Psychiatry & Psychology Health

Biography

Biography: Sue Cornbluth

Abstract

There are millions of children all across this world who suffer or have suffered some form of child abuse; whether that be physical, sexual, neglect or emotional. Research tells us that due to this abuse, 80 % of these children can suffer attachment disorders as they grow older. (Leavy & Orleans 2014). This means that due to abusive relationships, children without proper help to heal will most likely end up in unhealthy adult relationships. More importantly, children lacking secure attachments are at a high risk of growing up to be parents who are incapable of establishing a secure connection with their children. Healthy parent child relationships are the cornerstone of strong developmental growth. When neglect or emotional and physical abuse occurs, the parent and child relationship can become very complicated and at times even severed.

In this keynote speech Dr. Sue talks about inspiring abused and neglected children to reach their full potential by helping them to see that they are more than the abuse they have suffered. Dr. Sue shares her personal story of helping a 16 year old abused foster child overcome low self esteem , physical abuse and self hatred to become a graduate of college and a successful mother.   Fourteen years later, this young woman wrote the forward for Dr. Sue's new bestselling book, "Building-Self esteem in Children and Teens Who Are Adopted or Fostered."  Dr. Sue also talks about how professionals are the "catalyst" to helping abused and neglected children move to a successful place in their lives in her speech.  She shares her 3 Tier- Empowerment-Model that was based on her ground breaking research with abused children which is used by professionals worldwide to help abused and neglected children raise their self esteem.