Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Shaun McCarthy, Barrister, State Chambers
Professional Skills
Psychiatric Injury in Abuse Claims
Understanding the impact on the developing brain and personality when a child is abused. Practical advice on engaging a psychiatrist in an historical abuse claim including
- Process of assessment in historical sexual abuse cases beginning with the letter of instruction
- Analysis of the documents provided
- The critical elements of the assessment process
Presented by Associate Professor Carolyn Quadrio, School of Psychiatry, University of NSW
Presenters
Shaun McCarthy, Barrister, State Chambers
Shaun McCarthy was called to the Bar in 1999 and currently practices out of State Chambers. He has practiced in insurance law/personal injury law from 1999 to present, equally representing the interests of defendants and plaintiffs. Shaun has conducted hundreds of personal injury trials and over a dozen appeals as sole or lead counsel. He has been briefed in hundreds of historical abuse cases and has run notable cases to completion including SR v Trustees of the De La Salle Brothers 2023 NSWSC 66, Peters v Trustees of the Marist Brothers2022 NSWSC 475 and EXV v Uniting Church (Australia) Property Trust [2024] NSWSC 490 (2 May 2024). He has delivered seminars in this field on a range of topics including vicarious liability and permanent stays. In this field Shaun has acted for many hundreds of plaintiffs, together with Anglican Dioceses, the State of NSW, Catholic entities based in Rome, public and private schools, child care centres, private children’s institutions, local councils and direct defendants and/or cross defendants. Shaun has a special interest in defending fraud claims in historical abuse claims.
Associate Professor Carolyn Quadrio, School of Psychiatry, University of NSW
Associate Professor Carolyn Quadrio is an Australian psychiatrist and recipient of the 2024 Medal of the Order of Australia award for her "significant service to psychiatry". An Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, she is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP). She has made significant contributions to both fields of Psychiatry and Family Therapy. In 1989, she co-founded and coordinated the Masters of Psychotherapy postgraduate program at University of New South Wales collaborating with The Prince of Wales Hospital. Her research spans from women's mental health to feminism and gender analysis of psychiatry in Australia. She is also known for working against the abuse of children especially in religious institutions, the long-term sequelae of childhood sexual abuse, and psychiatric issues in domestic violence. Apart from academic researches, She is a therapist, educator, advocate on injustice and ethical issues as well as boundary violations.
