C Foster

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.