Supporting Adolescent Development with Liz Fordham

Saturday 11th October 2025, 10am to 12.30pm

In person at the Donald McIntyre Building, 84 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

Liz is an alumna of our Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counselling Programme and is currently an EdD student nearing the end of her studies. Her current research is focused on the role that educators can play in supporting students as they navigate the developmental challenges brought about by puberty.

The focus of this presentation will be to discuss an alternative perspective on adolescent development, in which puberty is considered not just a stage, but in fact a point of rupture of the adolescent’s sense of being a child and a 're-birth' into a ’new me’. The physical, neurobiological, behavioural, emotional and cognitive changes that take place to evidence this will be explained.

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