Forensic Issues Tavistock Centre, London 21 April 2015 Fee £80 Overview This is the fifth in a new series of evening seminars delivered by Dr Patricia Crittenden at the Tavistock Clinic, regarding issues of family adaptation, including both mental health and child maltreatment. Seminar outline This workshop addresses providing courts with evidence about: 1. Parents’ self‐protective and child‐protective strategies, psychological traumas (that might elicit protective action) and personal needs (to promote children’s well‐being and reduce adults’ maladaptive behaviour 2. Children’s self‐protective strategies and, for older children, psychological traumas 3. The systemic functioning of the family The approaches offered are suitable for child protection, family court (e.g., custody and visitation) and criminal applications. The discussion will address the need for evidence (as opposed to clinical opinion), validated sources of evidence and qualifying experts for the assessment and writing reports. Three levels of reports will be described, each with differing degrees of expertise. Examples of each will be provided during the workshop. Access to downloaded materials for reports will also be provided. Speaker Patricia McKinsey Crittenden, PhD Patricia M. Crittenden has many years experience as an academic and practitioner in the fields of child abuse, attachment theory and family therapy. After her training with Mary Ainsworth, she served on the Faculties of Psychology at the Universities of Virginia and Miami. She has held visiting positions at the Universities of Helsinki and Bologna, as well as the Clark Institute of Psychiatry (Canada), San Diego State University (USA) and Edith Cowan University (Australia). She is well known for having developed the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation and one of the founders of the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA). For more information on this course please visit http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/pceveningseminar