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Day One - Monday 13 November 2006

Plenary session 1

Therapy, happiness and social policy
Professor Lord Richard Layard, Centre for Economic Performance - London School of Economics

Partnership and parenthood contexts
Professor Kathleen Kiernan
Professor of Social Policy and Demography, The University of York

Keynote address
The Right Hon. Beverley Hughes MP, Minister for Children, Young People and Families, Department for Education and Skills

Parallel session A

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A1 Debate - Attachment ... is it a magic bullet? Is attachment security what we should be aiming for?
Yvonne Roberts (Chair), Journalist and Novelist
Dr Helen Barrett (Chair), International Attachment Network, Senior Research Fellow, FPI
Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London, and Chief Executive, the Anna Freud Centre
Dr Helene Guldberg, Managing Editor, spiked-online.com (online Affairs Publication) and Associate Lecturer, Open University
Dr Danya Glaser, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children London

A2 Pathways to solutions with self harming adolescents and their families: a collaborative strengths-based therapy
Matthew Selekman, Couples and Family Therapist, Evanston Illinois USA

A3 Improvisational approaches in therapy with children and families
Jim Wilson, Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist, Foster Care Associates and Gwent Health Care Trust

A4 Beyond words; therapeutic services for families in a community setting with music therapy as an example
Lucy Draper, Head of Parents Centre and Tiffany Hughes, Music Therapist, Coram Family
Building on strengths: developing community cohesion through family support
Dr Valerie Wigfall, Research Officer, Thomas Coram Research Unit
Shafiq Malik, London Borough of Camden

A5 Effective, empathic and empowering support for parents of disabled children
Powerpoint presentation
Lizzie Jenkins, Face 2 Face Network Manager, Scope
Insiders Guide to bringing up children with special needs; implementing a parent support course co-delivered by parents and workers together
Kim Aumann, Director, AMAZE (support for parents with special needs), Dr Angie Hart, Faculty of Health, Brighton

A6 How to set up a child and family mental health service in the private sector, in support of local NHS services
Sarah Craven-Webster, founder member of The Dorset Child and Family Counselling Trust and a family therapist at The Poundbury Family Service

A7 Good Practice when engaging and working with young fathers
Nigel Sherriff, Research Officer, Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA)
Doing research with young people and their families: Hints, tips, and ideas
Debi Roker, Co-Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA)

A8 Mum buries her head in the sand: engaging with hard to engage families
Martin Hughes, Professor of Education, University of Bristol

A9 Strengthening families affected by domestic violence
Ellie Kavner, Consultant Family Therapist, The Tavistock Clinic

A10 The solution focused brief approach to work with children and families
Harvey Ratner, Co-Director, Brief Therapy Practice

A11 The development of parenting programmes for families of deaf children
Pauline Walker, Director National Deaf Children's Society, Northern Ireland

A12 Working with fathers in violent and abusive families
David Bartlett, Services Manager, Fathers Direct

A13 Parent conflict: avoiding the fallout for children and adults- translating research into practice
Penny Mansfield, Director, One plus One
Dr Deirdre Morrod, Practice Development Lead

 

Parallel sessions B

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B1 - Debate - Do new technologies undermine or underpin the family?
Mary Ann Sieghart (Chair), Assistant Editor and Columnist, The Times
Professor Lydia Plowman, Reader in Education, University of Stirling and Co-Manager of Research Project, Interplay: Play Learning and ICT in Pre-School Education
Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communication and Director, UK Children Go Online, London School of Economics
Annie Mullins, Vodafone Group Services
Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Principal, Millwood Hargrave Ltd., and Associate, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford

B2 Pathways to solutions with self harming adolescents and their families: a collaborative strengths-based therapy
Matthew Selekman, Couples and Family Therapist, Evanston, Illinois USA

B3 Parent Participation: improving services for children and families
Helen Dent, Chief Executive, Family Welfare Association. Cathy Ashley, Chief Executive, Family Rights Group

B4 Peer supervision with a reflecting team
Barry Bowen, Systemic Psychotherapist, East Hants Primary Care Trust

B5 The Family Links Nurturing Programme in action (working in partnership with parents and other providers)
Maggie Fisher, Practice Development Facilitator (child protection), Mid Hampshire Primary Care Trust, Judith Lee, Educational Psychologist, Children's Services Department Hampshire County Council

