Modeling Practitioner-Survivor Partnerships:
The latest in our exciting line up of keynote speakers for the BASPCAN 2018 child protection congress
Clare Shaw, educationalist, writer and expert-by-experience and Sam Warner, consultant clinical psychologist and associate lecturer are an inspiring duo who will be launching our partnership day at the BASPCAN 2018 child protection congress.
Clare, our poet in residence for the congress, is an educationalist and a writer. Her work is explicitly grounded in academic and professional knowledge, and also in her own experiences of self-injury and using mental health services. She is the author of “Otis Doesn’t Scratch (PCCS 2015); co-editor of “Our Encounters with Self-injury” (PCCS 2013); and has published numerous articles and book chapters. Sam, co-convenor of the congress is a chartered and consultant clinical psychologist. She works as an academic, consultant, expert witness, researcher, psychotherapist, public speaker and trainer. Throughout Sam’s career she has focused on helping people make sense of trauma associated with abuse, neglect and loss; and related issues such as attachment difficulties, dissociation, self-harm and suicide. They work closely together delivering training and interventions in relation to mental health, self-harm, suicide, and sexual violence.
Developing practitioner-survivor partnerships:
playing to our strengths and sharing common ground
In their presentation, Clare and Sam will draw on their experiences of working together to construct a model for sustaining an equitable partnership between practitioners and survivors. Their joint work is explicitly informed by structural and post-structural understandings of power. They will demonstrate how this has enabled them to explore the power differential between survivors and professionals that historically has prioritised professional accounts and marginalised survivor wisdom. Their presentation will include personal disclosure, reflexive practice and having a good sense of humour! They will draw on their own value base and coping strategies that have enabled them to challenge their own personal experiences of being located within structures of power.
Thinking Outside the Box: innovative perspectives on protecting children and young people
The BASPCAN tenth international congress will run from 8th-11th April 2018 at the University of Warwick.
The call for abstracts and registration are both now open, so I hope you will join us for this really exciting and inspiring conference.
For more details, to submit an abstract, or to register for the congress, please see our congress website:
Congress 2018