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In this event, Karen will talk about her experience of working with children & adolescents around the world who have experienced trauma, her current work here in the UK, and how this has informed her research and writing.

About Karen Treisman

 

I am a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the NHS and children’s services for several years. I have also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide.

I have extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, and attachment, and works clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children.

In addition to holding a doctorate in Clinical psychology, I have also undergone a range of specialist trainings including in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Sensory Attachment Intervention, and Theraplay.

I have previously worked in both Milton Keynes’s and Kensington and Chelsea’s Looked after Children (LAC) and fostering services, and within the National Implementation Service for evidence-based interventions for Looked after children, children on the edge of care, and children in custody at the Michael Rutter Centre in the Maudsley Hospital.

I currently work as a Clinical Lead for a court assessment and intensive parenting intervention team for children on the edge of care and in proceedings within Islington.

I am the director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds training and consultancy services (www.safehandsthinkingminds.co.uk).

I am an external consultant, trainer, and assessor to Barnardos Adoption Service, PAC-UK, Grandparents Plus, Hope for families, and the Fostering Network, and also a member of the CoramBAAF health group advisory committee, and a reviewer for the Journal of adoption and fostering.

I regularly present at local, national, and international trauma, parenting, and attachment conferences.

I have a Routledge published book due out in the summer of 2016 entitled "Working with children and adolescents who have experienced relational and developmental trauma".

 

Website: www.safehandsthinkingminds.co.uk
Twitter: @dr_treisman
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