SHERA Research Group Domestic Abuse (DA) Island Discs Episode 1: Sam Beckinsale on LOVE?, trauma, Coercive Control, Secret Family Courts, Unregulated Experts & Pseudoscience of 'Parental Alienation'

Let's TALK Trauma Abuse Love Kindness with LGBTQI+ advocate, therapist and victim-survivor Dr Andrew Thomas Cicchetti

In this podcast Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno of SHERA Research Group and University of Manchester talks to LGBTQI+ advocate, therapist and victim-survivor Dr Andrew Thomas Cicchetti about his experiences as a gay man who has been subjected to coercive control*, his work as a Gestalt therapist/trauma coach, so-called 'parental alienation', domestic violence, his ground-breaking supreme court case in Brazil, his meeting with Maria da Penha, why the women's movement needs male allies, healing for women and children in the family court, his love of Christmas music and much more. His twitter can be accessed here: https://twitter.com/AndrewCicchett1 [https://twitter.com/AndrewCicchett1]. The paper on the health and trauma experiences of mothers in the Brazilian family court, led by Dr Dalgarno and team can be accessed freely here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2023.2285136 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2023.2285136] Follow SHERA Research here: https://twitter.com/SheraFamily [https://twitter.com/SheraFamily] SHERA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherafamily_/ [https://www.instagram.com/sherafamily_/] *Dr Cicchetti adds he alleges this This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com [https://drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Dr Saira Khan on the impact of Abuse and Trauma on Children

In this episode Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno, Director and Founder of SHERA discusses with Counselling Psychologist Dr Saira Khan the impact of Abuse and Trauma on Children. They talk all things Family Court and how the courts may be improved. Dr Khan covers the importance of professional understanding on neurodiversity, centring the voice of the child and shares her thoughts on resilience, post traumatic growth and overcoming adversity as a survivor herself. Saira's website: https://www.mendality.com/ [https://www.mendality.com/] Saira's thesis: Khan, S. (2020). Growth after intimate partner violence. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London) https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25701/1/Khan,%20Saira_PhD%20thesis_MAY%202020%20REDACTED%20docx_Redacted.pdf [https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25701/1/Khan,%20Saira_PhD%20thesis_MAY%202020%20REDACTED%20docx_Redacted.pdf] SHERA website: www.shera-research.com [http://www.shera-research.com] SHERA X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SheraFamily [https://twitter.com/SheraFamily] SHERA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherafamily_/ [https://www.instagram.com/sherafamily_/] Dr Andrew Cicchetti: https://twitter.com/AndrewCicchett1 [https://twitter.com/AndrewCicchett1] With music by Coca-Cola | A Kind of Magic | Karakoram x Eva B | Coke Studio Global https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77gdTpqVyg [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77gdTpqVyg] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com [https://drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Ruth Reymundo Mandel of Safe and Together Institute

Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno Chair and Founder of SHERA Research Group and Lecturer at University of Manchester is joined by Ruth Reymundo Mandel Stearns of Safe and Together Institute. Ruth Reymundo Mandel (Stearns) has been in training and implementation since 1995. She is dedicated to issues surrounding social justice and violence.  Drawing on her childhood experiences growing up in an abusive, religious cult and as a survivor she is a fierce advocate for those who have experienced abuse. She is dedicated to helping survivors and allies understand behavioural coping mechanisms arising out of trauma and mitigating societal and personal judgments surrounding common human responses to violence and harm. This transformative approach helps those who have experienced violence and their allies better understand how to support, nurture and nourish survivors in a common sense manner and without blame. Ruth is a great poet and artist and all around wonderful woman. In this episode they discuss the family courts, the importance of holding perpetrators of abuse accountable for their behaviour, partnering with survivors, healing from trauma through music and art and lots more. Ruth's art can be found here: https://twitter.com/survivorstrong3 [https://twitter.com/survivorstrong3] Ruth's chosen song Daffodil Lament by The Cranberries can be found in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNusXBCXBR4 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNusXBCXBR4] The partnered with a survivor podcast can be found here: https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/podcast/ [https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/podcast/] The Safe and Together Institute and perpetrator mapping tool can be found here: https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/ [https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/] For support resources visit our website: www.shera-research.com [http://www.shera-research.com] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com [https://drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

SHERA Research Group Domestic Abuse (DA) Island Discs Episode 1: Sam Beckinsale on LOVE?, trauma, Coercive Control, Secret Family Courts, Unregulated Experts & Pseudoscience of 'Parental Alienation'