B6 The role of teenage parents as peer educators within the context of sex & relationships education
Hilary Pannack, Chief Executive, Straight Talking
The X factor- sex and relationships support for families
Paul Casey, Project Manager, Speakeasy, FPA

B7 Finding out what works; A research perspective on methods of evaluation
Dr Janet Boddy, Research Officer,
Dr Valerie Wigfall Research Officer.
Professor Marjorie Smith, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education

B8 The use of an age-paced parenting newsletter to improve parents' understanding of infant emotional development
Tony Waterston, Consultant Paediatrician, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust

B9 Happier Foster Families! Reaching the hard to reach
Shirley Stephenson, Programme Director, Family Links Programme, North of England

B10 Somali families in Bristol: supporting parents and strengthening families by addressing community dislocation and disadvantage
Dr Owen Gill, Anti Poverty Coordinator, Barnados SW. A community presentation involving presenters from the Bristol Somali Community

B11 Attachment theory and parenting: Cane, crutch or climbing frame?
Dr Helen Barrett Ph D, Senior Research Fellow, The National Family and Parenting Institute

B12 What do Children's Trusts have to offer parents and families?
David Hawker, Director of Children's Services Children and Young People's Trust, Brighton & Hove City Council

B13 Is media coverage of parenting creating less emotionally healthy families?
Eileen Hayes, Parenting Advisor, NSPCC

B14 'Parenting by Connection' the theory and practice of parent listening partnerships.
This workshop will involve participants in a parent support group format as experienced by parents.
Olivia Vincenti Camden Children's Fund Programme Manager, Ginnie Herbert Parenting Programmes Coordinator, Roses Hill-Littlemore Sure Start, Oxford.

Plenary session 2

 

Child Focused Family Work - an international perspective
Jim Wilson, Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist with Gwent Health Care Trust and Foster Care Associates
Matthew Selekman MSW LCSW (Co-Presenter)
Couples and Family Therapist specializing in adolescents and substance abusers - Evanston, Illinois, USA

Multi -Family Work
Dr Eia Asen
Child and Family Psychiatrist - Marlborough Family Service, London

Keynote address
The Right Hon. David Cameron MP, Leader of the Opposition

Day 2 - Tuesday 14 November 2006

Plenary session 3

Changes in the family during therapy & views of family members about aspects of therapy
Peter Stratton
Professor of Family Therapy, Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, Academic and Research Development (UK) Officer' for Association for Family Therapy

Fostering Kinship Care: outcomes, issues and dilemmas powerpoint
Professor Elaine Farmer
Director, Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare, School Policy Studies, University of Bristol

Keynote address
Louise Casey
Government's Co-ordinator for Respect

Parallel session C

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C1 Debate - Can governments teach young people respect? If not who can?
John Coleman, (chair), Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and Trustee of NFPI
Francis Gilbert, Teacher and author of Yob Nation (pub 2006)
Louise Casey, Government's Co-ordinator for Respect
Bob Ashford, Head of Prevention, Youth Justice Board

C2 How parent support works: a discussion of theory and practice
Dorit Braun, Chief Executive, Parentline Plus.
Hilton Davis, Professor of Child Health Psychology, Kings College London.
Penny Mansfield, Director, One plus One

C3 Working together with families and school for children with social emotional and behavioural difficulties who are at risk of exclusion
Sandy Corlett Services Manager, CHILDREN 1st Family Support Team.
Karen Hancock, Teacher placed in Children 1st Family Support Team (employed by Edinburgh Council Children and Families Dept)

C4 The parenting of young people: Examples of research into practice
Debi Roker, Co-Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA)

C5 Be WARNED you'll be putting the fun back into families!?
Rita Nag, Co-Manager, Centre for Fun & Families, Leicester

C6 New research - what makes families with dependent children successful?
Dr Rajen Prasad, Chief Commissioner, New Zealand Families Commission, NZ

C7 Homeward Bound…this workshop will consider the conflicts and expectations of prisoners and their families on release
Sarah Salmon, Assistant Director, Action for Prisoners' Families

C8 Developing services for fathers in a school setting
Gareth Todd Jones, Headteacher, and Maralyn Evans, Head of Early Years, Community Development and P.S.E.E, Pen Pych Community Primary School, Rhondda Cynon Taff LEA

C9 New research: Parenting and family life in multi-racial Britain
Professor Ravinder Barn, Royal Holloway University of London

