Greetings!
Welcome to the autumn edition of our quarterly newsletter. We hope you will find this update on our latest activites and forthcoming events interesting. For more details on all our work please visit our website ( www.annafreudcentre.org). |
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Reaching out to pregnant teenagers and young parents |
Pregnant teenagers and young parents often receive negative attention in the media, from their peers and society around them. In many cases teenage parents lack the help they need and many are estranged from their own families. Teenage mothers are more likely to suffer from postnatal depression, eating disorders, anxiety and are more likely to self harm or act in other ways that puts themselves and their babies at risk.
The Anna Freud Centre helps young parents by informing and training the professionals who work with them. The Anna Freud Centre is helping practitioners who work with teenage parents to engage effectively with this high-risk group through a new course, pioneered at the Centre with a Department of Health grant.
 The course of 8 study days of lectures and interactive workshops aims to increase practitioners' understanding of the psychological processes of adolescence, pregnancy and infancy, and ways in which these interrelate. Course Leader Professor Joan Raphael-Leff and her team ran the first course in spring/summer 2008 and the second course is currently running again with participants including health visitors, social workers, psychologists and midwives. The feedback from those taking part is very positive, as one participant explains: 'The course has had a direct impact on my work in so many different ways. I feel more qualified to look at things from so many different aspects and to give our young parents examples of why they feel the way they do and how normal these feelings are.'
Pictured above: Practitioners taking part in the course run at the Anna Freud Centre. |
| 2008 Annual Open Afternoon |
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 The sun shone on our annual Open Afternoon on Sunday 16th September 2008. We were joined by children and families for a fun afternoon of free activities including make your own clock, lantern making, face painting, penalty shoot-out, rhyme time and baby massage.
There was something for everyone with homemade cakes, a raffle and tombola, lucky dip and a mobile library. Families also took the the opportunity to learn more about the work of the Centre - a short film about our work shown through the afternoon was well attended.
A photographer from the local newspaper 'The Ham and High' was there to capture the atmosphere for a feature in the newspaper.
 Thanks to the Fundraising Committee and everyone who volunteered on the day or who donated a prize for the tombola/raffle. If you are interested in volunteering time or making a donation for next year's event please contact the Open Afternoon team on 020 7794 2313.
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| Forthcoming Events |
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Connecting Conversations
Quentin Blake in conversation with Avi Shmueli
One of the UK's best loved children's illustrators talks to psychoanalyst Avi Shmueli about the emotional power of images in story telling. Avi Shmueli is Head of Course for the MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre/University College London.
Sunday 8th February 2009 at the Anna Freud Centre
6.30-8.00pm
Tickets: £15/£10 concessions, £10 for Friends of the Freud Museum. Ticket price includes a glass of wine. Ticket just £10 if you join the Connecting Conversations mailing list (offer ends 31/12/2008).
You may also be interested in these other forthcoming Connecting Conversations Events:
Geraldine McCaughrean with Gerry Byrne, 6-7.30pm, The Anna Freud Centre, Sunday 7th December 2008
David Almond with Viviane Green, 5.30-7pm, Swiss Cottage Library, Sunday 11th January 2009
Image above reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. |
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Warm regards,
Peter Fonagy PhD FBA
Chief Executive, The Anna Freud Centre | |
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You are invited to an advanced preview screening of
'Defiance' |
| Featuring Daniel Craig and directed by Edward Zwick.
Thursday 8th January
8.15pm
The Odeon, Swiss Cottage, London
In Aid of The Anna Freud Centre
BOOK NOW!
Call 020 7794 2313 to pay by credit card or download a booking form from our website.
Tickets: £18 before 15th December (£20 thereafter)
Ticket price includes a glass of wine and free entry into our Golden Ticket Draw to win a Wii Fit!
Tickets are limited so book your seat now! |
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| AFC News in Brief |
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AFC on Radio 4
Minna Daum, a senior family therapist from the Anna Freud Centre was part of a discussion about the impact of favouritism on children and parents on Radio 4 Woman's Hour on Monday 22 September 2008.
Local Support from Waitrose Shoppers
The Anna Freud Centre was selected to take part in Waitrose Community Matters Scheme in September. The Centre was featured in store throughout the month and we received a donation of £282.50 from Waitrose. Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
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