RE-THINK #3: Trauma in Practice
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RE-THINK PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Re-Think is a public seminar lecture series run by The University of Newcastle’s School of Humanities and Social Science, where UON humanities researchers present their work to the general public via short presentations on connected topics of contemporary interest followed by the opportunity for questions and extensive discussion. It provides a valuable chance for academics who teach into the Bachelor of Arts and the public to interact on contemporary topics and themes in a casual environment, with drinks in hand.
Featuring a diverse array of speakers in regard to discipline area, career stage, and gender, the series runs on the first Thursday of every month throughout Semester 2 2016, and will return during semester in 2017.
Whether you're an academic staff member, student, post-graduate researcher, or member of the public, please come along to this exciting series and listen, discuss, eat, and drink!
RE-THINK 3: Trauma in Practice
Speakers and topics are as follows:
Dr Tamara Blakemore - 'Trauma-informed Care: Promise, Paradox, Peril'
Recent media focus on the institutional abuse of children and young people has brought the occurrence and outcomes of trauma into our living rooms and across our breakfast tables like never before. With evidence detailing the profound impact such trauma can have on the lives of survivors, experts have advocated a trauma informed approach to services and supports provided in the community. This presentation explores the promise of trauma informed care alongside points of paradox and issues of potential peril. It questions whether real systemic change has accompanied the widespread adoption in of trauma informed care in social policy and practice? It ponders the potential risk of linking of experience to outcome, and risk to destiny in a way that continues to disempower survivors. And finally, it poses the question; apart from an awareness of trauma and its impact, what distinguishes trauma informed care from good practice, and is this distinguishing awareness enough to guide practice in supporting recovery?
Professor Catharine Coleborne - 'Researching Traumatic Memory: Writing about Mental Health in the Present Past'
Cathy will speak about the current rupture inside histories of mental health and psychiatry, a rupture caused by the still-present memories of institutional trauma, and what effect that has on writing history.
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