XIth ISPCAN European Regional Conference

Summary: “Supporting Prevention and Recovery from Child Abuse and Neglect: Role of Professionals, Communities and Families.”

Themes:

1. Effectiveness of current models of prevention and intervention
2. Learning from survivors and family members
3. Impact of violence on children's health and development
4. Implementing the CRC: From a document to an instrument
5. Psychotherapy with abused children and their families
6. Multi-disciplinary cooperation: Impact on children and families
7. Interventions with offenders
8. Legal and law enforcement issues in child abuse and neglect
9. Education and training of professionals in Europe
10. Child abuse & neglect and the community (including children in institutions, refugee and displaced children, child labor, child trafficking, child abuse and the internet).

Keynote Speakers:

  • Dr. Arnon Bentovim + UK
    “Promoting The Recovery of Children and Parents Growing Up in a Climate of Violence and Adversity“
  • Ms. Claire Brisset + France
    “Implementing the Convention on the Rights of a Child (CRC): From a Document to an Instrument”
  • Dr. Kevin Browne, Ph.D. ,C Psychol . + UK
    “The Overuse of Institutional Care for Young Children in Europe and Its Relation to Child Abandonment and International Adoption”
  • Prof. Carl Göran Svedin, M.D., Ph.D . + Sweden
    “Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation and Use of Pornography: The Plague of Modern Society?”
  • Bragi Gudbrandsson + Iceland
    “Child Protection in Europe: the Impact of the UN CRC and International Collaboration on Policy and Practice”
  • Prof. Sergio Pinheiro, Ph.D + Switzerland (tent.)
    “The World Report on Violence against Children: the Way Forward”

Pre-Conference Advanced Skills Training Institute
Sunday, 18 November - Marriot Lisboa Hotel

Facilitated by Tilman Furniss, MD, MPHIL, professor of child psychiatry and head of the clinical department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital, Munster, Germany.

The Advance Skills Training Institute will be a full day pre-Conference event and will serve as a tool for professionals attending the conference to gain more intensive, advanced and focused training.

The registration fee for the Institute is 85 Euros per person, including admission to all Institute sessions, tea breaks and lunch. To register, please fill out section D of the registration form. Please note that the Advanced Skills Training Institute will take place at the Marriot Lisboa Hotel.

ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 April 2007. Visit: www.ispcan.org/euroconf2007

 

 

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Call for Abstracts Registration Brochure FINAL.pdf

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