complex and multiple problems of maltreated children and young people, including those who have been sexually abused or who abuse others (Bentovim & Gray (eds.), 2016; 2017). These resources can be used by those working with children and families in different settings, geographical regions and cultural traditions.   

This workshop will present the Hope for Children and Families Approach to address child sexual abuse when children have been harmed sexually and when children and young people are responsible for harmful sexual behaviours.

Objectives: 

By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to:

• • • Elicit the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse and responses to them.
    • Work with parents/caregivers and their children who have been harmed sexually in their family or by a trusted member of the community. 
    • Work with parents/caregivers to support children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours and are responsible for it.

 
Methods:

• • • Didactic methods
    • Experiential learning
    • Video demonstrations

They will illustrate how the modular approach can be used in practice with children and their families when child sexual abuse is suspected or has been identified.

Outcome:

By the end of the workshop, Child and Family Training UK will offer:

    Certificate of Attendance

    Individual license to use the Hope for Children and Families Intervention Guides in your work with children and families.