All of these have a perfectly good explanation which reflect the upsetting experiences of a child’s early years. Find out more about compassion fatigue in this study commissioned by Sarah Naish of Fostering Attachments Ltd. This episode’s guest, Sarah Dillon, the COECT’s Therapeutic Lead, has helped many parents and children overcome wee and poo issues using therapeutic parenting-inspired strategies.

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She has over 30 years’ experience of supporting children who have experienced Developmental Trauma having worked as a social worker, owned a fostering agency and founded both Inspire Training Group and the National Association of Therapeutic Parents (NATP). If you are looking after children who have suffered trauma through early life neglect or abuse, the National Association of Therapeutic Parents (NATP), of which Sarah Naish is founder and CEO, can support you. So that’s often misinterpreted by the school as the child being aggressive or violent because they’re pushing people out the way to get out the door, and often the child has no memory of that. Whether you need help with stealing and lying or are just feeling alone, blamed and misunderstood, we have everything here in one place.

Our children are rarely consistently functioning within the descriptors of one attachment style, but instead shift between the attachment styles depending on who they are with, how safe they feel, and where they are in their emotional development. Iain also discusses the grief he underwent for the loss of the idealized vision he imagined life as a foster father would be like. How to watch Love Island Games in the UK: As the spin-off to the popular dating show lands, UK viewers need to know how to view it. Hughes’ words are echoed by Jefferies, who states that therapeutic parenting enables children ‘to self-regulate and develop an understanding of their behaviours and ultimately form secure attachments which will, ultimately, minimise the impact of childhood trauma. Concerned parents who are also members of the NATP (part of COECT’s umbrella group) are welcome to contact us for one to one help.

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This leads to all sorts of complicated and unexpected behaviour patterns at any time, but particularly during family celebrations. They’re afraid of what the professionals are going to say, they’re afraid of what might happen in school, when the child talks about what happened at home. Welcome to the Therapeutic Parenting podcast brought to you by this UK based Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma.

This applies to foster carers, adopters, special guardians, kinship carers, step-parents and biological parents. Naish’s books A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting – Strategies and Solutions, and Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell: Positives and Pitfalls are go-to publications for parents of children with attachment difficulties or children who have experienced childhood trauma.

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Perhaps you’re a supporting professional looking for ways to help traumatized children and struggling families. First thing’s first, therapeutic parenting ‘does not mean parents are practising psychological therapies on their child,’ says Rosie Jefferies a training co-ordinator at Fostering Attachments. In my spare time I like taking long walks in the countryside, reading and have many reptiles that I love to care for. You may be puzzling over why your traumatised child’s behaviour around birthdays and festivities becomes even more challenging and difficult than normal.High cortisol levels in children can be like a smoke alarm constantly going off but with therapeutic parenting this can be quietened or switched off. By being aware, informed, sensitive and responsive to trauma, we increase our chances of helping children and young people feel safe, develop trust and invest in relationships and support services. I recently started as Team Manager and have become progressively more invested in their ethos, so I’m really enthusiastic to have come on board. Making the transition from home to school or from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 can present enormous difficulties for children who have suffered adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).