Causes of low self-esteem/self-hate: helping children and young people heal

CAUSES OF LOW SELF-ESTEEM/SELF-HATE

Helping children and young people heal

How painful it is to live your life with a tormented relationship to self, fuelled by constant inner critical voices and self- loathing. So, this presentation will address underlying core pain of trauma-based shame, and how this is a key component of depression and many other mental health problems. Dr Sunderland will discuss how young people can be helped to safely access core memories of shame because “feelings have to be felt to be changed" (Leslie Greenberg).

She will discuss how empathic interventions and collaborative sense-making provided by a therapeutic practitioner, can enable young people to "change emotion with emotion" (Leslie Greenberg) resulting in a shift from self-hate to self-compassion. Dr Sunderland will also focus on the importance of helping young people reflect on unmet emotional needs for connection and validation, and then how to access empowered anger, grief for traumas of omission and from there to establish long-term self-compassion.

She will present fascinating case material about children and young people who felt they were worthless, defective and whose lives were blighted by shame, but, in the safety of therapeutic relationship, they were able to heal.

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Event Type: Online CPD in Child & Adolescent Mental Health

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dr Margot Sunderland

Founding Director Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Higher Education College Academic Partner of the University of East London). Director of Education and Training Centre for Child Mental Health. Director of Innovation and Research Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK). TISUK has delivered training to over 20,000 school and community staff across the UK. They have University of East London and DfE approved trainings. Currently undertaking a random control trial for Home Office and Youth Endowment Foundation, on trauma informed practice in schools.

Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience. Author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries. Author of the internationally acclaimed book, ‘The Science of Parenting’ (Dorling Kindersley) which won a First Prize in the British Medical Association Book Awards (popular medicine) and endorsed by the world’s leading affective neuroscientist, Professor Jaak Panksepp. The book has also been voted as one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation.