Exploring community, cultural, developmental and trauma rooted barriers to mourning after times of organised violence and war

Sheila Melzak is Director, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and founding member of the Baobab Centre, developing a multidisciplinary and holistic therapeutic community approach to the care of troubled young people. Sheila is interested in the impact of violence and loss on young people who lack involved parenting during development, particularly the interplay of vulnerabilities and resiliencies. She is keen to share the results of Baobab Centre and other research in this field with people in statutory agencies.
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Jo McClatchey is a senior child and adolescent psychotherapist at Harrow CAMHS and at the Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile. Over the past eight years, she has taught on a number of courses at the Tavistock Centre introducing students to psychoanalytic ideas; she is currently a doctoral supervisor. Her own research interests have focused on groups and ways of supporting parents to cope with trauma and separation at the beginning of life.