Training Conferences

Consultation can also be very effective as a way of helping and supporting specific groups and networks. For instance, foster carers with very challenging children, and the cgild’s professional network including school, home, social workers, CAFCASS officers etc.

Consultation

Ongoing consultation is one of the best models of training as it allows the development of a protected space to thinking, to develop sound frameworks for thinking about casework problems or specific problem issues at the level of patient/client, agency, network or service.

A dedicated consultant may be engaged with a team following a client tragedy or an agency disaster or may be helpful in supporting and developing teamwork in contexts that have recurring human problems (road traffic accidents for emergency service workers; infant deaths and illness in Special Care Baby Units; post traumatic stress disorder in conflict workers e.g. prisons).

We hold regular Training Seminars at the Ashwood Centre:

Every other month for GPs (topics have included management of self-harming; trauma; family therapy for behavioural issues; stress and burn-out)Quarterly Medico-Legal Forum with Expert Witness specialists and LawyersQuarterly Contact and Mediation Forum for Lawyers, clinicians and CAFCASS officers and managers.School visits for Inset day training with Psychologists and therapists, including skills and theoretical approach to behavioural difficulties in the classroom.

The Ashwood Practice, part of the Baker Duncan Partnership, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey Specialist Private Assessment and Treatment Services across the whole spectrum of psychological/mental health conditions and childhood developmental problems, including Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and OCD. We offer a continuing service throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The clinical problems we commonly encounter include depression, deliberate self-harm, anxiety - in all its forms, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and adjustments reactions in individuals and families in relation to traumatic seperation (including bereavement of parents, children and siblings) or other family crises such as divorce and domestic/family violence.

We have developed specialist expertise in assisting families who have adopted children with attachment problems and we have also set up a therapeutic re-parenting scheme to support foster-carers who are struggling with very challenging behaviour in younger children.