The Centre for Emotional Development promotes an educational programme on subjects related to Child and Adolescent Mental Health. https://emotionaldevelopment.co.uk/events/reviews 2026-10-23T14:21:51Z Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z https://emotionaldevelopment.co.uk/events/reviews/life-story-work Administrator emodev@verything.net

<p>It was a day that promised, in the words of Leslie Ironside, Director of the Centre for Emotional Development, ‘plenty of manure for your garden’. The less green fingered among us, or indeed those more ambivalent about life story work should, nonetheless, bear in mind Adam Phillips’s Winnicottian caution: ‘You never know what the unconscious will make use of.’</p>

<p>It was a day that promised, in the words of Leslie Ironside, Director of the Centre for Emotional Development, ‘plenty of manure for your garden’. The less green fingered among us, or indeed those more ambivalent about life story work should, nonetheless, bear in mind Adam Phillips’s Winnicottian caution: ‘You never know what the unconscious will make use of.’</p> 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z https://emotionaldevelopment.co.uk/events/reviews/are-they-mad-or-bad-conference Administrator emodev@verything.net

<p>This important and timely conference, organised by Leslie Ironside, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Director of the Centre for Emotional Development, addressed some of the difficulties raised in trying to understand the complex pattern of emotional and developmental difficulties children who have been in care present.</p>

<p>This important and timely conference, organised by Leslie Ironside, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Director of the Centre for Emotional Development, addressed some of the difficulties raised in trying to understand the complex pattern of emotional and developmental difficulties children who have been in care present.</p> 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z https://emotionaldevelopment.co.uk/events/reviews/teenage-mothers-and-young-fathers Administrator emodev@verything.net

<p>The number of teenage pregnancies in the UK is the highest in Europe. Terminations are also high and those who have their babies often are involved with Social Services. This fifth annual conference on the early years of life, staged and organized by the Centre for Emotional Development in Brighton, was as, “ a study day…looking at what it means to be a teenage mother or young father...</p>

<p>The number of teenage pregnancies in the UK is the highest in Europe. Terminations are also high and those who have their babies often are involved with Social Services. This fifth annual conference on the early years of life, staged and organized by the Centre for Emotional Development in Brighton, was as, “ a study day…looking at what it means to be a teenage mother or young father...</p> 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z 2011-10-02T19:48:44Z https://emotionaldevelopment.co.uk/events/reviews/fostering-a-adoption-one-day-conference Administrator emodev@verything.net

<p>Dr. Leslie Ironside, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Director CfED, spoke first on ‘Keeping Multiple Families in Mind.’   He evoked feelings of empathy in the audience as we heard a child’s perspective on being fostered and thought about Fairbairn’s quotation on the greatest need of a child being to feel genuinely loved by his parents...</p>

<p>Dr. Leslie Ironside, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Director CfED, spoke first on ‘Keeping Multiple Families in Mind.’   He evoked feelings of empathy in the audience as we heard a child’s perspective on being fostered and thought about Fairbairn’s quotation on the greatest need of a child being to feel genuinely loved by his parents...</p>