Glimpses within the Therapy Room; Child Parent Psychotherapy with Traumatised Young Children
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Conference Centre Room 2
| Tuesday, March 29, 2022 |
| 1:51 PM - 2:11 PM |
Overview
Ms Cheryl Lowe, CAMHS Northern Adelaide
Speaker
Ms Cheryl Lowe
Senior Social Worker
CAMHS Northern Adelaide
Glimpses within the Therapy Room; Child Parent Psychotherapy with Traumatised Young Children
Abstract
A large amount of research has been completed on the impact of abuse and neglect on children’s brain development, attachment and behaviour (Malinosky-Rummell & Hansen, 1993, pp. 68-79, Margolin & Gordis, 2000; pp. 445-479, Perry 2002, pp 79-100, van der Kolk 2005, pp. 401-408. Although there are individual differences in how children recover from trauma, for those children severely or chronically traumatised, the research has consistently shown longer term implications for the child’s mental health if left untreated (Dolby 1996, pp 13-24; Malinosky-Rummell, & Hansen, 1993, pp. 68-79). Lieberman and Van Horn have created a psychotherapy relational model for young children who have experienced trauma and authored two books titled Don’t hit my Mommy (2015) and Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children (2009). Their work has been expanded into an 18 month intensive training manualised model called Child Parent Psychotherapy which is now taught around the world by Tulane University. Child Parent Psychotherapy has substantial empirical evidence of efficacy in decreasing symptoms of traumatic stress and restoring young children's normative developmental trajectories. This training session will provide the viewer with an overview of Child Parent Psychotherapy as an intervention framework and glimpses into the therapy room through short video vignettes of Child Parent Psychotherapy in action.
3 x Key Learnings:
• Understand the overview of the Child Parent Psychotherapy model
• View examples of clinical work through video recordings
• Gain an understanding of how treatment of childhood trauma can prevent longer term mental health difficulties
3 x Key Learnings:
• Understand the overview of the Child Parent Psychotherapy model
• View examples of clinical work through video recordings
• Gain an understanding of how treatment of childhood trauma can prevent longer term mental health difficulties
Biography
Cheryl Lowe is the Senior Social Worker based in the Northern Region of Adelaide, South Australia. Cheryl has been a social worker for 15 years, and has worked across both non-government and government services. The majority of Cheryl’s career has been within Child Adolescent Mental Health Services specialising in working with children under the guardianship of the minister who have experienced severe child abuse and neglect and working with infants in roles at Helen Mayo House; an inpatient unit for mother’s with severe mental illness and their babies and the Perinatal Infant Mental Health team at Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Cheryl has focused her career on assisting infants and children recover from the impact of child abuse and trauma. Cheryl has a Masters in Social Science Counselling Studies, Graduate Diploma in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health through the Institute of Psychiatry NSW and has completed an 18 month training course in Child Parent Psychotherapy through Tulane University USA.
