Mental health practitioners working with children in care, on the edge of care or post-care (SGO & Adoption) often face complex decisions on how to best meet children’s emotional needs.
About the roundtable
Mental health practitioners working with children in care, on the edge of care or post-care (SGO & Adoption) often face complex decisions on how to best meet children’s emotional needs.
Children with a social worker have experienced a significantly higher number of adverse and traumatic experiences than those without social care.
They are at significantly higher risk of developing mental health difficulties such as PTSD or C-PTSD. There are evidence-based interventions for many such difficulties.
However the evidence has limits and children continue to live in complex situations.
How the sessions will work:
- Short introduction
- Small group discussions with other practitioners
- Sharing insights with the wider group
We will bring together the ideas and experiences shared to produce a short report capturing practitioner perspectives on the realities of working with children who have a social worker.
Who is this aimed at:
Mental health practitioners & therapists working with children who have a social worker, including those working in:
- CAMHS
- Local authority services
- Third sector organisations
- Specialist trauma services
Further information:
We warmly invite practitioners to share their experience and insights.
Your knowledge of what happens in real-world practice is essential for helping us understand how best to support work with children who have a social worker.
Your insights will help us better understand the realities of working with children who have a social worker, and what support and guidance practitioners may need.
We are particularly interested in the decisions practitioners make when evidence-based interventions are difficult to deliver in practice.