Beginning to sort it out:
making sense of the variety of mental health referrals
in a comprehensive school

Ruth Seglow

Ruth Seglow will describe a range of responses to children in
difficulties at school.  Amongst these is the crucial importance
of the partnership with teachers in fostering care.

Ruth Seglow is a child and adolescent psychotherapist in an inner London CAMHS team: half her week is spentseeing families, children and adolescents in a clinic setting and the other half in the CAMHS Education service.  Here she works a day a week in a girls' comprehensive school and is also part of a Parenting Support Service which aimsto develop support for secondary school parents throughthe borough's schools.

7pm Annual General Meeting

7.30pm Family Matters for Every Child
Lee Marsden and Kirsty Brant

Lee Marsden and Kirsty Brant discuss multi-disciplinary work with children whose family life involves severe crisis.   Professionals attempt to nurture children s belief in themselves, as thinkers and learners, and to help bring about change in parents, which is a vital part of the process.

Lee Marsden and Kirsty Brant work in the Children's Centre of the Cassel Therapeutic Community. Lee is teacher-in-charge and an educational psychotherapist.   Kirsty is a registered nurse experienced in psychosocial multi-disciplinary work and is involved in developing the Cassel's day programme for parents and children.

Tickets available at the door: £5 CF students, £10 members, £20 non-members

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Lost Mothers
Gloria Condon and Priscilla Worley

Two accounts of educational psychotherapy with children
who have lost their mother through death or through her
preoccupation arising from depression. The emotional demands
which these children bring to the classroom will be considered.

Gloria Condon and Priscilla Worley are educational
psychotherapists and teachers.They have both worked
extensively across the primary age range in London schools.
Gloria is a key stage 2 nurture group teacher and Priscilla is
a behaviour support teacher working primarily with children
at risk of exclusion.

Tickets available at the door: £5 CF students, £15 members, £30 non-members

Holding The Balance

Louise Emanuel

Louise Emanuel will describe her role as a counsellor in a
primary school setting, giving case examples to illustrate how
brief interventions, using a psychodynamic therapeutic approach,
can effect change, supporting staff and children in schools.

Louise Emanuel is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.  She is head of theUnder Fives Service and involved in the training of child psychotherapists.  As a past teacher she has a particular interest in the emotional aspects of learning and thinking.

No Magic Answers!
Anne Murray and Howard Grassow

A subject teacher's experience in an SEBD School
A teacher and the school psychotherapist talk about their work together over the year.

Anne asks: How am I as a teacher to take up the challenge of enabling the children I teach to gain understanding and skills in the area of Maths?  Can I hope to have any success?  What might success look like?  How does the school's development as an organisation impact on my and other's experience?

Anne Murray is an educational psychotherapist and has worked for over 25 years as a teacher, manager, consultant and now teacher once again!  Since Easter 2007, she has worked as a Maths teacher in a SEBD Special School in inner London.

Howard Grassow is a Social Worker and psychotherapist with over 20 years experience working with troubled children and their families in a variety of settings including children on the street, in secure accommodation and in schools.

Tickets available at the door: £5 CF students, £10 members, £20 non-members