Description
This comprehensive training resource is based on materials developed for a group course that has been run over the past ten years with adopters, foster carers and residential workers in Sussex.
The resource is designed for training and supporting those who work with and care for young people who have experienced abuse and neglect.
The training gives an overview of the core concepts of developmental trauma, the provision of trauma-informed therapeutic care, and self-care for carers.
The underpinning model is Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP), an approach which allows carers to get beneath the defences and blocked trust of children in their care. The course supports carers’ capacity to provide therapeutic care through developing their understanding of the needs of the children they care for and supporting carers in the development of an attitude of PACE-Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy-the core ingredients of the therapeutic approach.
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Details
ISBN: 9781912755547
Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Publication date: March 2021
About the Authors
DEBORAH PAGE is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, a certified DDP Practitioner and Consultant, and Clinical Lead of a specialist NHS and Local Authority CAMHS service. She specialises in therapeutic work with families in the area of fostering adoption and special guardianship. She has 30 years of practice and supervision experience, as well as experience in delivering training to local authority partners and others.
RACHEL SWANN is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist specialising in child and adolescent mental health, and a qualified DDP practitioner. She was Lead Clinician in an NHS and Local Authority Looked After Children’s Mental Health Service, where she worked for 14 years before leaving in 2018 to lead on the development of a new trauma informed model of care in a welfare secure children’s home.
Audience
Mental health and social work professionals based in child and adolescent mental health services, local authority adoption and looked after children’s services, fostering agencies, voluntary groups and private practice who support foster carers, residential social workers and adopters in their care of young people with developmental trauma.
Ella Evans – Family Therapist Practitioner – New Zealand –
I am a family therapist working with children who have experienced early childhood developmental trauma and attachment disruption. Part of my role is to work with the parents/caregivers to help them understand how trauma has affected the child in their care and how to parent therapeutically to meet the specific needs that the child has. We recently purchased Therapeutic Parenting with PACE as a resource to use with our parents and it is fantastic. I have been researching and learning about therapeutic parenting for years and now I have found the book that brings all of that learning together in one place. It is well set out and easy to use with parents whether they are at the beginning of their journey or already on their way towards becoming therapeutic parents. I believe that Therapeutic Parenting with PACE is the gold standard for all parents but for parents and caregivers who are raising children affected by trauma and attachment difficulties, it is essential. I would highly recommend this resource.