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Events, Conferences & Workshop
12th Annual Conference:
Imprisonment of parents and children: exploring attachment, separation and loss
Date
Friday 25th November 2011
Venue:
Central London Location: London Metropolitan University, Tower Block, Holloway Road London N7 8DB - opposite Holloway Road Tube Station.
Buses: 4, 17, 43, 91, 271.
£60 Standard delegate rate
£35 rate for Students, Retired persons
£50 SRF members
How to Pay
Please send payment by cheque, prior to the event, to: The Administrator, Separation and Reunion Forum, C/o Room 003, 250 York Road, London SW11 3SJ
Cheques to be made payable to ‘The Separation and Reunion Forum’. Please do not send cash.
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Cancellation deadline: 20th November 2011. Fees are not refundable after the deadline date..
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Meeting: SRF Annual General Meeting followed by Seminar:
Saturday, 25 June 2011. Time: 10.00 a.m - 2.00 p.m
‘The Challenge of Caring for Looked After Children’
Do we need to bring back orphanages?
Seminar speakers:
Phil Frampt on – Writer and winner of the 2005 BBC Media Award for Factual Radio a telling piece about living in residential care; Freelance Journalist, broadcaster and research c onsultant.
Robert Tapsfield – CEO of Fostering Network a leading UK charity , a str ong membership of over 55,000 foster carers UK wide and also working with over 180 independent and statutory organisations.
Andrew Carter – Head of Service, Children Looked After & Corporate Parenting, L ond on Borough of Lambeth
Jean Stogdon – Co-founder of Grand Parents Plus, which campaigns for the rights, wellbeing and care of children and extended families (Grandparents) can be valued and understood. Venue: Methodist International Center, 81-103 Euston Street, London, NW1 2EZ |
‘This is a timely book, well written and highlighting an often ignored causal factor from a psychological perspective... The strength of the book lies in the compelling combination of well articulated individual stories with extensive research evidence and theory. Elaine Arnold contributes fresh ideas and perspectives to the field of race and mental health.’
- Hári Sewell, Director of HS Consultancy, UK and author of Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health
Many of those who emigrated from the Caribbean to the UK after World War II left behind partners and children, causing the break-up of families who were often not reunited for several years. In this book, Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues. She demonstrates that the disruption caused by separation from both family and country often had long-term traumatic consequences. The book draws on two studies carried out by the author in 1975 and 2001. In the first, she interviewed mothers who had emigrated without their children, and in the second, children (now adults) who had been left behind and were later reunited with their parents. This insightful book is essential reading for social workers, counsellors, therapists and any other professionals working with people of African Caribbean origins.
Elaine Arnold is Director of The Separation and Reunion Forum, UK, an organization dedicated to highlighting the traumatic effects of broken attachments, separation and loss. Elaine has previously worked as a teacher, lecturer, child care worker, counsellor and psychiatric social worker. Her interest in attachment issues and separation was first sparked in the late 1940s when teaching in a school in a children’s home in Trinidad and Tobago, which housed children for a number of reasons including the emigration of parents.
Past events, seminars & workshops
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in collaboration with London Metropolitan University - Friday 26 November 2010
* Parents and their relationships with institutions: What works to meet the needs of children - Separation and Reunion Forum 10th Annual Conference
in collaboration with London Metropolitan University - Saturday 28 November 2009
* Absent fathers and the emotional and educational impact for children - Separation and Reunion Forum 9th Annual Conference
in partnership with Caspari Foundation - Friday 28 November 2008
* Young people in crisis: The need for secure relationships in the family and in the society - Separation and Reunion Forum 8th Annual Conference - Friday 23 November 2007
* Troubled relationships: causes, consequences, strategies for change - Separation and Reunion Forum 7th Annual Conference - Saturday 25 November 2006
* Internalising the historical past "Issues for separation and moing on" - Separation and Reunion Forum 6th Annual Conference
in collaboration with London Metropolitan University - Friday 25 November 2005
* Attachment perspective of people of mixed heritage - Separation and Reunion Forum 5th Annual Conference
in collaboration with London Metropolitan University - Friday 26 November 2004
* Attachment perspectives on black children cared for outside of their town families, residential, homes, fostering, adoption - Separation and Reunion 4th Annual Conference - Friday 28 November 2003
* Securing a sense of identity: New lands, new homes, new cultures
Separation and Reunion Forum 3rd Annual Conference
in collaboration with Goldsmith University - Saturday 2 November 2002
* Legacies of loss: The black child in focus
Separation and Reunion Forum 2nd Annual Conference
in collaboration with Goldsmith University - Friday 23 November 2001
* Attachment, loss and reunion: The unspoken price of immigration - Separation and Reunion Forum 1st Annual Conference
in collaboration with Goldsmith University - Friday 23 June 2000
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