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We鈥檙e delighted to welcome back our free in-person Making Connections events.

These regular face to face conferences take place throughout the year and give you the chance to network with other members and our divisional executive members.

10.50am 鈥� 11.35am

We know that victims and survivors of non-recent/ historical institutional child abuse experience a range of long-term physical and mental health conditions. Child abuse including institutional child abuse can be a life-long living legacy for survivors.

The aim of this consultation was firstly to listen to survivors and hear what they had to tell us about their health and their experiences of supports and services. The second was to bring this information together.

Learning outcomes

• Increase awareness that victims and survivors are in the community whether they disclose their status or not
• Increase awareness of the long term effects of institutional childhood abuse on health and wellbeing
• Increase awareness of what survivors are telling us they need from services
• Increase awareness that survivors have futures as well as pasts and are alive now
• Highlight the gaps in research into survivors lived experiences and what can be done to address these gaps

11.45am - 12.30pm

The focus of Jim's presentation is to highlight who or what version(s) of the therapist and
client(s) presents in the counselling and psychotherapeutic space, how constant or
intermittant is that connection and how the vital, initial connection sustains the long
term client - therapist alignment.

Learning outcomes

• to highlight and encourage sustained connective presence, mirroring self-care awareness in the 鈥渉ere and now鈥�.
• the role and importance of connection in sustaining our authentic self and maintaining congruence
• connecting with the client from where where they are at and from the place they are coming from

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3.10pm - 3.55pm

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a diagnosis given to people whose challenges with eating a varied diet are significantly impacting their life, from a health, psychological perspective, or both. ARFID may be driven by a fear of aversive consequences of eating (e.g., fear of vomiting or choking); a low interest in eating; sensory differences or a combination of these.

As awareness of ARFID grows and more people seek therapeutic input for their or their child鈥檚 eating, there can be a sense of unease amongst therapists concerning a lack of training and clarity about how to work with it. This is further complicated by the interdisciplinary nature of feeding interventions, which may involve occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics and physician-led monitoring.听

In this session, Jo will introduce you to responsive feeding therapy (RFT), a modality grounded in humanistic psychology and interpersonal neurobiology. While the fear of aversive consequences subtype of ARFID may be better suited to a cognitive behavioural approach, RFT is applicable in the context of avoidant eating with a sensory or low interest basis.

Jo will focus on working with parents of children with ARFID, although RFT can be used in the context of direct clinical work with children as well as with adult and adolescent clients. She will highlight the importance of neuro-affirmative practice, which - as a neuro- divergent person herself - she cares deeply about.

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Learning outcomes:

• List the main ARFID criteria and subtypes
• Recognise the importance of health monitoring in the context of ARFID
• Describe the core philosophy of responsive feeding therapy
• Reflect on how to work in a neuro-affirmative way