Refugee Children and Mental Health Masterclass, UK

This event is organised by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the UK.

This full-day training is the equivalent of 6 hours CPD, and is suitable for those that work with, or have an interest in child refugee mental health, both in clinical and non-clinical roles. The Masterclass will offer attendees opportunities for discussion of cases in their own fields.

Learning outcomes and key takeaways:

• Knowledge of current evidence and advances in the field.
• Skills in engaging refugee children and establishing their mental health needs.
• Awareness of different cultural, community and agency perspectives.
• Planning needs-led and integrated interventions.
• Improving care pathways, inter-agency working and service delivery.

The ‘Masterclass Series’

This CPD training day is part of ACAMH’s ‘Masterclass Series’. The ‘Masterclass Series’ delivers advanced, evidence-based training for those working in CYP mental health, to build upon their skills, knowledge and experience. They are interactive sessions, consisting of a series of lectures delivered by world-renowned experts in the field who focus on the latest research, and the implications for best-practice.

About the day

There is increasing service, public and media attention on the complex needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people, including unaccompanied minors. There is also awareness that improving their mental health is relevant to a range of universal, targeted and specialist services. Most agencies and practitioners regularly come across refugee children in their generic role, while some predominantly or exclusively work with this group. Yet, despite this demand for psychosocial support and mental health interventions, there is still relatively limited knowledge on how practice skills can best be adapted to refugee children, which interventions are effective and culturally appropriate, and how agencies can improve mental health outcomes. By attending this masterclass, you will relate your practice experience to other agencies in the field, link to policy and evidence, consider engagement and assessment strategies, develop interventions in relation to your role, and improve joint working.

Who should attend

This day would be beneficial to all those working within child refugee services or those who have a strong interest in the topic of child refugee mental health. The aim of the day is to enable discussions to develop around the different stages of the CAMHS journey for refugees and giving the attendees an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in other sectors.

About the Speaker

Professor Panos Vostanis

Panos is Professor of Child Mental Health at the University of Leicester and Visiting Professor at University College London. Panos has published extensively on the impact of trauma on child mental health, evaluation of interventions and services for traumatized children, including those living in conflict settings. Other research includes school mental health and service evaluation.
Panos is currently involved in several projects with NGOs and academic centres in Asia, Africa and Latin America as part of the World Awareness for Children in Trauma programme (www.wacit.org). He has longstanding clinical experience with vulnerable children, young people and families, i.e. in care, homeless, adopted, refugees, and young offenders.

Programme

9.00 Introductions, overview and video case discussion
9.30  Mapping exercise: Roles, resources and service gaps
10.00 Update on evidence
10.30 Break
11.00 Assessment issues, including case discussion
12.30 Update in interventions
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Planning interventions, including case discussion
15.00 Break
15.30 Service frameworks and improvement, including discussion and exercise
16.30 Conclusions
17.00 Close

Prices:

Platinum member: £147.00
Gold member: £168.00
Silver/Bronze member: £189.00
Publications/Digital member: £74.00*

Non-member: £210.00

*NB there are no tickets left for Publications/Digital Members using a discount voucher