UK Trauma Council Insight Series: Navigating Complexity - Assessment Strategies for Children Following Complex Trauma

About this webinar

If we are truly committed to providing the best possible support for children and young people, the foundation must be a high-quality, comprehensive, and collaborative assessment. Without this, even the most well-evidenced and skilfully delivered intervention risks targeting the wrong issue, potentially causing more harm than good.

For children and young people who have experienced complex trauma, the stakes are even higher. Missteps in assessment can exacerbate distress, this makes an accurate understanding of their needs, and a genuinely collaborative approach.

In this webinar, you will gain clear, practical guidance to navigate the complexities of assessing children and young people who have experienced complex trauma.

We are thrilled to welcome two leading experts in this field, Dr. Jess Richardson and Dr. Sara Northey. Drawing from extensive research and decades of clinical experience, they will share invaluable insights and strategies for conducting effective, trauma-sensitive assessments.

The session will include two concise presentations, followed by an interactive Q&A where you’ll have the chance to ask questions and engage directly with both speakers. This is a must-attend event for any practitioner working with children and young people impacted by trauma.

Aims of this webinar

• To better equip all those supporting children and young people exposed to trauma

• To increase knowledge, skills and confidence in professionals and carers

• To share the latest evidence-based research to inform and support best practice.

Who is this webinar for?

The UKTC Insight Series webinars are aimed at professionals supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma.

Speakers

Dr Jess Richardson

Dr Jess Richardson is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in the Trauma, Anxiety and Depression Clinic of National and Specialist CAMHS at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and has a specialist interest in PTSD. She is accredited with BABCP as a CBT practitioner, supervisor and trainer and also specialises in using MBCT, IPT A and EMDR. She is also the Co-Director of CYP-Psychological Trainings at King’s College London and for the last 12 years in this role has delivered and overseen numerous high-quality training programmes, and has worked nationally with NHSE to expand and develop the competence of the CYP workforce.

Dr Sara Northey

Sara is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has worked in NHS mental health services for 25 years, specialising in trauma, complex trauma, attachment and neurodevelopment. Sara previously worked with children and young people who are fostered and adopted for 15 years, and also for 10 years in a specialist court assessment team, providing expert assessments of children and young people. Since 2017, Sara has worked as clinical lead for children and young people in the NHS Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service in Kensington, West London. Sara is trained in a range of evidence-based approaches for PTSD, including Trauma-Focussed CBT, EMDR, Narrative Exposure Therapy and the Child Accelerated Trauma Technique.