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Name:

C Foster

Email:

C.M.Foster@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Health & Society

Organisation:

University of Salford

Address:

School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work and Social Science College of Health and Social Care Mary Seacole Building Fredrick Road Salford M6 6PU

Country:

United Kingdom

Homepage:

http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/CFoster.jsp

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Biography

Expertise:

Adolescence, Mental Health nursing, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Self harm and suicide, developmental trauma, medically unexplained symptoms, CAMHs

Job title:

Senior Lecturer Mental Health

Biography:

Celeste has been a lecturer-practitioner in at the University of Salford since 2004 during which time she was the programme leader for the MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She joined the School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work and Social Science as a full time lecturer in mental health in February 2013. Prior to that, her clinical role was Service Lead and Lead Nurse for the Liverpool 16-18yrs Specialist Mental Health team and Assistant Clinical Service Group Lead for Liverpool Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, part of Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Celeste currently maintains her clinical practice through an honorary contract to develop psychodynamic interventions for patients and staff consultation in a Regional Adolescent Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and through the the provision of group and individual supervision for practitioners within the NHS and the voluntary sector. In November 2013 Celeste was awarded a University of Salford Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Scholarship to undertake research into the impact of her work developing a psychodynamic nursing development group within an adolescent psychiatric intensive care unit Celeste is a registered Mental Health Nurse and an adolescent psychotherapist (registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reg.MBACP), who has been working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) since 1995. In this time she has worked across a range of Community, Day, Inpatient and Specialist Services for young people in clinical, managerial, development and educator roles. Throughout her career, Celeste has developed a strong interest and area of expertise relating to adolescent mental health and its relationship with the ‘adolescent body’, which includes self harm and suicide and medically unexplained symptoms. In 2008, Celeste graduated from the Tavistock Clinic Adolescent Department/ University of East London with an MA with Distinction in Psychoanalytic Interventions with Adolescents. Her main interests are psychoanalytic approaches to working with adolescents and their professional networks in relation to self-harm, complex psychosomatic presentations and developmental trauma; and higher education curriculum and workforce development in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

Qualifications:

2014 Fellow of The Higher Education Academy 2012 Professional standards for BACP national registration Certificate of Proficiency to Practice (Psychotherapy) (from British Association Counselling and Psychotherapy).Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care. 2008 MA Psychoanalytic Interventions with Adolescents (from Adolescent Dept. Tavistock Clinic/ University of East London). 2007 Registered Teacher (from Nursing and Midwifery Council). 2006 Post Graduate Certificate Higher Education Practice and Research (from University of Salford). 2000 DipHE Registered Mental Health Nurse (from University of Manchester/ Nursing & Midwifery Council). 1996 BSc.(Hons)Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology (from University of Manchester).

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	Self harm and suicide amongst children and young people in Knowsley a collaborative workforce development project in partnership with Knowsley council and Knowsley clinical Commissioning Group	533	1264
2.	Self harm and suicide amongst children & young people in Knowsley : a collaborative workforce development project in partnership with Knowsley Council & Knowsley Clinical Commissioning Group	421
3.	Examining the needs of paediatric nurses caring for children and young people presenting with self-harm/suicidal behaviour on general paediatric wards : findings from a small-scale study	406
4.	Investigating the nature of mental health nursing within an Adolescent Psychiatric Intensive Care unit : identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of Young People	363	975
5.	Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm	332	565
6.	Adolescents in acute mental distress on inpatient pediatric settings : some reflections from a pediatric liaison practitioner	297
7.	Teaching age and discrimination : a life course perspective	284	1
8.	Emotional and mental health [Part 6]. Case 2 : a young woman with anorexia nervosa'	269
9.	Evaluating the Impact of Cheshire East Emotionally Health Schools Pilot Project. Midpoint Report: early Findings	226	245
10.	Evaluating the impact of Cheshire East Emotionally Health Schools Pilot Project. Research report April 2017	164	135

My Latest

Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 2021, 'Children living with long term conditions - child and adolescent mental health : the nursing response' , in: A Textbook of Children and Young People's Nursing. 3rd Edition , Elsevier.
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 2020, 'Investigating the impact of a psychoanalytic nursing development group within an adolescent psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU)' , Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 34 (6) , pp. 481-491.
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 2020, Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental health needs in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursing identity, task and intervention , PhD thesis, University of Salford.
Foster, CM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419, Collier, EH, Sutton, K, Holmes, T and Jones, BD 2020, Changing student mental health nurses attitudes towards younger and older people through teaching : a qualitative longitudinal study , Project Report, University of Salford. (Unpublished)
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 and Smedley, K 2019, 'Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 1. Identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of young people' , Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 15 (2) , pp. 87-102.
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 and Smedley, K 2019, 'Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 2. Staff experience and support needs' , Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 15 (2) , pp. 103-115.
Bluff, L, Brettle, AJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4120-1752, Bullen-Foster, C, Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 and Lamph, G 2019, Core24 multi‐professional liaison mental health training programme : development, implementation and evaluation , Project Report, University of Salford. (Unpublished)
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 2018, 'Investigating professional quality of life in nursing staff working in adolescent psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs)' , The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice, 14 (1) , pp. 59-71.
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419, Rayner, GC and Allen, ML ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-170X 2017, Evaluating the impact of Cheshire East Emotionally Health Schools Pilot Project. Research report April 2017 , Project Report, University of Salford.
Foster, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-5419 and Benson, J 2016, 'Emotional and mental health [Part 6]. Case 2 : a young woman with anorexia nervosa'' , in: Children's Nursing Case Book , Case Book Series , Open University Press, Berkshire.