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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Three commissions All New House Of Tiny Tearaways
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This press release was updated on 22.10.2007 to reflect the programme's new title, All New House Of Tiny Tearaways and updated programme information.
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All New House Of Tiny Tearaways returns to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Three this autumn with an all new season, providing more innovative advice and assistance to end-of-their-tether parents trying to tame their troublesome tykes.
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Having already broken the mould of the traditional parenting programme, All New House Of Tiny Tearaways, presented by Claudia Winkleman, herself a mother of two – begins this autumn with a range of brand new elements set to grip viewers across the nation.
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Each one-hour episode of All New House Of Tiny Tearaways focuses on the activity in the house. Based in an idyllic new rural location, the house is open for business as a home away from home for young families in need.
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This time parents must be prepared to do whatever it takes, and stay as long as it takes, to get their beleaguered relationships back on track, as the programme's experts observe the children's behaviour around the clock.
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Claudia Winkleman is joined by top child psychologists Laverne Antrobus and Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, who will work together to bring a fresh approach to solving parenting problems.
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They bring new insights to this series, as they weather the tears and tantrums and enforce tough love with the families each step of the way. And as viewers know – it's never just about the kids!
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One half of the new team is Consultant Child and Educational Psychologist Laverne Antrobus (Little Angels, Teen Angels). A senior psychologist with London's Tavistock Clinic, Laverne focuses on treating primary-age children with complex social, emotional, behavioural, academic, and psychiatric difficulties.
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With years of clinical experience, she works with parents helping them to manage their children's needs through family work, individual work and work with groups of parents. She is a mum of three, and has just published her first book aimed at helping parents understand and handle their children's behaviour.
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Working alongside Laverne will be Dr Elizabeth Kilbey. As a Chartered Clinical Child Psychologist, Elizabeth has worked with young people and their families with a range of complex developmental and emotional problems.
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She specialises in working with parents of children under five, in particular running therapeutic groups focusing on behavioural management issues such as tantrums, sleeping and eating problems. She is married with two young children.
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All New House Of Tiny Tearaways aims to help young families work through the parenting problems that plague them – situations that would baffle even the hardiest mums and dads. The problems tackled will range from lack of sleep and refusal to eat, to full-on tantrums, violent behaviour and dysfunctional behaviour.
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This season will see challenging stories of children with uncontrollable behaviour, mothers totally losing control and unmanageable jealousy. It will also feature teenage families for the first time, as well as very young families coping with multiple births.
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Notes to Editors
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Elizabeth Kilbey
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Dr Elizabeth Kilbey (30) gained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Salomons Centre at Canturbury Christ Church College, following a foundation certificate in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy and an MSc in Child Development.
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Elizabeth has a specialist interest in working with children under five, their families and wider networks. She also has a strong background in complex neuron-developmental assessment, with a particular emphasis on the use and interpretation of a wide range of psychometric tests with children with severe and life limiting difficulties, including children eligible for neurosurgery and intractable epilepsy.
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She is a clinical supervisor for trainee psychologists completing the doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and lectures on under-fives on the doctoral training course.
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Elizabeth takes the clinical lead around understanding and managing autistic spectrum disorders – specialist assessments for children and training/workshops for parents, colleagues and other professionals.
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Laverne Antrobus
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Psychologist, consultant, lecturer and TV presenter Laverne Antrobus has 14 years' experience working with children and adolescents with complex emotional, behavioural and psychiatric difficulties.
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She also helps parents/carers to manage their children's needs, through family work, individual work and work with groups of parents.
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Working with prestigious centres such as the Tavistock Clinic, she is also a clinical supervisor on the Doctorate in Educational Psychology course and is Consultant Psychologist at two specialist residential schools.
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As well as presenting TV shows such as Little Angels and Teen Terrors To Teen Angels, Laverne gives presentations at specialist conferences and is a guest speaker at public meetings on a variety of issues such as 'Helping Your Child To Learn' and 'Coping With Bullying'.
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In addition to writing for the Tavistock Clinic series of books, Laverne contributes monthly to Prima Baby, where she responds to readers' questions about their children's psychological development.
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Teaming up with community mental health workers in South Africa, Laverne travels to Johannesburg twice a year to support the development of child and family mental health work. She is a committee member of the charity that supports this project.
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Laverne lives with her partner, two daughters aged 13 and 10, and her son aged 9.
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