Dr Jessica Taylor back in NZ - PD for mental health professionals

These Hamilton NZ workshops, are for registered health professionals or students working/or planning to work with victims of abuse - you will be asked to provide details of your professional body membership and number or student ID upon completion of the workshop registration.

Please note: no available parking onsite

Full day ticket price includes

• 2 hot topic workshops in 1 day
• signed copy of the ITIM to keep (RRP $74.26)
• light refreshments throughout the day
• certificate

AM - Pathologisation and the implications when working with victims of abuse

PM - ITIM: Indicative Trauma Impact Manual - - with your own personal signed copy to keep

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About Dr Jessica Taylor, Jaimi Shrive & VictimFocus

Dr Jessica Taylor, FRSA, PhD, Director of VictimFocus, Sunday Times Bestselling Author, Specialist in Victim Blaming, Self-Blame and Recovery from Sexual Violence, Chartered Psychologist, Researcher, Consultant, Speaker, Activist.

Jaimi Shrive, Jaimi Shrive is a Doctoral Researcher undertaking a PhD in Politics, specialising in the way international and national politics changes the way governments respond to violence and abuse committed against women and girls. She is a trainer, public speaker, and writer, creating educational resources for professionals who work in trauma, abuse and violence. She is the co-author of several public and confidential reports on the impact of violence, abuse, vicarious trauma, and misogyny in policing, and social care services.

They co-authored the Indicative Trauma Impact Manual and together they will deliver workshops guaranteed to impact and inform your work with clients using trauma informed approaches while navigating the challenges this can present.

VictimFocus’ work often attracts positive media attention from a huge range of national and international outlets with their media and social media reach averaging over 1.5 million each week. In the past, they have consulted on storylines of TV dramas, misogyny in the British music industry, and true crime documentaries. Their research has been discussed on The BBC, Sky, and ITV News, Loose Women, CNN, LBC, GBNews and many more. VictimFocus’ CEO, Dr Jessica Taylor, has worked and appeared on documentaries and shows for Netflix, Amazon Prime, The BBC, Chanel 4 and many others.

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A personal message from Dr Jess

I am so excited to be meeting you all very soon! Below is some information about my work and expertise.

I have worked in criminal and forensic work since I was 19 years old. I’m 33 soon. It’s all I’ve done for 14 years. I have a BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology

• I have a PhD in Forensic Psychology, specialising in the psychology of victim blaming of women and girls subjected to male violence
• I have a PG Dip in CBT (I don’t practice as a CBT therapist)
• I wrote the national evidence review into CSE best practice
• I have been awarded two fellowships for my contribution to psychology, one in 2018 and one in 2023
• I am a Sunday Times Bestselling author, and have three bestselling non-fiction books. All together, I have written 8 books in the last 6 years. Each book has sold thousands of copies each, some tens of thousands.
• I have lectured at, and given invited keynotes at countless universities and institutions
• I have undertaken many small and large mixed-methods psychological studies
• I am the author of the validated psychometric measure BOWSVA Scale which tests victim blaming of women in general public samples
• I have personally trained tens of thousands of professionals in psychology, rape, child abuse, domestic abuse, violence, trauma, misogyny and human trafficking
• I sit on several executive and strategy boards as an expert in VAWG and trauma-informed approaches
• I worked frontline in the criminal justice system for several years, specialising in domestic abuse trials in magistrates courts, before then going to manage several courts vulnerable and intimidated witness programmes for homicide, trafficking, child abuse, sexual offences and other serious offences.
• I worked frontline in sexual violence services for several years, managing counselling and helpline services with a team of 30 counsellors.
• I worked in senior management in child sexual exploitation services where I managed and lead on all national training and resources to tackle poor practice with (predominantly) teenage girls who were being subjected to sexual offences
• Alongside all of my work, I volunteered for 6 years in a mental health service, where I worked frontline with hundreds of men who were homeless, poverty, struggling with mental health, dependency, and trauma
• I worked on a confidential project in a UK Pr*son for one year which explored the trauma and safety of the prisoners and the staff
• I worked on a confidential project in the UK music industry looking at misogyny and abuse of famous female artists
• I have consulted on, and worked on, many popular TV series, films, documentaries and other media
• I consult on scripts and structures of new dramas, films and TV shows about rape, abuse and violence against women and girls
• I am the author of hundreds of free, public and confidential reports, articles, papers, evidence reviews, plans, strategies and resources addressing victim blaming and pathologisation of women and girls
• My work on language around VAWG influenced and changed the approaches of the UN Chiefs
• I am the author of a totally free course for anyone subjected to sexual violence to process what happened to them, which has been taken by over 60,000 people since 2019
• My trauma-informed resources are used all over the world, in over 70 countries - and have already been translated into many languages

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