C10 When therapists ask clients for help - Multi-problem families and multi-family work
Dr Eia Asen, Child and Family Psychiatrist, Marlborough Family Service
Brenda McHugh, Teacher-in-charge and Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist

C11 Connecting across differences
Rabia Malik, Minority Ethnic Services Development Coordinator, Marlborough Family Service

C12 FWA Newpin - A Model of working with parents with mental health problems and their children
Jacqui Lederer, Development Manager, Family Welfare Organisation
Carolyn Martin Project Manager of FWA Newpin Services Southwark

C13'Living with Parents'; an innovative workshop for 'hard to reach' parents and their teenagers who are offending or who are at risk of offending or engaging in anti-social behaviour
Yvonne Sullivan, Parenting Officer, Dorset Youth Offending Team,
Paul Vittle, Specialist Parenting Sessional Worker.

C14 First results from a national survey of child contact arrangements and contact problems.
Evaluation of One Parent Families' recent initiatives to support and advise lone parents with violent or disabled children
Vicky Peacey, Research and Policy Officer, National Council for One Parent Families

 

Parallel sessions D

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D1 Debate - Differences or Commonalities…what matters most for public policy?
Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Chair, Journalist.
Rabia Malik, Systemic Psychologist, Academic Social Psychologist and Minority Ethnic Development Co-ordinator, Marlborough Family Service
Gerard Lemos, Partner, Lemos &Crane, (Social Researchers)
Gerard Love, Lead Officer for White Underachievement, Educational Adviser for 25 schools, Birmingham Local Education Authority

D2 Changing the system for delivering services for children and families in Telford and Wrekin
Christine Davies CBE, Corporate Director, Children and Young People, Borough of Telford & Wrekin and Chair of the Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership Board (Children's Trusts)

D3 Parenting for prevention- the role of resilience in drug and alcohol prevention
Eva Geser, Co-ordinator, Family and Prevention Programme, Adfam

D4 Training practitioners to work with parents of teenagers: Lessons from practice
Challenges facing staff providing services for black and minority ethnic parents of teenagers
Wook Hamilton, TSA Parenting Fund Project Manager and Cris Hoskins, Principal Training Coordinator, Trust for the Study of Adolescence
Charanjit Kang and Nafisa Mathia, Regional Development Officers, Parenting UK

D5 Working with 'very difficult' families: overcoming obstacles and anxiety to gain positive and lasting change
Honor Rhodes, Head of Business Development, NFPI

D6 Supporting children and parents during the transition to secondary school
Julie Shepherd, Research Officer, Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA)
Early findings from school-parent partnerships project: building effective relationships between parents and schools
Anne Page, Policy Manager, The National Family and Parenting Institute

D7 Supporting families from the inside; family work at HMP Wolds
Sandy Watson, Family Learning Co-ordinator, HMP Wolds

D8 Skilling up the workforce: National Occupational Standards for Work with Parents
Jean Jackson, Director of Quality Standards and Training, Parenting UK

D9 What next? working with families where anything can go wrong, and often already has
Dr Sebastian Kraemer, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Whittington Hospital, London

D10 Making the exotic familiar: taking family therapy into schools
Dr Sharon Bond, Systemic Psychotherapist

D11 Helping parents achieve better outcomes for children - the role of parenting services
Sue Edwards, Manager Parenting Services, Child Protection and Family Services, Office for Children, Victoria, Australia

D12 Driving up child outcomes: how to make parenting courses more effective
Dr Stephen Scott, Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of the Parenting Research Unit, Kings College London

D13 Cultures of Mixing: Parents from different racial, ethnic and/or faith backgrounds
Dr Chamion Caballero, Research Fellow
Professor Rosalind Edwards, Director: ESRC Research Group, Families and Social Capital, South Bank University

D14 Men's parental involvement post separation- Australian reforms as a case study
Joe Harman, Solicitor, Harman and Co Family Law Solicitors, Emu Plains, NSW, Australia

Plenary session 4

Cultural, gender and socio-economic contexts in therapeutic and community work
Charles Waldegrave
Leads the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit in New Zealand and is a joint founder of 'Just Therapy' approach

Migration, International Children's Rights, Child Abuse and Parenting

Dr Adele Jones
Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of The West Indies in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, responsible for Postgraduate Social Work Studies