10.00-10,05 Introduction

10:05 – 10:45 Orit Badouk Epstein

10:45 – 11:05 Q&A

11:05 – 11:15 comfort break

11:15 – 11:50 Richard Cross

11:50 – 12:00 Q&A

12:00 – 12:30 Large group reflections and close

Orit Badouk Epstein Presentation 10:00 – 10:40

‘The role fear plays in the severely traumatised client’

Orit will be discussing the core principles of Attachment Theory. In particular she will focus on Disorganised attachment and the way in which fear manifests itself in clients who have suffered childhood neglect and abuse.

Richard Cross Presentation 11:15 - 11:55

‘Creating resiliency for professionals when working with traumatised children: harnessing understanding of attachment and trauma within organisational, group and individual contexts’

Richard will share his experience of developing and managing therapeutic organisations working with traumatised children and young people. He will explore approaches to avoid systems becoming ‘trauma organised’ and developing resiliency, which is one of the components in an approach called Attachment & Trauma Informed Care.

Orit Badouk Epstein

Is a UKCP registered attachment-based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor, and a training therapist, a teacher, a writer and an editor. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she teaches Attachment theory, is the Editor of the journal “Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis”. Orit was the co-editor of ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter for 10 years. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly writes and presents papers and book chapters on these topics.

Richard Cross

He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and child psychotherapist. He has worked with children and young people since 1991 when he became interested in trauma, dissociation and attachment. This led him to bring in collaboration with Dr Sandra Bloom a trauma-informed approach called ‘The Sanctuary Model’ to the UK in 2004. He is Head of Assessment & Therapy at Five Rivers Child Care where he leads research and development on collaboration with AFC/UCL and is embedding on an approach called ATIC (Attachment & Trauma Informed Care).