Workshop Presentation
Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle
31st January 2008

4pm until 5pm

Bamburgh Room
Kings Road Centre
Newcastle University


Please note the link below which gives the location details of this
room.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/tcrs/location/trs_location.html



All very welcome – we are hoping for a high number of colleagues to
join us from the NE region (health, and education). Please e-mail
Deborah James to let us know whether you'll be attending.

d.m.james@...


Title: Working in Partnership with Families: A Model of the
Processes of Helping.

Presenter: Hilton Davis, Emeritus Professor of Child Health
Psychology, Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London and
Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Abstract:
Social and emotional problems in children are a major source of
disability and have significant implications for society. By way of
context, it will be argued in this workshop that our services are not
meeting these needs effectively and that this is at least partly due
to the lack of an explicit model to guide: 1) the work of individual
practitioners; 2) the design of services; and 3) research on which
service development can be built.

The aim in the session, therefore, will be to describe the Family
Partnership Model, as an explicit and usable conceptual framework for
making sense of the helping processes.

Implications for staff selection, training and managerial support
will be discussed, in order to explore the notion that service
effectiveness lies as much with the personal qualities and skills of
practitioners and the relationships they establish with families as
with specific intervention techniques.

By way of evaluation, this model meets the requirements of parents,
has reasonable validity in terms of processes and effectiveness and
complements most other content based approaches if they are to be
effective.

Further information and slides of the workshop can be obtained from
the Centre for Parent and Child Support website (www.cpcs.org.uk).

Biographical Information:
Hilton is married with three grown children.
He is a clinical psychologist by background and has been working in
the NHS and medical schools for most of his career in London.
He is Emeritus Professor of Child Health Psychology at King's College
London after retiring in September 2007 from his post as the founding
Head of the Centre for Parent and Child Support at Guy's Hospital
(see www.cpcs.org.uk).
The Centre provides consultancy, training, supervision and research
in relation to support services for families generally.
The neglect of communication processes throughout public services,
led Hilton and colleagues to develop the Family Partnership Model,
which provides an explicit and accessible conceptual framework of
helping and communication processes for all potential helpers, backed
by evidence based training.
He has been particularly concerned with the prevention of
psychosocial problems and has worked to disseminate effective
practice throughout