This training course covers a range of techniques for effective listening and communication for children, including helping children to express themselves. It is aimed specifically at children in care. The course can be delivered in four days or broken into modular form. The sessions cover: attachment and trauma, managing difficult feelings and making good assessments, building a positive self-esteem and starting a life history journey, moving and re-attachment. The pack consists of: training course, CD-ROM of presentations and handouts, a course handbook; and a techniques CD-ROM containing strategies, activities and techniques for direct work with children. An accompanying handbook is also available. The pack is particularly relevant for social workers, family support workers, foster carers and adoptive parents.
This training course covers a range of techniques for effective listening and communication for children, including helping children to express themselves. It is aimed specifically at children in care. The course can be delivered in four days or broken into modular form. The sessions cover: attachment and trauma, managing difficult feelings and making good assessments, building a positive self-esteem and starting a life history journey, moving and re-attachment. The pack consists of: training course, CD-ROM of presentations and handouts, a course handbook; and a techniques CD-ROM containing strategies, activities and techniques for direct work with children. An accompanying handbook is also available. The pack is particularly relevant for social workers, family support workers, foster carers and adoptive parents.
Subject terms:
life story work, self-esteem, traumas, adopted children, attachment, children, communication, foster children;
The foster carer is seen to have a primary role in engaging with the child in supporting their learning. This training programme has been designed to help carers support the education of children in their care. The course aims to help carers to understand the processes involved in learning, learn how they can try to create an environment in their home which is conducive to learning, support and encourage the development of social and emotional skills underpinning abilities to learn, develop understanding of the education system and their role within this, and learn how they can support their children's literacy skills. The programme is designed as a group-based learning environment for foster carers who care for children aged between 5 and 11 years, and focuses specifically on the development of reading skills. This book for trainers provides details of the programme, including reproductions of the PowerPoint presentations for each session, suggested training exercises, and suggested discussion questions which the trainer can raise with the group. It includes a supporting CD-ROM and DVD.
The foster carer is seen to have a primary role in engaging with the child in supporting their learning. This training programme has been designed to help carers support the education of children in their care. The course aims to help carers to understand the processes involved in learning, learn how they can try to create an environment in their home which is conducive to learning, support and encourage the development of social and emotional skills underpinning abilities to learn, develop understanding of the education system and their role within this, and learn how they can support their children's literacy skills. The programme is designed as a group-based learning environment for foster carers who care for children aged between 5 and 11 years, and focuses specifically on the development of reading skills. This book for trainers provides details of the programme, including reproductions of the PowerPoint presentations for each session, suggested training exercises, and suggested discussion questions which the trainer can raise with the group. It includes a supporting CD-ROM and DVD.
Subject terms:
literacy, training materials, education, educational performance, foster carers, foster children;
This workbook, published by the BritishAssociation for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), and the accompanying Channel 4 training film, Preparing Families, aim to address the gap between what adopters and foster carers want when looking for children and the type of children who need new families. This mismatch disadvantages disabled children and older complex children. Black and minority ethnic
This workbook, published by the BritishAssociation for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), and the accompanying Channel 4 training film, Preparing Families, aim to address the gap between what adopters and foster carers want when looking for children and the type of children who need new families. This mismatch disadvantages disabled children and older complex children. Black and minority ethnic children are also disadvantaged. It is argued that, with creative assessment and preparation, prospective families can be given the confidence to consider, and adopt or foster, a much wider range of children. The book starts with an exploration of various models of assessment, through issues of preparation and matching, to the assessor’s role in gate-keeping, observation and what to do about feeling intrusive and dealing with those “gut feelings”. `The reader is then guided towards a series of filmed exercises. The aim of the training film is to showcase new training techniques and exercises which encourage adopters and foster carers to consider children for whom it is hard to find families by providing more information about these children, offering hand-on care opportunities, and boosting the applicants confidence so they realise they could cope with children they might not previously have considered. It is acknowledged that some of the exercises are controversial and ambitious.
