The Centre for Childhood Relational Trauma
An international body focussing on all forms of childhood relational trauma that arise within a relationship to a significant caregiver, including abuse, neglect, and enmeshment.
This international symposium, co-hosted with the Family Separation Clinic, will foreground the experiences of children living with psychologically abusive parenting and, in particular hear directly from now-adult children who were protected from a harmful parent through removal and transfer of residence by the family courts.
The symposium will also explore the underlying dynamics that lead to children’s rejection of a relationship with parent in the context of divorce or family separation, and the developmental harm of childhood relational trauma.
Through papers and presentations from professionals working in the frontline of child protection, as well as researches and other professionals, the symposium will look at best practice in this highly complex field.