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We are pleased to present a whole-day event on trauma-informed care (TIC), focusing on its origins, its applications and the ways in which it can be used in different settings and across the UK. The morning session will provide an overview and descriptions of the application of TIC, followed by an afternoon session hosted by the ACP-UK Complex Mental Health Network discussing TIC approaches within acute settings.

You are most welcome to attend the event flexibly, and come for the whole day or the morning and afternoon events only.

10.30am-12pm
Dr Sheena Webb: Trauma-Informed Care – an Overview and Applications

• Rationale for trauma-informed approaches – what problem are we trying to solve?
• Origins, philosophy and principles of trauma-informed care – how has this evolved?
• What trauma-informed thinking can bring to services – the spectrum of applications from universal precautions to very specific protocols
• Critique

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12.15pm Nations’ Perspectives: Trauma-Informed Care around the UK

Implementing trauma informed and responsive services across Scotland; Why, What, How and So what?
Dr Sandra Ferguson,  Associate Director for Psychology NHS Education for Scotland and Lead for the National Trauma Training Programme

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1.30pm Trauma-Informed Care in Acute Settings
hosted by Professor Craig Steel and the ACP-UK Complex Mental Health Network

Dr Laura Baxendale, Bristol Inpatient Psychology Service, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Developing and delivering a ‘Trauma Informed Care on Wards’ training day for acute inpatient staff.

Dr Lorraine Gordon, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
Applying a Racialised Lens to Trauma Informed Care in Inpatient Services.

Dr David Carmichael, Acute Inpatient Psychology, NHS Lothian
Implementing Trauma-Informed Practice in an Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit: A Scottish Perspective

Dr Gina Harwood, Harrow Mental Health, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework to Inform Team Formulation within Acute Settings

Our presenters: 

Dr Sheena Webb

Sheena Webb has worked in a number of NHS child mental health services specialising in children and adults with complex needs and high risk-behaviour.  For most of her career, Dr Webb has worked in innovative services which try to provide psychological intervention to families who are usually considered ‘hard to help’.  This has included delivering Multisystemic Therapy and providing specialist multidisciplinary assessments and interventions for Local Authorities and the Family Courts.  In 2015, Dr Webb joined FDAC, which is a problem-solving court which brings together health, social care and justice professionals to help parents struggling with addiction who are at risk of losing their children.  Dr Webb now works as an independent consultant and trainer with a special focus on complex trauma and developing trauma-informed services which recognise the impact of trauma upon psychosocial outcomes and upon how individuals engage with services.

Professor Craig Steel

Craig Steel has been Academic Director at OXICPT since November 2018, having previously been the Deputy Director/Deputy Head of School at the Charlie Waller Institute for Evidenced Based Psychological Treatment, School of Psychology, University of Reading. He has a particular interest in developing models than enable us to ‘make sense’ of psychotic symptoms within the context of the reaction to traumatic life events. Current research includes developing a ‘voice dialogue’ approach to working with distressing voice hearing experiences, working with a London refugee service to help evaluate trauma interventions and working with colleagues across Europe and the UK to evaluate an imagery-based intervention aimed at helping people diagnosed with bipolar disorder better regulate their mood.

Dr Laura Baxendale

Laura Baxendale is a clinical psychologist working in Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, based in Bristol. She has spent most of her career since qualifying in 2015 working in acute mental health settings. She currently works across male and female PICUs (Psychiatric Intensive Care Units) and has previously worked across acute wards. She has been involved in the opening of two new wards, contributing to writing the Models of Care and using a trauma informed Care approach as part of this. She has developed and has been delivering a training day for all acute inpatient staff regarding trauma-informed care on wards.

Dr Lorraine Gordon

Dr Lorraine Gordon is a Consultant Counselling Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS.  She is Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy for Southwark, based at the Maudsley Hospital.  Lorraine works with adults with complex and severe mental health needs. She is the staff senior lead for the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) in Southwark and Trust psychology and psychotherapy PCREF engagement lead. She is a member of UK Association of Black Psychologists, and the Black, African, and Asian Therapist Network. She is a British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy accredited cognitive behavioural therapist and an advanced accredited schema therapist, supervisor and trainer.  In 2021, Lorraine completed a course in Black Psychology and African-Centred Therapy. Lorraine was recently awarded an MA in Business and Management with distinction.

Dr David Carmichael

Dr David Carmichael is a clinical psychologist based within the Acute Adult Inpatient Psychology Service in NHS Lothian. He has worked in mental health services over the past 10 years and completed his clinical training with the University of Edinburgh in 2018. Within his role he works across an intensive psychiatric care unit (IPCU) and an adult acute inpatient ward. His research interests include the relationship between specific forms of interpersonal trauma and specific psychotic experiences, trauma-informed services, and attachment-focused approaches to inpatient care. Since qualifying five years ago, David has worked to develop an inpatient clinical psychology service and with colleagues to translate policy into clinical practice in order to create an MDT trauma-informed model of inpatient care. Ward 1 (IPCU) won the NHS Lothian Team of the Year Award 2022 in recognition of these efforts. David also recently led on the development of adult mental health service’s EUPD & Complex PTSD Integrated Care Pathway alongside colleagues from psychiatry, where this work has a focus on interfaces between community, crisis and inpatient services.

Dr Gina Harwood

Dr Gina Harwood is a clinical psychologist working for Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust within Crisis Mental Health Services in Harrow. Within her role she works across the crisis pathway, supporting service users to make sense of their mental health crisis and offering them choices around how they can move forward with their recovery in the least restrictive way possible. Gina has worked in the NHS for 10 years across a range of clinical settings, and completed her clinical training with Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology in 2019. Prior to joining CNWL, she worked in East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) within adult acute inpatient and community mental health services in Tower Hamlets. She is passionate about trauma-informed care and considering the role of power imbalances in creating and maintaining psychological distress. Gina is a Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) Champion and part of the team leading on TIA training and development within CNWL and local partners.