Many of the children who move into foster and adoptive families have experienced trauma. Each child may present that trauma in different ways, some of which can be harder to spot.
This is a clip from the webinar, in which Dr Natalie Briant talks through a range of ways that children may present trauma symptoms – from the obvious to the less obvious. She also looks at strategies to help support your child and briefly comments on how to approach this area with school.
This webinar is aimed at prospective adopters, adoptive parents, special guardians, foster carers and professionals.
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Clinical Psychologist
Dr Natalie Briant is a clinical psychologist who has spent more than 25 years working with children who are care experienced and have moved into foster or adoptive families. Most latterly in the NHS Natalie was the clinical lead for a CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) specifically for looked after and adopted young people and enjoyed the challenge of creating a service that could provide a responsive and helpful service for families who were struggling. While there she designed and led a range of training programmes and groups for foster and adoptive families and other adults who work with care experienced children.
Natalie is passionate about helping the adults around a child understand more about what might be happening for their child or children. Natalie currently works in private practice in Oxfordshire and continues to provide some interventions to children who are care experienced.