Tilman Fürniss, MD, MPhil (Germany)
"Child Protection Systems in Europe"
Danya Glaser, MB (UK)
"Neuro-Biological Effects of Child Maltreatment"
Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, PhD (UK)
"Primary Prevention and Community Intervention"
Marinus Van Ijzendoorn, PhD (Holland)
"The Application of Attachment Theory to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect"
Ulrich Kobbé, PhD, Dipl.-Psych (Germany)
"Abuser or Abused? Encounters with the Unbearable."
The EU Daphne/WHO Funded Project Team
"Young Children in Institutional Care in Europe"
Title of Presentation: "Child Protection Systems in Europe"
Tilman Fürniss is professor of child psychiatry and head of the clinical Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital, Münster. He is Honorary President of the German Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
This presentation will compare different child protection systems in Europe in the context of their culture. It will consider the relative emphasis given to protection or treatment, the existence of specific child protective legislation, the place of mandatory reporting and the implication of these different structures for multi-professional cooperation.
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Title of Presentation: "Neuro-Biological Effects of Child Maltreatment"
Danya Glaser is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, working in Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London. She works clinically, researches, writes and teaches on various aspects of child maltreatment, with a special interest in emotional abuse.
This presentation will describe various mechanisms by which child maltreatment affects the developing brain and the implications of this for the child's future.
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Title of Presentation: "Primary Prevention and Community Intervention"
Dr. Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis is Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology at the University of Birmingham.
Early interventions in poor parenting, delivered using a public health approach to child care and protection within the broader context of child welfare, families and communities, will be considered. Evidence will be reviewed on approaches to targeting families and whether community nurse programmes are effective.
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Title of Presentation: "The Application of Attachment Theory to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect"
Dr. Marinus van Ijzendoorn is professor of child and family studies at Leiden University directing the Leiden Attachment Research Program. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the 2004 Spinoza award which will enable him to work more intensively on the issue of child maltreatment from an attachment perspective.
In this presentation, child maltreatment will be discussed from the perspective of attachment theory. In particular the concept of disorganized attachment, which has been associated with child abuse, will be defined and described in some detail, including possible genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of attachment disorganization.
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Title of Presentation: "Abuser or Abused? Encounters with the Unbearable."
Dr. Ulrich Kobbé is clinical and forensic psychologist / psychotherapist, supervisor, and forensic expert. Since 1999, Chair for Clinical Psychology at the University of Duisburg- Essen; at present habilitating with a forensic postdoctoral thesis. Co-editor of the German reviews “Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy” (http://www.wsfpp-forensik.de) and “Psychology and Social Critics” (http://www.pug-online.de).
Interpreting results of subject-oriented research, this lecture discusses the abuser’s psychodynamics as well as the dialectic of abuser-abused collusions. As differentiation proceeds, even the ostracized offender becomes imaginable as a still human subject. There will follow a discussion concerning the ethics of social response and therapeutic commitment.
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Title of Presentation: "Young Children in Institutional Care in Europe"
The EU Daphne/WHO funded project team consists of 12 partners in child care and protection from Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Turkey and the UK. The keynote presentation will be given by several of the partners who are ISPCAN experts.
The number and characteristics of children under 3 years in institutions at risk of harm were surveyed in 33 European countries in 2003. The cost of this care was compared to the cost of surrogate family-based care. In-depth observations on the quality of care, stimulation and promotion of individuality will be presented for the 9 partner countries.
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