Dr Margot Sunderland’s workshop will focus on how to best support children and young people who are experiencing emotional distress. Her wisdom will be invaluable to anyone who works with children and young people, especially those concerned with the amount of pathologising that is ubiquitous in our culture (CPD Cert 2.5 hours)
Please note that this is likely to be a very popular workshop and there are a limited number of places due to the zoom platform. This workshop will NOT be recorded.
BIO:
Dr Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health London, CEO of The Higher Education Psychotherapy training college, The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education ( academic partner of the University of East London), Honorary Visiting Fellow at the London Metropolitan University, Senior Associate Member of the Royal College of Medicine, and Co-Director of Trauma Informed Schools Uk. Dr Sunderland is also Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years experience of working with children and families.
She is also the author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Her internationally acclaimed book, “The Science of Parenting” (Dorling Kindersley) won First Prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book awards 2007 Popular Medicine section. (Paperback version entitled “What Every Parent Needs to Know”). The book, endorsed by one of the world’s leading affective neuroscientists, Professor Jaak Panksepp, is the result of ten years of research on the long-term effects of adult-child interaction on the developing brain.
Dr Sunderland has two doctorates, one in child psychotherapy, thesis entitled “The Application of Art and Science to the Psychological Treatment of Children
Dr Sunderland was a member of the Early Years Commission, Centre for Social Justice, Westminster and co-author of the cross-party advisory report “The Next Generation” (early years intervention). She is also the founder of the “Helping Where it Hurts’ programme which offers free art therapy to troubled children in Islington Primary schools. She directed the Gulbenkian-funded research study, which in liaison with the University of Cambridge School of Education, measured outcomes for this intervention. Dr Sunderland makes TV and radio appearances as a child and parenting expert. Overall, she is concerned to ensure that parents, teachers and mental health professionals alike, are offered the most up-to-date psychological and brain science research on how children and young people can be enabled to thrive. She is passionate about social change for a kinder, warmer world.