Working With Women With Complex Needs
Understanding and meeting the needs of women experiencing multiple disadvantage
About this course
Working with women experiencing multiple disadvantage: This course will help participants understand the specific, multiple and complex difficulties experienced by women facing multiple disadvantage and explore tailored approaches to service design and deliver for this population. This will include thinking about the role of power, and complex and compound trauma; prostitution; working with risk, safeguarding and domestic violence; working with couples, the loss of children taken into the care system and relationships to care and support professionals; before exploring practical skills to enhance engagement, strengths-based approaches, work with substance use, trauma informed systems and female service re-design.
Your instructors
Dr Rebecca O'Grady
Clinical Psychologist, Solace Women's Aid
Dr Rebecca O’Grady has worked as a Clinical Psychologist since 2013 and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist. She currently works for Solace Women’s Aid, leading on a project to engage women experiencing Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) who face multiple barriers to accessing support, such as homelessness, insecure immigration status, involvement in prostitution, substance use and mental health issues.
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Rebecca trains professionals across the statutory and non-statutory sectors in complex trauma and in gender-informed and trauma-informed approaches. She has previously worked within a Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Service, and was an integral part of the Psychology in Hostels service in Lambeth, a pioneering Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) service for individuals with multiple complex needs. She draws on a range of psychological theories in her approach, including attachment theory, mentalisation-based therapy (MBT), narrative therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. She strongly believes in drawing on the strengths and resources of the women we are working with to enable them to take greater agency within their own lives.
Dr Emma Williamson
Founder and CEO, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Passionately working across organisational boundaries to develop new approaches to address health inequalities, Dr Williamson has a national reputation as leader in the development and delivery of services to address the needs of people with complex needs and people experiencing multiple disadvantage.
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Emma is also the CEO of aneemo, works in private practice, teaches on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and is a published author, regularly talking at conferences, in national media, TV documentaries and news programmes.
Questions
When does the course start and finish?
Whenever you like. It's fully self-paced: start when you enrol, finish in one sitting or over several weeks.
How long do I have access?
For as long as you need it. You get lifetime access, for as long as the course is published on our platform, on any device you own.
Can my organisation buy places for a whole team?
Yes. Use "Get a team price" to see bulk and annual licence prices straight away, or ask us and we'll come back with bulk and annual licence options, invoicing, and completion reporting for your managers.