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Child Development Webinar
with international guest speaker Associate Professor Michael Tarren-Sweeney
CHILD WELFARE REFORM THROUGH A DEVELOPMENTAL LENS – A PARADIGM SHIFT IN OUR RESPONSE TO CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED OF
CARE About Associate Professor Michael Tarren-Sweeney Michael Tarren-Sweeney is Associate Professor of Child and Family Psychology at Canterbury University in New Zealand, a Conjoint Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Newcastle University (Australia), and Editor of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. His life’s work is focussed on understanding the nature and causes of adverse psychological development and mental ill-health experienced by children and young people in care and adopted from care. Michael proposes developmentally-informed child social policy and legislation Between 1999 and 2010, he conducted the longitudinal Children in Care study in NSW, Australia into the mental health and psychosocial development of children in foster and kinship care. As part of this work, he developed the Assessment Checklist series of instruments to measure a range of mental health difficulties experienced by children and adolescents in care, which are increasingly used as assessment and screening tools in clinical practice. Currently, Michael is both proposing a developmental theory of the psychosocial effects of impermanent care and designing a cross-national, longitudinal study of the development of maltreated children who enter care to identify the differential effects of impermanent versus permanent care. Webinar Overview This webinar is aimed at government senior staff and NGO managers and policy makers. It will focus on how an understanding of child development and developmental harm necessitates new approaches to policy and decision-making processes within the child welfare sector, from child protection responses to permanency planning within OOHC. This webinar will cover: • Understanding of developmental harm in a child protection context • Explore the effects of placement instability on child development • Understanding the role of adoption in achieving permanency • Understanding the role of contact in achieving stability
DATE AND TIME DETAILS RSVP
Wednesday 11th November 2015 12:00pm-1:30pm
The webinar link will be sent via email upon registration.
Please RSVP to [email protected] by Friday 6th November 2015.
This event is part of National Adoption Awareness Week (8th-14th November 2015). More information can be found
on the Adopt Change website.