Special Interest Groups & Practice Development Groups

The Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma aims to bring healthcare professionals, academics and those with lived experience who are involved in the development or delivery of care and trauma treatment of people with trauma needs. As part of this mission, the CDCT operates a portfolio of Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

We have three Special Interest Groups available to join:

Moral Injury SIG
Trauma and Personality Needs SIG
Meeting the Trauma Needs of Deaf People SIG

Moral Injury SIG

The CDCT hosts an established ‘special interest group’ (SIG) for academics, clinicians, researchers and others with an interest in moral injury.

Moral injury is commonly understood as the distress that arises when a person either directly engages in, or learns about, witnesses and/or fails to prevent behaviours of others which conflict with their own values and beliefs about what is right.

Trauma and Personality Disorder Needs SIG

Moving beyond debates relating to diagnostic labels, this SIG focuses on improving the experiences and outcomes of people who are described as having current trauma and personality related needs.

Meeting the Trauma Needs of Deaf People SIG

The psychological trauma needs of deaf people are poorly understood. This SIG is co-hosted by the CDCT, St Andrew's Deaf Service, and The Deaf Health Charity Sign Health. The meetings are hosted online via Zoom and will focus on meeting the trauma needs of deaf people.

Objectives of the SIGs

The objectives of these forum are:

Learning and sharing: to share best practice, explore the latest research, and discuss challenges to meeting the needs of service users and staff groups.
Networking and collaborating: using the meeting to build up our networks and work together with clinical and research collaborations.
Respecting each other: As a forum supporting people of different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, and encourage sharing in a safe environment based on mutual respect and trust.

The SIGs are available to join free of charge and have been set up for clinicians and other professionals, academics and researchers, students, people with lived experience and others, to network in areas of shared interest. Members receive a bi-annual newsletter and invites to the SIG meetings.

The SIGs attract an international audience with members across three groups from 14 countries. This is inclusive of all regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland, North America, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, China, Australia and New Zealand.

How to join

Please follow the link to the CDCT Membership, Special Interest and working groups registration form.

Or click on the box on the right hand side to scan the QR code.

For any queries regarding membership of the SIGs please email cdct@stah.org.

CDCT Membership, SIGs & working groups Registration Form QR code

CDCT Membership SIG QR Code