Useful
links
CECA Interview
The Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (CECA) interview is a retrospective
measure of childhood and adolescent experience. It has been developed
by the team at Lifespan Research Group to investigate lifetime risk
factors for mental health disorders.
Centre
for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS)
A
new Centre for research, practice and training, focussed on issues
of abuse and trauma. The Centre provides research, consultancy, media
advice, practice training, continuing professional development, knowledge
transfer and learning in a broad range of abuse related topics across
the lifespan. The Centre is directed by Prof Bifulco (RHUL, Lifespan
Research Group) and Prof Davidson (Kingston
University).
Child and Family Training
Child and Family Training is a not-for-profit organisation
which provides training on evidence-based approaches for assessing
children and their families.
Lifespan
Research Group
The Lifespan Research Group investigates social and psychological
factors influencing mental health. It takes a lifespan approach, examining
factors from childhood through to older age, in community-based samples
ranging in age from 16 to 75. The
Lifespan Research Group is part of the Health and Social Care Department
at Royal Holloway, University of London.
LifespanCollection
Data collected from 10 years of MRC programme funding with over 500
families in London, is currently in the process of being preserved
and archived by Lifespan Research Group.
Health
and Social Care Department
Part of the Royal Holloway, University of London.
Royal
Holloway, University of London
University website homepage.
St
Christopher’s Fellowship
Lifespan is working with this voluntary organisation on the Specialist
Homes Action Research Project (SHARP), a new intervention for children
with complex needs living in residential care. Lifespan are providing
enhanced assessments of the young people’s risks and resiliences
and workshops for staff on attachment theory and implications for
practice.
