Presentations

We have given many presentations to professional audiences regarding the Resolutions approach to working with families, including

  1. British Association for the Study and Prevention of Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) Congress in 1994
  2. The Economic and Social Research Council in 1997
  3. Family Law Bar Association at Cumberland Lodge in May 1998
  4. Western Circuit Family Proceedings Conference in September 1998 at Dartington Hall
  5. National Council for Family Proceedings Conference at the Tavistock Clinic, London in December 1998
  6. Family Law Bar Association & Solicitors Family Law Association at Leeds in November 2000
  7. The New Bristol Family Forum in January 2002.
  8. The Iscoed Chambers Family Law Lecture, November 2003.
  9. South West Family Therapy Association, December 2004 (workshop)
  10. AFT Annual Conference, September 2005 (workshop).
  11. "Understanding Child Protection Errors" - National Conference Centre, London 24th May 2006.
  12. “Protecting the Child” (for lawyers) at Hatton Garden Conference Centre, London 13th February 2007
  13. Kent Family Justice Council Conference – 22nd November 2007
  14. Association of Lawyers for Children National Conference – 20th November 2009

Andrew Turnell - Working with denied child abuse

Publications

Essex, S., Gumbleton, J. and Luger, C., Resolutions: working with families where responsibility for abuse is denied, Child Abuse Review, 1996, Vol. 5, p191-202.

Lusk, A., Rehabilitation without acknowledgement, Family Law, Dec 1996 Vol 26, p742-745.

Essex, S., Gumbleton, J., Luger, C. and Lusk A, A suitable case for treatment?, Community Care, 20-26 February 1997, Issue 1159.

Essex, S., Gumbleton, J., and Luger, C., Place of Safety?, Community Care, 23-29 July 1998, Issue 1232.

Essex, S., Gumbleton, J., “Similar but Different” Conversations, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 1999, Vol. 20, No 3.

Gumbleton, J., Untreatable Families? Working with denial in cases of severe child abuse, MSc Dissertation, Unpublished. 1997.

Gumbleton, J. and Lusk, A., Child Abuse: Rehabilitation without Admission - A New Way Forward, Family Law, Dec 1999, Vol 29, p822-825.

Gumbleton, J, (2004) The re-unification of children in serious child protection cases, Context, no. 74, pp 2-5.

Gumbleton, J, Presumed Guilty, Community Care, 13 – 19 January 2005, Issue 1555.

Turnell, A. & Essex, S, (2006) Working with Denied Child Abuse: The Resolutions Approach, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.

Hiles M & Luger C, The Resolutions Approach: Working with Denial in Child Protection Cases, Journal of Systemic Therapies, 2006, Volume 25.

Hiles M., Essex S., Fox A., and Luger C, (2008) The ‘words and pictures’ storyboard: making sense for children and families, Context no 97, June.

Gumbleton, J, “Rehabilitation – A Postcode Lottery?”, Family Law Week, 17th March 2008