Aims & Objectives
AIMS:
- Understanding the benefits to carers and the children in care of reflective practice.
- Learning about attachment difficulties, the effects of trauma and abuse and the long term implications for child and carer.
- How to use supervision (through peers and managers) to consider compassion fatigue and reflection on how to not see this as a weakness.
- Consideration of your role in offering therapeutic parenting to children and young people.
OBJECTIVES:
Following this course you will:
- Feel equipped to refine and improve your fostering approach.
- Learn how to use reflection to inform changes in behaviour.
- Gain confidence in your ability to improve outcomes for your foster child. Understand how reflective parenting helps children in care improve their own emotional wellbeing.
- Have the tools you need to practise this daily.
- Feel able to recognise when you need support and to have the confidence to ask for it