CONFERENCE THREE


REACHING UNREACHABLE CHILDREN
Sunday 2nd June 2002

Conference Chair: Brett Kahr
Senior Research Fellow in Psychotherapy at The Winnicott Clinic. Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy at Regents College, London. Author of the award winning biography of Donald Winnicott. Editor of The Legacy of Winnicott. Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health. Director for ten years of The British Institute of Psychohistory on Psychoanalysis and Child Abuse.

‘Reaching Autistic Children
Hanna Alonim (Rosh Pinna, Israel): See previous page.

Reaching out to Children with Asperger’s Syndrome (based on a paper which won the Francis Tustin Memorial Prize in Los Angeles)
Maria Pozzi: Child and Adult Psychotherapist with particular experience in working with children with Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD. Teacher at the Tavistock Clinic, The British Association of Psychotherapy and The London Centre for Psychotherapy. Author of Ritalin for Whom? (Journal of Child Psychotherapy). Psychotherapist for The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Stevenage.

Reaching Out to Children Who Need to Hate
Margot Sunderland: Convenor, The Centre for Child Mental Health, London. Head of the Children and Young People section of the United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling. Registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Child Therapeutic  Supervisor and Trainer. Research area: The neuroscience of human interaction with particular reference to Child Mental Health. Author of the books, Draw on Your Emotions, Using Story Telling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children and Stories for Troubled Children.

Reaching Withdrawn or Depressed Infants
Stella Acquarone: Director of The School of Infant Mental Health. Founder of The Parent Infant Clinic, London. Child Psychotherapist at St Annes Hospital, London. Adolescent & Adult Psychotherapist. Published widely. Lectures around the world on early autism, infant psychotherapy and child development.

Early Humour in Typical Development and in Autism
Dr Vasudevi Reddy: Developmental Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth. Research area: The development of communication and social understanding in typical and atypical development.

Reaching Out to Babies with Peculiar Behaviour in Utero: A Case Study with Video
Romana Negri (Milan, Italy): See previous page.

Early Signs  of Child Psychosis and Thoughts on Intervention
Henry Massie, MD (Berkeley, USA): See previous page.




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