Carolyn Quadrio

Carolyn Quadrio is Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. She practises in Psychotherapy and Trauma and as a Forensic and Child and Family Psychiatrist. She was formerly Director of Mental Health Services with Corrections Health Service in New South Wales. She is well known for her research into sexual abuse in fiduciary relationships and has assessed hundreds of cases of persons who were abused by teachers, clergy and in institutional care as children. Her current interest is in the role of childhood trauma in relationship to adult psychiatric dysfunction and domestic violence and its impact on children.

Prof Quadrio will present on the long-term psychiatric sequelae of childhood abuse and trauma and will conceptualise this in terms of the neurophysiological and psychobiological impact on the developing brain and psyche.