Parent Child 2008 - Getting it right for families

Thursday 13 and Friday 14 November 2008
Church House Parliament Square London UK

This international flagship conference will look at

  • How do families work?
  • How do we work with families?

The family is at the top of the political agenda and the connection between family wellbeing and social wellbeing is increasingly recognised.
So what do we need to know about families and how to work with them?

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Previous conferences

Parent Child 2008 is organised by the Family and Parenting Institute and follows on from the enormous success of
  • Turning Lives Around (October 2007)
  • Parent Child 2006 (Happy Families?)
  • Working with family relationships (June 2005)
  • Parent Child 2004 (Family Futures)
  • Parent Child 2002 (Adolescence)
  • Parent Child 2000 (Early Years)

Conference structure

themed keynote addresses on both days (including

  • Professor Alan Hayes, Director of Australian Institute for Family Studies,"Results from the longitudinal study of 10,000 Australian children and their families and the social policy context"
  • Patricia M. Crittenden, Ph.D Family Relations Institute Miami USA and Chairperson International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA) and author of 'Raising Parents: Attachment, Parenting, and Child Safety."
  • Professor Susan Golombok, Cambridge University), "All shapes and sizes: Does family structure matter for the psychological wellbeing of the child?"
  • Professor Kathleen Kiernan,Professor of Social Policy and Demography, University of York "Family Settings and Child Well-Being from Birth to Age 5 in the UK"
  • Professor Ann Powers Professor of Social Policy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics
  • Professor Peter Stratton, Professor of Family Therapy, Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre, University of Leeds

a choice of 4 workshops/masterclasses from 16 options including

  • Honor Rhodes Head of Development Family and Parenting Institute 'working with families who trouble us'.
  • Susanna Abse with Leezah Hertzmann, Director/ Couple Psychotherapist and Clinical Lecturer The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships 'Parenting Together' - An intervention for inter-parental conflict
  • Denise Burke Head of Childcare London Development Agency, 'working across the generations '-.a Spanish model'.
  • Alan Cooklin M.B.Ch.B. F.R.C.Psych, Consultant in Family Psychiatry, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, and Hon. Senior lecturer, University College, London Being seen and heard: The needs of children of parents with mental illness
  • John Hills systemic and family psychotherapist Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust. He is vice-Chair of the Association for Family Therapy - Sanity Madness and the Family Revisited: Intervening Collaboratively with Families
  • Professor Hilton Davis Emeritus Professor of Child Health Psychology: Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London/Institute of Psychiatry 'Partnership working with families ..what are the essential characteristics of successful interventions?'
  • Martina Klett Davis (FPI) – Do sibling relationships matter?
  • Dr Sebastian Kraemer FRCP FRCPsych FRCPCH, Honorary Consultant, Tavistock Clinic, London -Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Whittington Hospital 'Getting it right? Working with families where that seems impossible'.
  • Roger Stanbridge Consultant Family Therapist and Frank Burbach Consultant Clinical Psychologist Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust 'Developing family inclusive adult mental health services'

debates on key policy issues

1.Family well being – what's government got to do with it? Carl HonorĂ© Canadian Journailst and author of In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure, which explores how adults have become over-involved in children's lives, Professor Hugh Cunningham, Emeritus Professor of Social History, University of Kent and member of the DCSF assessment panel on the impact of commercialism on childhood

2. Housing, neighbourhoods and family relationships
Prof John Pitts Vauxhall Professor of Socio-legal Studies, University of Bedfordshire

Two 'question time' sessions with key politicians.

Target audience

For the first time one conference will bring together the latest on practical ideas that will help practitioners tackle their everyday essential work to support families in
  • schools
  • children's centres
  • health services
  • adult/child social services
  • housing
  • youth justice
  • commissioners at PCT or local authority level
  • participation officers/ local staff charged with the job of listening to customers.

And also

  • researchers, policy makers and the media.

 

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Last updated: 3rd July 2008 at 02:07:01