Tue 27th September, 2011
Around 150 people attended the seminar, ‘Domestic Violence: The Effect on Children’s Development and Mental Health,’ organised by Making Research Count at the University of Bedfordshire.
They came from a range of statutory and voluntary sector agencies including 14 different local authorities' social services departments, Bedfordshire Probation Service, South Essex Partnership Trust, NHS Luton, Berkshire Women's Aid, Watford Women's Centre, Beds and Luton Relate and national charity 4 Children.
The speakers were visiting Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury, who are consultants in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Bedfordshire and Luton Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
The co-ordinator for Making Research Count at the University, Jo Neale, said: “The aim of the seminar was to explore the effects of domestic violence on children's mental health from developmental, behavioural, cognitive, systemic and psychoanalytic perspectives.
“It was highly valued by those who attended. Most people noted that the strength of the seminar was the clarity of the presentations.”
Making Research Count is a national collaborative research dissemination network, established by a consortium of ten English universities (including the University of Bedfordshire). For further information, visit www.beds.ac.uk/mrc.
The next seminar at the University will be 'Working with Children and Young People Involved with Gangs: A Critical Analysis of Current Initiatives' on Tuesday, 27 September.
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