“COMING IN EARLY: TREATING AND PREVENTING
LONG-TERM DAMAGE, ABUSE AND NEGLECT IN CHILDREN”

The Advanced Knowledge and Skill-Based Training Institute will be a full day pre-Conference event taking place Sunday, 18 November. The Institute will serve as a tool for professionals attending the conference to gain more intensive, advanced and focused training.Tilman Furniss, MD, MPHIL from Germany will serve as the facilitator.

Please note that the Advanced Knowledge and Skill Based Training Institute will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel.

This workshop provides the mental health practitioner with a framework for good interviewing. The areas of agreement among experts in European countries conducting child (sexual) abuse evaluations will furthermore be presented.

Presenters:
Prof. dr. Francien Lamers-Winkelman
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
& Children’ s and Youth Trauma Center Haarlem

Drs. Suzanne Terhorst
Children’s and Youth Trauma Center Haarlem
& Forensic Evaluation Institute Haarlem

TRAINER: Prof. Francien Lamers-Winkelman, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Francien Lamers-Winkelman is a psychologist and a fully licensed child psychomotor therapist. She is a full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The topic of her research and teaching is the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

She holds a masters degree in Human Movement Sciences, a masters degree in Pedagogics and a Ph.D. in Psychology. She is the co-ordinator of the first Children’s and Youth Trauma Center in the Netherlands (Haarlem). Her scientific work is on the assessment and treatment of child sexual abuse, children as witnesses, and children as witnesses and victims of interparental violence. She published a book (in Dutch) and many articles (in several languages) on child sexual abuse and other trauma’s in young children. Francien Lamers-Winkelman has given many lectures and workshops in The Netherlands and many other countries. She has been a guest lecturer on several European Universities.

TRAINER: Dr. Arnon Bentovim, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, London Child and Family Consultation Service and formerly The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, U.K.
Information coming soon.

TRAINER: Prof. Kari Killen, Norwegian Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Information coming soon.

The tasks, functions and importance of the overall treatment system of the young sexual abuser, the group of sexually abusers, the families of the young abusers, the group of the families of young abusers and the involvement of the legal and child protective system as part of the treatment system will be outlined in detail as crucial context for the treatment as well the understanding of underlying issues of emotional loneliness, emotional and attachment disorders in young abusers as well as for the importance of the success of the treatment process. All aspects will be illustrated by clinical material from the assessment, the treatment and the creation of the complex legal and therapeutic treatment system to deal with young sexual abusers. Finally, the crucial importance of the knowledge of the process of sexually abusing by adolescent sex offenders for the understanding and treatment of child and adolescent victims of child sexual abuse will be delineated and discussed.

TRAINER: Prof. Tilman Fürniss, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, University of Muenster, Founding President of the German Society of Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (GESPCAN), Muenster, Germany
Tilman Furniss has been involved in child abuse and neglect work for 30 years in the Netherlands, U.K. and Germany. He started in paediatrics and worked in the Dutch Confidential Doctor system against child abuse and neglect. Today, he is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Munster in Germany and has been on ISPCAN Council since 1996, working as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, a part of the Publication, Research and Information Committee and the Congress and Conference Committee. In addition to his work on Council, he has been involved in the ISPCAN/WHO co-operation to create a world-wide framework for Guidelines for Child Abuse Prevention. He is the founding President of GESPCAN, the German ISPCAN partner, and the founding editor of the German professional journal of GESPCAN. He has also served on the ISPCAN editorial board for “Child Abuse and Neglect” from 1996 to 2004, and has published in many areas of CAN work. In order to integrate victim and abuser work, he is on the founding ESSAY board (European Society for the study of Sexually Abusive Youth). Tilman Furniss, MD, Mphil, FRCPsych Germany

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