Dr Elizabeth Dalgarno is a lecturer in global women's health and health systems challenges at University of Manchester. She is also the chair and founder of SHERA Research Group. SHERA Research Group is a collective of researchers and advocates based around the world working in medicine, health care, social care, law, finance, human rights, academia, therapeutic services and domestic abuse support organisations. SHERA is also home to an Expert by Experience Group of victim-survivor mothers, who co-design all our projects meaning all our work is by and for those who are impacted by violence and abuse. In SHERA's first podcast, Dr Dalgarno is joined by actor, producer, film maker, domestic abuse (DA) veteran and advocate Sam Beckinsale where they discuss Sam's journey into the DA sector, her film LOVE? about Coercive Control, the Secret Family Courts, Unregulated Experts, The Pseudoscience of 'Parental Alienation', child safeguarding, misogyny in the police and society and the power of music and art in healing from trauma. Support and other links mentioned in podcast: www.shera-research.com [http://www.shera-research.com] https://twitter.com/SheraFamily [https://twitter.com/SheraFamily] https://twitter.com/beckinsale_sam [https://twitter.com/beckinsale_sam] https://rightsofwomen.org.uk/ [https://rightsofwomen.org.uk/] LOVE? film: https://vimeo.com/720726737/c72ed1fe87 [https://vimeo.com/720726737/c72ed1fe87] Harms of family court videos: https://www.youtube.com/@sheraresearchgroup7723 [https://www.youtube.com/@sheraresearchgroup7723] https://broxtowewomensproject.org.uk/ [https://broxtowewomensproject.org.uk/] https://www.allie-crewe.uk/i-am [https://www.allie-crewe.uk/i-am] https://www.eida.org.uk/ [https://www.eida.org.uk/] https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/about-us/about-the-met/bcr/baroness-casey-review/ [https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/about-us/about-the-met/bcr/baroness-casey-review/] https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/ [https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/] https://twitter.com/menagainstvawg?lang=en [https://twitter.com/menagainstvawg?lang=en] https://www.whiteribbon.org.uk/ [https://www.whiteribbon.org.uk/] https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-03-22/debates/C99320D8-67DC-43AC-9D2A-5EC66F9AD2C2/FamilyCourtReformAndCAFCASS [https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-03-22/debates/C99320D8-67DC-43AC-9D2A-5EC66F9AD2C2/FamilyCourtReformAndCAFCASS] Dr Emma Katz Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coercive-control-in-childrens-and-mothers-lives-9780190922214?cc=gb&lang=en& [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coercive-control-in-childrens-and-mothers-lives-9780190922214?cc=gb&lang=en&]; Prof Jane Monckton-Smith book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-control/jane-monckton-smith/9781526613226 [https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-control/jane-monckton-smith/9781526613226] https://www.culturereframed.org/ [https://www.culturereframed.org/] (building resistance against hypersexualisation of children) https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/mapping-perpetrator-patterns-and-reasonable-person-standards-help-keep-child-safety-as-the-bottom-line-in-domestic-violence-cases/ [https://safeandtogetherinstitute.com/mapping-perpetrator-patterns-and-reasonable-person-standards-help-keep-child-safety-as-the-bottom-line-in-domestic-violence-cases/] https://www.womensaid.org.uk/ [https://www.womensaid.org.uk/] https://survivingeconomicabuse.org/ [https://survivingeconomicabuse.org/] Harm Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895173/assessing-risk-harm-children-parents-pl-childrens-cases-report_.pdf [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/895173/assessing-risk-harm-children-parents-pl-childrens-cases-report_.pdf] Melanie Gill Case: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/26/tighter-regulation-of-psychologists-in-family-law-cases-up-to-mps-says-senior-judge [https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/26/tighter-regulation-of-psychologists-in-family-law-cases-up-to-mps-says-senior-judge] Full judgement Re C: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Re-C-Parental-Alienation-judgment-220323.pdf [https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Re-C-Parental-Alienation-judgment-220323.pdf] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-abuse-act-2021 [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-abuse-act-2021] Government Rejection of 'Parental Alienation': https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/domestic-abuse-act-statutory-guidance/outcome/domestic-abuse-act-2021-statutory-guidance-consultation-government-response-accessible [https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/domestic-abuse-act-statutory-guidance/outcome/domestic-abuse-act-2021-statutory-guidance-consultation-government-response-accessible] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlling-or-coercive-behaviour-statutory-guidance-framework] https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/professionals/ciaf/ [https://www.cafcass.gov.uk/grown-ups/professionals/ciaf/] Gloria Gaynor, I will survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com [https://drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]