Words Matter: Impact and Prevention of Childhood Verbal Abuse
11 April 2024, 10:00 am–5:00 pm

Located online via Zoom livestream.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Psychoanalysis Unit
About
Childhood verbal abuse can result in substantial harmful impacts on children’s social-emotional development that can have long-term mental and physical health impacts throughout their lifetime. While substantial attention and investments have been made toward the prevention of childhood sexual and physical abuse, demonstrating significant declines in their prevalence, there is currently no such focus given to childhood verbal abuse, which is highly pervasive.
This one-day event with the World Health Organization's (WHO) UK-based Collaborating Centres in Violence Prevention and Investment in Health and Wellbeing, together with University College London’s (UCL) Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, will bring together presentations from global experts in the study of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), neuroscience, developmental psychology, and public health to elucidate and promote discussions on unifying definitions, impact, societal cost burden, and prevention.
The event will be chaired by Professor Peter Fonagy, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, and Dr Manasi Kumar, Research Professor at the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
All parts of the programme will be streamed online via Zoom and be in English only.
- Registration
Registration is required to attend*. Registration will close at 09:00 GMT 11th April 2024.
Further information will be circulated closer to the date of the event, but please feel free to get in touch with events.psychoanalysis@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions in the meantime.
*As part of registering for this event, the participant agrees to all registration details being shared with Words Matter (Registered Charity Number 1201281)
Recordings
After the event itself a recording of the conference will be available to registered participants (on request) for 4 weeks