Subject terms:
placement, social work methods, training, adoption, adoptive parents, assessment, attitudes, case studies, foster care, foster carers, foster children;
For both children and carers it is essential to manage transitions well and prevent them from turning into destructive endings. For this to happen, carers need and deserve the best help available. Agencies owe it to carers to prepare them as well as possible. This course aims to help carers help traumatised children and themselves to face change and loss in a managed and constructive way. Understanding the effects of transitions and endings can give carers an insight into why these times may be so difficult. It can help carers to manage their own feelings of loss and grief, and give them the knowledge to help a child to successfully come through the changes facing him or her. Subjects covered include the importance of attachment and resilience, trauma and the impact of secondary traumatic stress, and promoting and managing constructive endings.
For both children and carers it is essential to manage transitions well and prevent them from turning into destructive endings. For this to happen, carers need and deserve the best help available. Agencies owe it to carers to prepare them as well as possible. This course aims to help carers help traumatised children and themselves to face change and loss in a managed and constructive way. Understanding the effects of transitions and endings can give carers an insight into why these times may be so difficult. It can help carers to manage their own feelings of loss and grief, and give them the knowledge to help a child to successfully come through the changes facing him or her. Subjects covered include the importance of attachment and resilience, trauma and the impact of secondary traumatic stress, and promoting and managing constructive endings.
Caring for looked after children can be an immensely stressful and complex task. Managing Difficult Behaviour is a unique handbook that aims to provide foster carers with new skills to help them improve a child’s behaviour. Full of useful tips, case examples and exercises, this handbook addresses key areas including: how to be good at giving praise; giving positive attention; establishing boundaries; using rewards helping children learn from their actions; giving instructions using time-out. The techniques and strategies set out in this book are not difficult to understand or to put into practice. The improvement in relationships and in children’s behaviour will make every day seem easier and more manageable.
Caring for looked after children can be an immensely stressful and complex task. Managing Difficult Behaviour is a unique handbook that aims to provide foster carers with new skills to help them improve a child’s behaviour. Full of useful tips, case examples and exercises, this handbook addresses key areas including: how to be good at giving praise; giving positive attention; establishing boundaries; using rewards helping children learn from their actions; giving instructions using time-out. The techniques and strategies set out in this book are not difficult to understand or to put into practice. The improvement in relationships and in children’s behaviour will make every day seem easier and more manageable.
Resource pack recommending the best ways in which children in care can be supported in their learning and what teachers, foster carers, social workers and other professionals can do to help them learn. The first part sets the context for the training materials and provides illustrative case studies. Part two provides notes to accompany them and part three suggests ways in which the pack could be used in training, supervision and discussions.
Resource pack recommending the best ways in which children in care can be supported in their learning and what teachers, foster carers, social workers and other professionals can do to help them learn. The first part sets the context for the training materials and provides illustrative case studies. Part two provides notes to accompany them and part three suggests ways in which the pack could be used in training, supervision and discussions.
Subject terms:
looked after children, social welfare, social workers, teaching methods, training, training materials, education, good practice;
This training programme is the first in the UK to set out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It will also provide agencies with an agreed curriculum for preparation courses in a format which will allow applicants and agency staff to make practical use of their learning.
This training programme is the first in the UK to set out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It will also provide agencies with an agreed curriculum for preparation courses in a format which will allow applicants and agency staff to make practical use of their learning.
Subject terms:
placement, training, training materials, adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, assessment, children, families, family relations;
This training programme is the first in the UK to set out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It will also provide agencies with an agreed curriculum for preparation courses in a format which will allow applicants and agency staff to make practical use of their learning.
This training programme is the first in the UK to set out a comprehensive approach to preparing adopters. It will also provide agencies with an agreed curriculum for preparation courses in a format which will allow applicants and agency staff to make practical use of their learning.
Subject terms:
placement, training, training materials, adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, assessment, children, families, family relations;