Service children

1. SCSN
Service Children Support Network
Service Children and Trauma
9.30 – 4.00 on Monday 9th
December 2013 at Missenden Abbey,
Buckinghamshire, HP16 0BD
Children and Young People in Service Families are often faced with on-going difficult
events, many of which are potentially traumatic. This training day will present and
explain the cognitive model of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in children and young
people (Meiser-Stedman 2002). This particular way of thinking will be used to consider
the experiences of Children and Young People in Service Families, and explore what
makes things worse and what might help to make them less so. The day will draw on
research, clinical anecdotes, and the questions and experience of participants. Some of
the difficulties of working within multiple professional systems with children and young
people with complex but often unrecognised difficulties will be considered.
This course is aimed at Education, Welfare, Health and Social Care professionals
working with Service Children and their families.
Cost £125 per person for this one day course, training materials, lunch and
refreshments
To book please email contact@servicechildrensupportnetwork.co.uk (places are
limited so early booking advised)
This course will be led by David Trickey. David has extensive clinical experience and
since 2000 has specialised in working with traumatised and traumatically bereaved
children and young people. He worked for 6 years at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in
Central London as it became part of Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was then Lead
Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary Children’s Hospital and is
now the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist of the Child Bereavement and Trauma
Service (CHUMS), an Approved NHS Provider. Additionally, David supervises doctoral
research relating to trauma and traumatic bereavement; he publishes novel research,
including a meta-analysis of risk factors for PTSD in children and contributes to books.
He was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to evaluate the
Humanitarian Assistance Centre established in response to the London terrorist attacks
on 7th
July 2005.