Engaging with Complexity

Rita Harris is CAMHS Director of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She continues to work as a clinical psychologist and family therapist in a fostering, adoption, and kinship care service within the Trust, specializing in issues of contact for children with parents with whom they no longer live. She has a long record of developing community services in partnership with local authorities and the voluntary sector and involving children and young people in their planning and delivery. Sadegh Nashat is a consultant clinical psychologist and a systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. As a training lead, he has developed and delivered a range of child, adolescent, and family mental health programmes aimed at education professionals. He has a special interest in the area of social and school exclusion and in mental health interventions in education settings. Sue Rendall is a consultant child and educational psychologist and is Director of EP Initial and CPD Doctoral Training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has thirty-seven years' experience working in health and educational contexts, including being head of middle school in a co-educational comprehensive school and, later, after training as an educational psychologist at Birmingham in 1981, as an educational psychologist in three local-authority multidisciplinary services. She was Vice Dean of Postgraduate Training in the Child & Family Directorate of the Tavistock, for six years, and in 2005-6 was seconded to the DfES for two days a week as Professional Advisor for Child & Adolescent Mental Health. Her PhD research was a systemic understanding of school exclusion.

Passion in the classroom: understanding some vicissitudes in teacher-pupil relationships and the unavoidable anxieties of learning, The school as a secure place, Integrating reintegration: the role of child and adolescent mental health professionals in supporting the inclusion of excluded pupils, The Mediation Model: a conflict resolution approach for the promotion of the psychological well-being of children and adolescents, Giving feelings a voice: the case for emotionally literate schools, with particular reference to a London comprehensive, Working and learning together: a collaboration between the Tavistock Clinic and New Rush Hall School, Supporting children diagnosed with a developmental disorder: advantages of family home interventions for school integration, Changing conversations, Fox?€?s Earth: developing social links in a traumatized community, The role of a child and adolescent mental health service with looked after children in educational context, Families and schools ?€“ a network of interdependent agencies: the ecology of development, The social construction of school exclusion