Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work: Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

About

Richard Rose is the Director of Therapeutic Life Story Work International (TLSWi) https://tlswi.com/about-tlswi/ which provides consultancy and training on Therapeutic Life Story Work and working with 'hard to reach' children and adolescents. Richard has worked with traumatised children and families since he was 17 years old qualifying as a social worker in 1989. Richard is a regular visitor to Australia where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University Melbourne and Honorary Associate of Berry Street Melbourne. He is also an Honorary Associate of the Open Adoption Institute University of Sydney. He is a regular visitor to the USA where he presents for Portland State University DHS Oregon and ORPARC (Adoption Services). Deborah D. Gray is a clinical social worker specialising in attachment grief and trauma. She is a leading figure in her field and a sought-after presenter and trainer. She runs a private practice Nurturing Attachments in Kirkland Washington USA and has spent over 15000 hours in the last 15 years counselling children who were adopted. Her private practice philosophy is one of empowering parents with information and techniques they can use to meet the needs of their children and develop close satisfying relationships. She teaches in the Cascadia Resources/Northwest Adoption Resource and Portland State post-Graduate Programs in Adoption Counselling and the University of Washington's Post-Graduate Trauma Certificate program. In her personal life Deborah D. Gray feels linked to adoption through the family in which she grew up and has also been a therapeutic foster. In 2015 Deborah was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the international ATTACh conference for her contribution to the field of attachment. To find out more about Deborah visit her website at www.deborahdgray.com.