Infant and child-led therapeutic approaches following family violence.
Infants and young children are often the reason services become involved with families experiencing risk (e.g. family violence, child protection concerns), yet their voices are frequently overlooked in everyday practice. This session will highligh that centering infants and children, explicitly and practically, improves family engagement, deepens worker empathy, and strengthens practice, even when time and resources are limited.
Frontline workers can bring a powerful infant‑ and child‑led lens into everyday interactions by slowing down, observing, wondering, and keeping the child’s perspective central—with or without a specialist present.
Featuring Dr Wendy Bunston, Emeritus Professor Margarita Frederico, Dr Maureen Long, Caitlin D and Waleska Parrino.
