Child and Adolescent Analysis | From Bad Therapy to Real Therapy | 16th October

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From Bad Therapy to Real Therapy.

The role of intensive care supervision and its impact on intensive psychotherapy with a 13 year old girl in foster care.

Speakers: Marigemma Rocco and Alice Field

Marigemma Rocco is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, trained at the Anna Freud Centre, London. She has held senior clinical roles within CAMHS, including Clinical Lead. She has worked in the Family Unit at the Cassel Hospital with parents diagnosed with severe personality disorders and their children, many of them infants. She has provided consultation to social workers and contributed to the development of specialist CAMHS provision for Looked After Children. She is an experienced supervisor and teacher in the UK and internationally. She is now retired from the NHS and working in private practice.

Alice Field is a Newly Qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, who trained at IPCAPA. She is currently working in a Generic CAMHS Service in London and teaches Infant Observation, having completed her training at a Specialist CAMHS Team for Looked After Children. Alice has spent all her professional life working with Looked After Children. She set up and managed a high-support residential home for young women in care transitioning from psychiatric inpatient, secure care or children’s homes. She has worked in a variety of frontline, therapeutic, supervisory, safeguarding and managerial roles with children and young people in local authority care.


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Event prices

Concession In Person £20.00
Standard Online via Zoom £30.00
Standard In Person £30.00
Concession Online via Zoom £20.00
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16 October 2026
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Organiser

IOPA

Contact Email

[email protected]

Location

Online and 10 Windsor Walk SE5 8BB

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