Cybertrauma: risks of internet use for children and young people
Date
27.01.2026 18:00 - 19:30 online über ZOOM
Course type
Seminar
Scope
2 Lessons
Cost
€ 53,-
€ 26,- for students
only with Mat.no email address!
Completion
certificate of participation
Window of Opportunity for PTW students
Language
English
Registration
Registration Deadline
27.01.2026 13:00
Inhalt
If you know a child who uses the online space then this lecture is for you. You will learn about the why of online behaviour and what risks this can lead children and young people into when engaing with technology spaces, applications and people and now bots!Keywords: #cybertrauma
Lecture series by the Forum Psychosomatics and E-Mental Health
The presentation will address the issues of risk that children encounter when using digital technology and will include child development, attachment and trauma as the underlying motivations for such behaviours. In the presentation the impact of cybertrauma will be explored in relation to the online harms encountered and how this synthesises with the risks taken. Discussions will take place about how to support children and adults with the impact of cybertrauma and how to use theory of cybertrauma to support a system around children and how this can become a therapeutic plan for recovery, development and resilience.
Main Topics
- E-ttachment and why our ways of connecting have changed
- Child development in a world of technology
- Risk, dangers and what to do as professionals when children face harms online
Targets
- Participants will learn about the changes to attachment processes
- Child deelopment in a world of technology and what has changed since 1993
- Waht to do when a child has been harmed
Methodology
Lecture + questions from the plenum afterwards
Target Group
psychologists, psychotherapists, psychological counsellors, physicians, people from the health care system, interested parties
Speaker
Catherine Knibbs
CEO/Director of Children and Tech
Human Behaviour Technologist and Ethicist. Consultant
Psychotherapist, Author and Trainer