Apologies for the derail, and I am as concerned about the Prostasia Foundation as others here, but the claim that Michael Salter is a hero of child protection and safeguarding cannot go unchallenged
Readers might be interested to know that the controversial academic and promoter of conspiracy theories relating to "satanic ritual abuse” (SRA), Professor Michael Slater of ITSSD notoriety presented various conspiracy themed presenters and modules at an SRA promoting conspirathon in London UK on 5th March 2020
details as follows:
A Day With Professor Michael Salter
5 March 2020 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Centre for Child Mental Health
We are excited to announce our 2020 Regional Conference in London, UK! Join ISSTD for this one-day conference featuring presentations by Michael Salter, PhD, along with Margot Sunderland, Adah Sachs, Kathryn Livingston, Mark Linington, Sue Richardson, Valerie Sinason, and Nancy Borrett!
:30am-10:00am Registration Open
9:45am-10:00am Introductions and Welcome – Dr Margot Sunderland and Dr Adah Sachs
10:00am-11:15am Organized Child Sexual Abuse: The Contemporary Picture
11:15am-11:45pm Coffee Break
11:45pm-12:45pm Child Sexual Abuse Material: Production, Distribution and Consumption
12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch (Provided)
1:45pm-3:00pm Ritual Abuse, Prolonged Incest and the Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Violence
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Small Discussion Groups
4:30pm-5:00pm Final Plenary
Meet our Speakers!
Dr Michael Salter is a Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales. His research is focused on child abuse and gendered violence, including primary prevention, complex trauma and technologically-facilitated abuse. He is the author of two books, Organised Sexual Abuse (Routledge, 2013) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (Routledge, 2017), and a range of papers on child abuse and gendered violence. A/Prof Salter sits on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, who awarded him the 2018 Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Child Abuse Review and expert advisor to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.
Joining Michael Salter will be:
Dr Margot Sunderland, Director of the Centre for Child Mental Health
Dr Adah Sachs, ISSTD, writer and attachment based consultant psychotherapist
Kathryn Livingston BEM, Trainer and Voluntary Co-ordinator First Person Plural
Mark Linington, Clinical Director, Clinic for Dissociative Studies
Dr Elly Hanson, psychologist researcher, clinical advisor to CEOP
Sue Richardson, attachment-based psychotherapist and a founder member of ESTD-UK
Valerie Sinason, ISSTD, consultant psychotherapist, Founder and Patron, Clinic for Dissociative Studies
Nancy Borrett, Consultant Psychotherapist, Clinic for Dissociative Studies
Preliminary Program
9:30am-10:00am Registration Open
9:45am-10:00am Introductions and Welcome – Dr Margot Sunderland and Dr Adah Sachs
10:00am-11:15am Organized Child Sexual Abuse: The Contemporary Picture
11:15am-11:45pm Coffee Break
11:45pm-12:45pm Child Sexual Abuse Material: Production, Distribution and Consumption
12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch (Provided)
1:45pm-3:00pm Ritual Abuse, Prolonged Incest and the Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Violence
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Small Discussion Groups
4:30pm-5:00pm Final Plenary
Session 1
Presentation Title: Organized Child Sexual Abuse: The Contemporary Picture
Chair: Kathryn Livingston
Presenter: Michael Salter
Discussant: Mark Linington
Summary: This session will discuss the current state of knowledge about organised forms of child sexual abuse. After a brief history of debates over organised abuse, the session will examine the most common scenarios of organised abuse, and the increasing role of technology in child sexual exploitation. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and professionals, as well as public policy analysis, the session will identify current obstacles to the prevention and detection of organised abuse and the wellbeing and safety of survivors, and lay out a program of policy reform and advocacy.
Session 2
Presentation Title: Child Sexual Abuse Material: Production, Distribution and Consumption
Chair: Elly Hanson
Presenter: Michael Salter
Summary: This session will focus on the current epidemic of online child sexual abuse material and its implications for organised abuse victims and survivors. The session will present research findings based on image analysis of historical and contemporary CSAM, ‘dark web’ offender discourse and surveys of adult CSAM survivors. The complex role of governments, police, non-government organisations and technology companies in the response to CSAM will be outlined, with a focus on the need for significant legal and industry reform. The implications of CSAM for the treatment of survivors will be emphasised.
Session 3
Presentation Title: Ritual Abuse, Prolonged Incest and the Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Violence
Chair: Valerie Sinason
Presenter: Michael Salter
Discussant: Sue Richardson
Summary: This session will present a theoretical model to understand the intergenerational transmission of sexual violence within families. While intergenerational trauma is now the subject of an expanding evidence base, the normalisation of sexual violence within family networks has been largely overlooked. This session draws together evidence of parental involvement in CSAM and sexual exploitation, the persistence of familial sexual abuse into adulthood, and the role of ritual in familial cultures of abuse, and suggests that object relations theory can assist us in understanding the reproduction of sexual violence in families over generations.
Session 4
Presentation Title: Small Discussion Groups & Final Plenary
Presenters: Michael Salter, Mark Linington, Sue Richardson, Adah Sachs, Valerie Sinason, and Nancy Borrett
Summary: Small discussion groups will be convened by Mark Linington, Sue Richardson, Adah Sachs, Valerie Sinason and Nancy Borrett, followed by final comments and questions for Michael Salter and other discussants.
Conference Venue
The Centre for Child Mental Health
Brittania Row, Islington, London N1
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Readers familiar with SRA related conspiracy theories and the infiltration of SRA promoting quacks into mental health services will recognise some of the most notorious and deluded quacks attending this event, including Elly Hanson aka Elly Farmer one of Carl Beech's therapists.