AdolescenceNow CONFERENCE GUIDE
Today’sAdolescent
UnderstandingandSupporting
WELCOME
We are delighted to welcome all attendees to what we hope will be an interesting, thought-provoking and engaging conference on adolescence.
Our two organisations have worked in partnership for several years, united by a shared belief in providing high-quality, meaningful mental health and wellbeing services that foster young peoples’ potential at this crucial developmental stage. As educators or clinicians, we are constantly seeking to understand and respond to the changing adolescent world, and we hope that the range of topics explored today will resonate with you.
With best wishes, Valentina & Gary
ValentinaLevi
CEO, Brent Centre for Young People
GarySavage Head Master, Westminster School
AGENDA CONFERENCE
Saturday22ndJune9.30am-5:15pm
WestminsterSchool,17ADean'sYard,LondonSW1P3PB
9:00 - 9:30am Registration and morning refreshments
9:30 - 9:50am
9:50 - 10:15am
Welcome address from James Kazi, Under Master and DSL at Westminster School and Valentina Levi, CEO and Senior Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist at Brent Centre for Young People.
Adolescence in a Changing World – The Pupils of Westminster School
What better way to kickstart a conference about adolescence than to hear from young people themselves? Pupils from Westminster School will discuss what it means to be an adolescent in 2024 and beyond, with a specific focus on the unique challenges this generation faces.
10:15 - 11:15am
Dr Anthony Ogoe, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
The process of racialisation and the adolescent mind: undoing the mask of piety
Race is by design a relational process It is an indelible part of the fabric of the modern capital world, and serves a function for defining the normative human At present, institutional life is caught in a moment of seeing race as a problem to solve. Very often mechanisms like EDI lead us to feel perpetually paralysed in the search of a solution When seen this way, race remains an enigmatic morality test. Here, the inflexibility of the adult world is passed on to young people: beliefs which are accepted with unthinking conventional reverencea mask of piety.
Anthony explores the need to continually remind ourselves of the fundamentals of racialisation, to ensure space for analytic relational thought with the adolescents we work with
11:15 - 11:45am Tea and coffee
Dr Sara Flanders, Psychoanalyst, Brent Centre for Young People
The Virtual World and the Gendered Body
11:45am12:45pm
Sara Flanders will explore the contrasting uses made of the virtual world by two highly conflicted adolescents. One finding in the virtual space of gaming, a transitional space in which to play, to explore her embattled struggle with living her own life, owning her sexual body, knowing her gender, the gaming world eventually helping to create a bridge to the world of reality. For another, the internet sucks her into a disembodied and eventually psychotic withdrawal.
12:451:45pm
1:45 - 2:45pm
Lunch and networking
Felicity Tyson, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Brent Centre for Young People
Shanice Richards, Dramatherapist, Respond
Now you see me, now you don't: Supporting adolescent development in psychotherapy with young people with autism and learning difficulties
How do we keep the developmental process of adolescence alive in our minds and in the minds of other professionals when we are working with young people with autism and learning difficulties? When early trauma has shaped how young people relate to the world and the world relates to them, how do we help nurture their adolescent development or help them back onto a developmental track? Felicity Tyson and Shanice Richards will present their findings based on experiences of clinical supervision, case management and clinical work with young people.
Dr Andrew Browne, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Westminster School
Fiona Henderson, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Westminster School
Meeting the mental health needs of adolescents today; the nature and significance of the assessment for psychotherapy
2:45 - 3:30pm
Anna Freud said that psychotherapeutic work with adolescents is a “hazardous venture from beginning to end” Over time, these “hazards” and complexities have led to substantial developments in how child psychotherapists think and practice clinically.
