Nine out of ten prisoners have at least one mental health or substance misuse in both the men’s and women’s prison populations awareness is growing around the high levels of trauma prisoners who are victims or survivors of sexual abuse.

This online event will offer counselling practitioners and leaders of third sector counselling services the opportunity to hear from experts and practitioners working with clients in prison who are survivors of sexual abuse.  

Presenters will give insights and knowledge that will challenge and encourage learners to reflect on the psychological support needs of people in prison and the value and impact that improving access to counselling can have for individuals, the prison estate, and our wider society. 

Event aims

This main aims of this event are to:

  • to enhance understanding of the psychological support prisoners need due to their separation and marginalisation from society
  • to identify the structural and cultural challenges of bringing therapy into prison
  • to share experience of effective delivery of counselling and psychological support in the prison estate
  • to demonstrate the impact and value of therapeutic interventions for prisoners and prisons
  • to inspire individual members and organisations to extend their practice into prisons

Programme

The event will begin at 9:30am and finish around 1:30pm.

Presentations will cover:
Improve access to pre-trial services for survivors of trauma in prison, presented by Emma Harewood & Gemma Halliwell

Behind the Door: An exploration of working therapeutically with male survivors of sexual abuse in the prison estate, presented by Alison Lloyd

The full programme will be available soon.

Key information

What’s included

Your booking includes:

  • approximately three hours of CPD presentations
  • a CPD certificate download
  • selected presentation slides
  • access to the on-demand service

Event information

The event will take place online on Wednesday 26 February 2025.

Joining instructions and the event link will be sent to the email linked to your BACP account 48 hours before the event.

On-demand

Access to the on-demand service, for three months after the event, is included in your booking. The service can be accessed an unlimited number of times, 24 hours a day.

The on-demand service will be available from Wednesday 26 February 2025 until Wednesday 28 May 2025.

Event sponsorship

To find out about sponsoring this event and other opportunities, please contact Josh Reed.