£15.00
A digital download from this Lunch and Learn session.
Greater attention is now being paid to the adverse effects of vicarious trauma on individual practitioners working with highly vulnerable children and families, particularly within health and social work. Questions have also been raised by senior practitioners within the UK-based AoCPP (Association of Child Protection Professionals) and other professional forums about the possible affects of vicarious trauma on practitioner’s decision-making capacity but also to consider the impact of ongoing work with the family where one family member is the perpetrator of harm. AoCPP therefore decided to obtain a ‘snapshot’ of vicarious trauma and its possible effects amongst UK-based child protection professionals, as the basis for further study.
The session will allow exploration of the above and reflect the results allowing participants to discuss the responses and we wish to discuss limitations and next steps in repeating survey of AoCPP members and gain a wider understanding of other wider multi-disciplinary professionals working with vulnerable children. Session seeks to reflect on insight into the frequency of vicarious trauma from the respondents but gain views of those attending the session to reflect on the possible adverse effects on front line practitioners.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
