Children and Bereavement
A Seminar in University of Bath, UK on 7
December 2012 10.00 – 13.00
The
seminar will feature the following:
Dr
Ana Draper, Macmillan Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist
'The
associations between Parental Childhood Bereavement and Delinquent Behaviour'
Dr
Ana Draper is a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist working in the Community
Palliative Care team in Hertfordshire. She has developed and clinical supported
a multi-system therapeutic service working with bereaved families and has been
a consultant for the Childhood Bereavement Network. She has authored
information and therapeutic story books for parents and children as well as
academic papers on therapeutic work in palliative care. She has spoken at the
House of Commons about issues concerning childhood bereavement, as well as
teaching modules and short courses at the Tavistock Mental Health Trust, KCC
foundation and Kings College, London. She has also supported NGO’s in Malawi
and Ecuador by providing training for clinicians working in a palliative setting.
Dr
Rachel Fearnley, CDAS Associate and Teaching Fellow, University of Bath
‘The
Communication Continuum: Research into Practice’
This
seminar presentation explores the importance of communicating with children
when a parent or significant person has a life threatening illness. Parents and
professionals are often mindful of talking to the children about the illness
and possible death of the parent. However, there is growing research that
highlights the importance of talking with children and the negative
consequences when these conversations do not take place. The Communication
Continuum is a model that offers a practical resource when working with
children who are living with a parent (or other significant person) who has a
life threatening illness. Drawing on the work of Glaser and Strauss the model
can provide a practical tool for practitioners when they are assessing the
quality and quantity of information that children have about their parent’s
illness.
Rachel
Fearnley’s PhD explored children’s experiences when a parent is at the end of
life. Rachel is a CDAS associate and teaching fellow at the University of Bath
and an independent researcher / consultant. Rachel is a qualified and
registered social worker.
Dr
Jane McCarthy, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, Open University.
Title
tbc
Jane
is the author of 'Young People's Experiences of Bereavement and Loss: Towards
an Inter-disciplinary Approach', 2006, Open University Press.
Attendance
at all CDAS seminars is free of charge.
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of this and all seminars in the series can be found on our website:
