MRC Webinar - Constructing, and Reconstructing, Childhood in Care

Dr Stephen Mills is a systemic psychotherapist and an Associate Lecturer and Doctoral Supervisor for candidates on the Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice at the Tavistock Centre in London. He has spent several years working in CAMHS teams, most notably with children in the care system. His recently completed doctoral thesis explored Constructions of the Child in Care.

In this webinar, Stephen will draw on his doctoral thesis to consider along with participants how, in everyday language and practice, social workers construct and reconstruct children involved in the care system:

• the way children/childhoods in the care system are constructed;

• the role played in these constructions by professional networks around the child;

• the implications of these constructions for the care that children receive.