The speakers draw on Andrew Browne’s doctoral research, as well as their experience of providing a contemporary psychotherapeutic service at Westminster School, to discuss how we assess and engage young people today
3:30-4:00pm Teaandcoffee
4:00-5:15pm
BridgingtheGap
PaneldiscussionchairedbyNinaWessels,ConsultantChild &AdolescentPsychotherapistandPsychoanalyst,Brent CentreforYoungPeople
FelicityTyson,Child&AdolescentPsychotherapist,Brent CentreforYoungPeople
SebastianKohon,ConsultantChild&Adolescent Psychotherapist,BrentCentreforYoungPeopleandMill HillSchool
IrisGibbs,ConsultantChild&AdolescentPsychotherapist
PhillipMcGill,ConsultantChild&Adolescent Psychotherapist
SpeakerInformation
DrAnthonyOgoe,Child&AdolescentPsychotherapist
Anthonyhasspentoverfifteenyearsworkinginchildand adolescentmentalhealthservices(CAMHS),includinginpatient settings,communityoutpatientclinics,educationsettings, forensicsectorsandabroad Hecurrentlyworksinthecharity sectorandprivatepractice,doingclinicwork,facilitatinggroups andofferingreflectivepractice/consultationtoarangeofstaff teams
DrSaraFlanders,Psychoanalyst&Trainingand SupervisingAnalyst,BrentCentreforYoungPeopleand BritishPsychoanalyticalSociety
SarahasworkedattheBrentCentreforYoungPeopleformany years,bothseeingpatientsandsupervising Shehaswritten numerousarticlesonadolescenceandvariousothersubjects Sarahistheco-chairoftheForumforthePsychoanalysisof AdolescenceattheEuropeanPsychoanalyticalFederation
SebastianKohon,Child&AdolescentPsychoanalytic Psychotherapist,BrentCentreforYoungPeople
SebastianKohontrainedasaChildPsychoanalytic PsychotherapistattheTavistockandPortmanNHSTrust,London, andadultpsychoanalyticpsychotherapistattheBritish PsychotherapyFoundation HeworksattheBrentCentre, BelmontSchoolMillHillandinprivatepracticeinSWLondon He hassupervisedandtaughtcliniciansbasedintheUK,Malaysia, ChinaandAustralia.Hisworkhasbeenpublishedinthe InternationalJournalofPsychoanalysis,JournalofChild PsychotherapyandintheJahrbuchderPsychoanalyse
ShaniceRichards,Dramatherapist,Respond
ShaniceisaregisteredDramatherapistwhoqualifiedin2020 Shehasexperienceworkingwithyoungpeoplewithlearning disabilitiesandautism.ShejoinedRespondinSeptember2020 havingvolunteeredwiththemduringherMaster’sdegree. Shaniceispassionateaboutworkingcreativelywithyoung peoplethroughdramatherapy
DrFelicityTyson,Child&AdolescentPsychotherapist
FelicityisaChild&AdolescentPsychotherapistandMangeratthe BrentCentreforYoungPeople SheisaClinicalSupervisorat Respond,acharitythatprovidestherapytoyoungpeopleand adultswithlearningdifficultieswhohaveexperiencedtraumaand abuse.FelicityistheCourseLeadfor‘DiversifyingtheChild& AdolescentMentalHealthWorkforce’courseandaVisiting LecturerattheTavistockandPortmanNHSTrust
DrAndrewBrowne,Child&Adolescent Psychotherapist
AndrewworksasaschoolcounselloratWestminsterSchool.He alsoworksforapsychotherapyserviceforyoungpeoplein Haringeyandrunsasmallprivatepractice Throughouthiscareer, Andrewhasalwayshadapassionforworkingwithadolescents HecompletedhistrainingattheTavistockandPortmanNHS Trust,whereheworkedinacommunityCAMHSteam,aswellas inaspecialistpsychotherapeuticserviceforadolescentsand youngadults Hisdoctoralresearchexploredthetopicofhow childpsychotherapistsassessadolescentsforpsychotherapy
FionaHenderson,Child&AdolescentPsychotherapist
FionaHendersonisaChild&AdolescentPsychotherapistwith experienceworkinginNHSCAMHSteamsinFosteringand AdoptionandCAMHSteamsinschools Shehasexperience trainingandsupervisingChildandAdolescenttrainees.Sheis currentlyworkingintheCounsellingTeamatWestminster School
NinaWessels, Child&AdolescentPsychotherapistand Psychoanalyst,WestminsterCentreforYoungPeople
NinaWesselsisaConsultantChild&AdolescentPsychotherapist andPsychoanalyst,workingwithchildren,youngpeopleand adults Shecompletedherchildpsychotherapytrainingatthe TavistockandPortmanNHSTrustinLondon,andsubsequently workedintheirChildandFamilyDepartmentwhereshewasthe courseorganiserforacourseinPsychologicalTherapieswith children,youngpeopleandfamiliesandtheleadofaclinicalteam workingwithchildren,adolescentsandadultswithautismand learningdisabilities.
IrisGibbs,ConsultantChild&Adolescent Psychotherapist
IrisGibbsisaChild&AdolescentPsychotherapist andtrainedwith theBritishAssociationofPsychotherapists(nowtheBritish PsychotherapyFoundation) Sheteaches,supervisesandruns workshopsondiversity Shehasaprivatepracticeandoffers supervisiontotrainees,therapistsandotherhealthcare professionals.Shehasbeenaconsultanttoatherapeuticfostering organisationforanumberofyearsandhascontributedtovarious books
PhillipMcGill,ConsultantChild&Adolescent Psychotherapist
PhillipMcGillisaConsultantChild&AdolescentPsychotherapist. HeisoneoftwoCo-CourseLeadsfortheDoctoralChild& AdolescentPsychotherapyTrainingattheTavistockandPortman NHSTrustandhasanhonoraryroleintheFostering,Adoptionand KinshipCareTeamattheTavistock Phillipalsoleadsthetwo PsychoanalyticThoughtmodulesfortheMasterscoursesatAnna Freud
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Brent Centre for Young People
Laufer House
51 Winchester Avenue
London NW6 7TT 020 7328 0918
info@brentcentre.org.uk www.brentcentre.org.uk
Registered Charity Number: 1081903
Company Number: 4037793
OSCR Registration Number: SCO52246
Westminster School, London
17A Dean's Yard
London SW1P 3PB 020 7963 1000
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Registered Charity Number: 312728