Speaker

Dr Wendy Bunston OAM
Adjunct Lecturer, Social Work & Social Policy
Latrobe University

Practice workshop, Day 2

Infants and families in care: bringing the infant and child alive in the minds of parents, workers and the system when working with domestic and family violence, from conception onwards

About

Dr Wendy Bunston OAM is a fully qualified social worker, family therapist and infant mental health practitioner. She has worked in community and mental health for over 30 years. She became a private consultant in 2012, providing clinical supervision to multiple counselling, early years, and crisis services agencies within Victoria and throughout Australia. She continues her therapeutic work with infants, children, and families through her consultative role with specialist services, often directly meeting clients of these agencies for a “one off” or “brief” therapeutic consultation in collaboration with their key worker.   

Wendy is also an international author, presenter, researcher and clinician specialising in working therapeutically with infants and their families impacted by family trauma. Wendy’s PhD on the experience of infants in women’s refuges won the distinguished Nancy Millis award in 2016 and was a finalist in the highly prestigious 2019 Victorian Premier’s Health and Medical Research Awards. In 2017 her first international book, Helping Babies and Children to Heal after Family Violence, was published. Her most recent book, Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children, co-edited with Sarah J Jones, is published by UK publishers Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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