Training: 3rd Annual Seminar - 10 March 2012

A two part seminar with David Trickey

Part 1: Understanding Traumatic Bereavement
Part 2: What We Know Helps Bereaved Children & Young People

Cruse Bereavement Care Buckinghamshire is proud to announce its third annual seminar on Saturday March 10, 2012 in the John Hampden Grammar School auditorium, Marlow Hill, High Wycombe HP11 1SZ (very close to Exit 4 of the M40) from 10am to 4pm.

Following the successful seminars by Sir Richard Bowlby (2009) and Colin Murray Parkes (2010), David Trickey will host a two part seminar on Understanding Traumatic Bereavement and What we know helps bereaved children and young people. David comes to us with the reputation of an exceptional speaker on both these topics. He will be bringing handouts to accompany his presentation.

Reserving Your Place

Places, to include lunch and refreshments are offered for a donation of £70 (suggested). All proceeds will support the work of Cruse across Buckinghamshire.

As we anticipate high demand for this event, please download, complete and return the following Reservation Form without delay.

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Programme for the Seminar

The seminar is divided into two parts.

Part 1: Understanding Traumatic Bereavement

In the morning, David Trickey will talk about Understanding Traumatic Bereavement. He will discuss the way in which the traumatic nature of some deaths seems to obstruct some people’s ability to grieve; every time they try to recall the person’s life, they are automatically confronted with images of the way in which they died. It is therefore necessary for them to “process” the memory of the event of the death, so that they can access memories of the person’s life and grieve their loss.

Part 2: What We Know Helps Bereaved Children & Young People

The afternoon talk is entitled What we know helps bereaved children and young people. This talk examines what many child bereavement services offer as part of their intervention, and considers what research tells us about how they can help.

Agenda

10:00 – 10:30	Arrival, registration and coffee
10:30 – 11:45	Understanding Traumatic Bereavement
11:45 – 12:15	Questions
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:45	What We Know Helps Bereaved Children & Young People
2:45– 3:30	Questions

Attendance Certificates will be provided for those who require them.

David Trickey – A Profile

David Trickey is Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Child Bereavement and Trauma Service, based in Luton and Bedfordshire. The service (CHUMS Community Interest Company) offers support to bereaved children and young people from Luton and Bedfordshire, and a national service for traumatic bereavement.

Since 2000 he has specialised in working with traumatised and traumatically bereaved children and adolescents. He worked for 6 years at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in London, and was then Lead Consultant Paediatric Psychologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

David Trickey offers consultation and supervision, presents at conferences and supervises doctoral research. He is an expert advisor to the police and an expert witness for the Court. He is at times consulted immediately following a trauma and asked to inform the crisis response. He was commissioned by the UK Government to evaluate the 7th July Assistance Centre. He is an editor of the Bereavement Care Journal and together with colleagues is about to publish a meta-analysis of risk factors for PTSD in children and young people.

Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone
suffering a bereavement caused by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss.