Causes of anger problems, complex PTSD, violent behaviour

CAUSES OF ANGER PROBLEMS, COMPLEX PTSD, VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR

Helping children and young people heal

“Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings. Those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will humiliate. Those whose souls are murdered will murder.” (Alice Miller 1987, psychologist)

From major advances in brain science and psychology, we now know so much about why people grow up to be locked in anger and/or violence and why, in contrast, other people grow up to be kind, emotionally regulated and compassionate to others. So, this presentation is informed by fascinating, eye-opening research including brain scans of impulsive murderers, what witnessing or receiving verbal/physical violence does to the child’s developing brain, the neuroscience of why hurt people hurt people, and the psychology of the compulsion to repeat the cruelty you’ve known and the anti-aggression neurochemicals that lie dormant in the brains of perpetually angry people and how to awaken them.

Most importantly, Dr Sunderland will discuss amazing international programmes that have successfully worked therapeutically with very hurt people who go on to be very violent. As a result, they do not re-offend and move from cruelty to compassion for self and others. Moreover, she will discuss prevention and focus on what schools, services and communities can do to enable hurt-to-violence young people to make that vital shift from being distress excited to distress averse (the latter meaning you are moved to help those in pain).

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Event Type: Online CPD in Child & Adolescent Mental Health

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dr Margot Sunderland

Founding Director Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Higher Education College Academic Partner of the University of East London). Director of Education and Training Centre for Child Mental Health. Director of Innovation and Research Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK). TISUK has delivered training to over 20,000 school and community staff across the UK. They have University of East London and DfE approved trainings. Currently undertaking a random control trial for Home Office and Youth Endowment Foundation, on trauma informed practice in schools.

Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience. Author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Author of the internationally acclaimed book, ‘The Science of Parenting’ (Dorling Kindersley) which won a First Prize in the British Medical Association Book Awards (popular medicine) and endorsed by the world’s leading affective neuroscientist, Professor Jaak Panksepp. The book has also been voted as one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation.