Category: Children

Working with Children and Young People: An Ethical and Legal Minefield? – Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins

There has been dramatic growth of counselling services for children and young people in the last decade, but counsellors continue to anxious about how best to provide therapy and also deal with safeguarding issues, self-harm, parental consent and other major challenges to confidentiality.

This session will explore some of these issues in the context of the author’s model of children’s rights, which has been specifically designed to support counselling with children and young people in England and Wales.

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Supervising Counsellors Working with Children and Young People – Sue Lewis

Sue Lewis

Sue has extensive experience supervising counsellors working with children and young people. She is passionate about the need for quality supervision in this field. Although rewarding, it is particularly challenging: supporting practitioners to work effectively with their clients whilst staying mindful of safeguarding responsibilities and managing relationships with parents, schools, and other agencies.

Sue is looking forward to sharing her own experience of this work and invites you to share your experience, fears, and hopes in offering and receiving this kind of supervision.

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How to Identify Grooming – Marilyn Hawes

Marilyn Hawes

In this event Marilyn will offer her demonstration of Grooming. Using a teddy bear she will present the abusers behaviour she saw over many years when her boys were abused by their head teacher. The sad part is she did not understand what she was watching and consequently could not protect her boys.

Being able to identify Grooming is a vital skill to identify and prevent the abuse of children, Marilyn will talk about how she has developed her skills and what she has learned educating professionals and parent groups.

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The Internet and Me: Self-help and Facilitated Support Online – Denise Meyer

Denise Meyer

Dr Denise Meyer developed the award-winning Students Against Depression website, and has managed its growth as a trusted resource for students and those helping them (as well as many non students) over its 10 year history.

In this interview Denise will talk about how the project has responded to evidence about how to make self-help more helpful, and about recent developments to make it easier for therapists and other support workers to use the site for structured guided self-help.

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Putting Children & Young People in the Driving Seat – Amrita Ahluwalia & Glenn Liddall

Amrita Ahluwalia

We are currently consulting with young people across the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian to ascertain what the issues of the day are for them and how they consider PKH could respond. PKH will then develop and trial a project to support children and young people based on these findings.

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The Many Roles of the School Counsellor: Jack of All Trades and Master of One – Sue Lewis & Emma Yates

Sue Lewis

An exploration of the additional roles and skills needed to run an effective school counselling service.

Working in a school environment makes complex demands on the counsellor. The relationships outside the counselling room are vital to the smooth running (and continued funding) of a school counselling service. Sue and Emma discuss the additional roles and skills required to run an effective service within a school context.

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Counselling MIndEd – Helen Coles

Helen Coles

Helen will talk to us about the Counsellng MindEd project that BACP has developed with the Department of Health(DH) in the UK.

Counselling MindEd is part of a wider funded MindEd project funded by the DH which is a free resource to help anyone working with children and young people to notice what might develop into mental health difficulties. This kind of early intervention is intended to help adults help children and young people to avoid years of needless suffering due to lack of information.

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It’s the Law, Isn’t it? (Interview) – Susan McGinnis

Susan McGinnis

Every time we take on a new referral or leave our notes in a locked filing cabinet in a school there are legal and ethical principles at work.

Working with children and young people can present us with challenges, large and small, that demand thoughtful and rigorous processes of decision-making.

This interview is a follow up discussion to the presentation that Susan delivered at the Working with Children & Young People Conference in January 2014, Susan has very kindly agreed to spend more time with us thinking through this fascinating and challenging topic

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TA with Kids in Care: Being Part of a Therapeutic Community – Clifton Supple

Clifton Supple

Clifton Supple is Clinical Director of Physis Quantum (www.physisgroup.co.uk) recently established in Shropshire to work with children and young people who present a complex range of emotional needs, inappropriate / harmful sexualised behaviours, attachment disorders, abuse reactive behaviours and trauma.

He is intending to discuss the culture that been developed upon an explicit commitment to a whole team approach focused upon the integration of therapeutic care, educational provision and clinical components to maximise the opportunities and outcomes for the young people they support.

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A Person Centred Approach to Counselling Children and Young People: The Benefits, the Challenges, and Some Thoughts on Counsellor Training – Sue Lewis

Sue Lewis

In this presentation Sue intends to set out her thinking on the person centred approach’s contribution to working with children and young people, to explore some of the benefits and challenges of working in this way and to start a conversation about a person centred approach to the development of counsellors of children and young people.

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It’s the Law, Isn’t it? – Susan McGinnis

Susan McGinnis

Every time we take on a new referral or leave our notes in a locked filing cabinet in a school there are legal and ethical principles at work.

Working with children and young people can present us with challenges, large and small, that demand thoughtful and rigorous processes of decision-making.

This presentation aims to address the fear or boredom with which counsellors can view the law and to provide clear, simple concepts to support resolving ethical dilemmas. It will include a discussion of responsibilities, rights, consent, confidentiality and making disclosures.

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A Relational Approach to Dyslexia – Janette Cameron

In this presentation Janette will describe the challenges of having a child in the education system who has dyslexia and her struggle to get the needed resources and understanding. Janette will describe the relational approach that she has developed in this experience and how vital it has been in this journey. She will also describe how this journey has impacted her working life and how her passion has led into campaigning to raise awareness of Dyslexia.

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Touchstone and Talisman: The Living Grid – Mo Felton

Mo Felton

Touchstone and Talisman: The Living Grid, is a synthesis and progression of several TA theories and maps, incorporating concepts from other modalities, into a highly accessible yet complex touchstone for individuals and professionals at all levels of training and development.

In this interview we explored the application of the material in a wider context both personally and professionally for assessment, diagnosis, reflective self supervision and individual and group supervision and ultimately personal development.

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Why Do We Counsel Children and Young People? – Katherine Porter & Carol Targett

Katherine Porter

Katherine and Carol engaged in a dialogue about why they offer counselling to children and young people and why they train others to do the same. The dialogue was inspired by their own discussions around what they could offer to the conference as trainers and practitioners.

The Presentation is concluded by a thought provoking and moving story that led to an audience discussion about the practical and political issues around working with Children & Young People.

This presentation was a reflective end to a conference packed full of learning about working with Children & Young People.

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