On-Demand virtual training
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Researched and produced in collaboration with Paul Scates Peer Specialist, Campaigner and Survivor of Sexual Abuse, this on-demand conference focuses on the important issue of sexual abuse and mental health and reducing the impact of abuse on mental health.
“We will make sure survivors of sexual violence are given mental health support when they need it.”
“Recent measures announced to tackle coronavirus (COVID-19), such as the order to stay at home, can cause anxiety and other mental health challenges for those who have experienced sexual violence and abuse, and worsen the suffering of those who are currently experiencing or feel at risk of sexual violence and abuse.”
“Institutional kindness, like that given to Covid-19 victims by our committed doctors and nurses, needs to be replicated in the way police, prosecutors and the courts treat victims of crime, especially the large numbers of victims who suffer from mental illness.”
National updates, survivor perspectives, expert sessions and practical case studies will cover:
- The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on sexual abuse and mental health
- Meeting the national commitment to ensure victims of sexual abuse receive a lifetime of effective mental health care
- Helping reduce the impact of abuse on later mental health problems
- Reflecting on the lived experience from a survivor perspective
- What does a gold standard sexual abuse pathway look like?
- Delivering a recovery focused approach for survivors
- Understand how to reduce the impact of abuse on later mental health problems
- Victim support, early mental health support, and the police role
- The role of Sexual Abuse Referral Centres in Mental Health
- Delivering therapeutic and practical support to adults who were abused as children and have turned to drugs, alcohol and other ways of self-harming as a consequence of that trauma
- Relieving the stress of families, carers and parents of children who have been affected by sexual abuse
- Delivering effective Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for children, young people and their families who have been affected by sexual abuse
- Working with complex trauma and dissociative disorders
