UKTC Insight Series Webinar: How to Deliver Trauma-Focused Therapies Online and in Schools
Learn how approaches are being adapted to expand access to trauma-focused therapy for children and young people beyond traditional settings.
About this webinar
There is often a misconception that trauma-focused therapies can only be delivered in therapy rooms and standard clinical settings. In a changing world, it isn’t always possible to reach children and young people in these traditional contexts. Practitioners have had to adapt their practice. Pamela Vona and Dr Sarah Miles have been leading figures in finding ways to innovate therapies to ensure that they are true to the evidence-base and are accessible for the young people they work with.
This webinar will look at how these two experts are innovating their clinical work to school-based and online settings. Pamela will be exploring how this is done in American schools, and Dr Sarah will walk us through how PTSD treatments for young people are being effectively delivered remotely. Chaired by Consultant Clinical Psychologist David Trickey, the webinar will include plenty of time for questions and discussion.
If you can’t join live, please note that this webinar will be recorded and shared with registered delegates to access for up to 30 days.
Aims of this webinar
To support practitioners to increase the reach and accessibility of their therapeutic work.
To explore how trauma-focused therapies can be adapted safely and effectively in school-based settings.
To increase understanding of how PTSD treatments for children and young people can be delivered online.
Who is this webinar for?
This webinar is suitable for mental health professionals working with children and young people who may have experienced trauma.
Speakers
Pamela Vona, MPH, MA
Co-Founder of the Center for Safe and Resilient Schools and Workplaces
Dr Sarah Miles
Senior Clinical Psychologist
David Trickey
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council
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Chair – David Trickey
David Trickey is a leading Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council. He has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people, and their families since 2000, particularly following domestic abuse and family homicide. He continues to focus on direct clinical work, as well as the training, supervision and support of others and is the clinical team lead for a specialist service for Children in Care. He presents at conferences and supervises research. He is chartered by the British Psychological Society and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. He was a member of the committee responsible for the 2018 revision of the NICE Guidelines for PTSD. In all of his roles he draws heavily on the research literature to which he has made a modest contribution.
Pamela Vona, MPH, MA
Ms. Pamela Vona is the Co-Founder of the Center for Safe and Resilient Schools and Workplaces. Pamela has worked with public agencies and school districts across the United States to build safe and resilient organizational environments. Pamela served as a lead developer of the Trauma Responsive School Implementation Assessment (TRS-IA)—a psychometrically validated assessment which evaluates schools’ level of trauma-responsiveness. She is also the lead developer of the Trauma Informed Skills for Educators (TISE) curriculum which upon evaluation and shown to increase educators’ trauma knowledge and skills. Most recently, Pamela developed the Trauma Responsive Leadership Course, which equips district and school leaders with the knowledge and core competencies to establish comprehensive trauma-responsive environments. Pamela served on the School Committee Workgroup for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and previously was a member of the NCTSN Policy Task Force. She has published 19 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. Pamela is completing her Doctorate in Leadership and Organizational Change. Her dissertation “Organizational Change Through Trauma-informed Leadership” addresses a critical gap in the field of trauma informed schools.
Dr Sarah Miles
Dr. Sarah Miles, Senior Clinical Psychologist, specialises in working with children and adolescents with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety Disorders and Depression, at the National and Specialist CAMHS Trauma, Anxiety and Depression Clinic at the Maudsley Hospital in South London. She provides teaching on various mental health training programmes and trains NHS professionals in identifying and working with PTSD, Anxiety and Depression, nationally. Sarah has particular interests in working with responding to mass traumas and worked as part of the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service which responded to the fire of 2017. Furthermore, she has special interests in developing and delivering more accessible treatments of PTSD for children, young people, and families and works on the Online PTSD Treatment for Young People and Carers (OPTYC) Trial.
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