Lisa Cherry est une autrice spécialisée dans le traumatisme, le rétablissement et la résilience pour les enfants vulnérables et leurs familles. Forte de près de 30 ans d'expérience, elle combine connaissances académiques, compétences professionnelles et perspectives personnelles. Ses recherches portent sur l'impact de l'exclusion scolaire sur les adultes ayant une expérience de placement, explorant actuellement comment les récits d'exclusion façonnent leurs identités. Un axe central de son travail est une approche interdisciplinaire visant à améliorer les résultats pour les enfants dépendants de relations extérieures au foyer.
In this poignant book, Lisa Cherry brings together a collection of candid and personal reflections on the care system in the UK, offering alternative ways of thinking about the care experience, supporting better ways of working, and providing justification for a trauma-informed lens to be applied to all forms of work with those in care.
In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in conversations on a range of pertinent topics and issues affecting children and young people today. Divided into three main parts, which introduce attachment, adversity and trauma, each discussion places an emphasis on emotion and the understanding that we have as humans for compassion, empathy and connection. By encouraging collaboration between sectors and exploring a range of intersecting themes, the conversations take the reader on a winding journey to broaden their depth of thinking, reflect on their practice and to consider the central that we can bring about social change, one interaction at a time. This book is a call to action and an opportunity to look around and decide what kind of service we want to provide, what kind of community we want to live in and what sort of legacy we want to leave. At a time of ever-present social and political challenges, this book will stimulate conversations on current practice and professional development for the future and is a must-read for everyone working with children and young people.