Invitation
Self harm |Awareness Day Campaign
The Medway Public health department has sponsored the following information
sharing sessions to raise awareness of Self-harm.
Anyone working with or caring for children and young people in Medway
is welcome to attend any of these sessions
1. Troubled Minds and Scarred Bodies
Monday 3rd March – 9.00am for 9.30 start, finishing at 11.30
Lecture Delivered by Dr Terrence Nice Lecturer of University of Kent and Specialist Psychotherapist in East Kent
CAMHS (See biography below)
2. Self harm awareness
Wednesday 5th of March – 9.00am for 9.30 start, finishing at 11.30
Participative workshop Delivered by Jacqueline White, Primary Mental Health Worker , Sussex Partnership NHS
Foundation Trust. Insight into risk assessment and referral pathways for professionals confronted with young people
who may have self-harmed.
3. Reducing the risk of Psychosis and suicide by early intervention.
Thursday 6th March – 13.30 for a 14.00 start, finishing at 15.00
Yasmin Ishiaq - Youth mental health lead for Kent and Medway, Service Manager Kent and Medway Early
Intervention in Psychosis Service
Biography of Dr Terence Nice
I am a Lecturer in Psychological Therapies at the University of Kent, in the city of Canterbury and a Highly Specialist
Psychotherapist in East Kent CAMHS. I trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the University of Kent before going
forward to the MA in infant observation at the Tavistock Centre in London. I have always been fascinated by a
developmental trajectory with regards to child, adolescent and adult mental health. My interest in research was fired when I
commenced my own doctoral research in psychotherapy. I became interested in questions, such as what is research? How
can it inform clinical psychotherapy? What is the relationship between clinicians and researchers? In 2012, I completed my
doctoral thesis ‘Troubled Minds and Scarred Bodies’ which explored from a qualitative perspective what was going on in the
minds of young people who self-harmed. Following this, I have presented workshops and a paper upon the theme of
adolescent self-harm at the third annual UKCP Research Conference (2012) and co-chaired the fourth annual research
conference (2013) at Regents College in London. I am an academic reviewer for the British Journal of Psychotherapy. I
have a broad and diverse range of qualitative and quantitative research interests including:
Child and Adolescent Self-harm
 Attempted and Completed Suicide in Adults
 Infant Observation and Development
 Developmental Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
 Moments of Meeting in Psychotherapy
Reflective and Inter-disciplinary Practice in Health Organizations
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All session will be held at
Medway Council, Gun wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, ME4 4TR
Spaces are free but limited. Please reserve your space early by contacting
Rathini Mills rathini.mills@medway.gov.uk or 01634 332644
There is no car parking onsite but Public Car Parking nearby