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Use code ‘TRAINING30’ at checkout for 30% discount on NPP Level 1, Therapeutic Life Story Work and all downloadable training resources. www.familyfutures.co.uk/training

#CPD #TraumaInformed #TherapeuticParenting #PACE #ProfessionalDevelopment #SocialWork #SupportForFamilies #DanHughes #DDP

At #JogoBehaviourSupport we help #familes and #Schools explore the meaning behind child's behaviour.  For More info: https://www.jogobehavioursupport.com/family-support

#behaviouriscommunication #TherapeuticParenting #ChildBehaviour #FamilySupport

We offer a wide range of resources designed specifically to support Therapeutic Parenting and the PACE model. Learn more here - bit.ly/4fBV1AX

#PACE #TherapeuticParenting #ChildTrauma #ChildhoodTrauma #Fostering #Adoption #SocialWork #SocialCare #TraumaInformed

In this week’s episode of Pondering Play and Therapy, Philippa is joined by Matt, a senior practitioner at CAPA First Response.
#ChildToParentAggression #ParentingSupport #FamilyTherapy #PlayTherapy #CAPAFirstResponse #TherapeuticParenting #ConnectionThroughPlay #MentalHealthSupport

Healing Through Play 🎭
🌟 #PlayTherapy #MentalHealthMatters #TherapeuticPlay #familysupport #ponderingandplaytherapy #beaconfamilyservices #ConnectionOverCorrection #TherapeuticParenting

🎙️Philippa Kelly sits down with the incredible Charlotte Jenkins—founder of Beacon Family Services and co-founder of the innovative parenting app Lumin&Us

#PonderingAndPlayTherapy #BeaconFamilyServices #TherapeuticParenting #ChildrensMentalHealth #EmotionalResilience #ConnectionOverCorrection

Inside Our Therapeutic Training Courses - Gateway Psychology Discover how our online programmes support parents and carers through trauma-informed, therapeutic sessions. Angela shares what to expect and why it matters.

What’s it like to join one of our online parenting courses?

Angela shares what to expect, what helps carers feel safe, and what people say by the end.

Often funded via ASGSF + a cost-effective use of the Fair Access Limit.

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#ASGSF #AdoptionSupport #TherapeuticParenting

#TraumaInformedCare #DevelopmentalTrauma #Attachment #TherapeuticParenting #TraumaTherapy #ChildMentalHealth #ComplexTrauma #AdoptionSupport #AdoptiveFamilies #AdoptionCommunity #AttachmentParenting #ParentingThroughTrauma #TraumaTherapist #ClinicalPsychology #IntegrativeTherapy

We’ve got a busy few months ahead with a mix of online & in-person therapeutic parenting courses. Designed for adopters, foster carers, kinship & SGO carers supporting children with early trauma.

📩 Get in touch for dates & info

#TherapeuticParenting #TraumaInformed #AdoptionSupport

That’s the work of therapeutic intervention.

That’s why I’ll keep showing up.

That’s why I’ll keep pushing for this approach—every single day.

#TherapeuticParenting #TraumaInformed #AreWeOK

The day you plant the seed “The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.”This is an interesting one that’s going to land differently depending on what’s going on for us.When we’ve been showing up, pouring in lov...

Therapeutic parenting - the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit

#therapeuticparenting #trauma #traumainformed #parenting #nvr #nonviolentresistance #parenting #secondarytrauma #compassionfatigue #burnout

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Vigilant care I was talking to a friend yesterday - an adopter and fellow NVR practitioner. I can’t tag her because she doesn’t have a page.The conversation was around how we often don’t know what we’re dealing wit...

Therapeutic parenting - stepping in and stepping back during the teenage years
A blog - 3 minute read

#nvr #nonviolentresistance #vigilantcare #therapeuticparenting #parenting #teenagers #parentingteenagers #cse #grooming #gangs #onlinesafety

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Courageous parenting Happy New Year from one courageous parent to another.This year, I’ve seen so much quiet courage - tough decisions that needed to be made, hard conversations that needed to be had, limits that needed t...

Happy new year from one courageous parent to another
A blog - 1 minute read

#happynewyear #parenting #therapeuticparenting #nvr #nonviolentresistance #cpva #teenagers #boundaries #connection #anchor

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Clear is kind “Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind” – Brene BrownThis quote comes to mind often, because it’s so true - for our young people but also for us adults. We all feel safer when our environments and the peop...

Clear is kind - holding boundaries compassionately and making space for the emotions

#nvr #nonviolentresistance #parenting #teenagers #therapeuticparenting #boundaries #communication #compassion #connection #brenebrown #cleariskind

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How was your Christmas? How was your Christmas?I’m not sure that a drama-free Christmas is possible for families raising children with significant early trauma. Because trauma isn’t something that lives in the past. When the...

How was your christmas as an adopter, foster parent, or kinship carer?

#christmas #trauma #adoption #fostering #fostercare #kinship #therapeuticparenting

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Almost 160 participants, from around the world, have joined our two free online workshops, today, for parents whose children have become psychologically split in the context of divorce or separation #TherapeuticParenting

Now you see me... I saw this on Bluesky and was very moved. It's hard living with children who were hurt in the most awful ways and still respond from that hurt - because that's what happens with early trauma - it impa...

Wonderful video being shared "I wonder if you see me" - must watch powerful depiction of trauma.
A blog - 3 min watch & 1 min read

#trauma #childhoodtrauma #shame #abandonment #curiosityforexperience #therapeuticparenting #traumainformed #edusky

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Tigers and teddy bears I love Suzanne Zeedyk's analogy of tigers and teddy bears to explain attachment.Unique and highly personal neural pathways significantly influence our thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating - neura...

A blog based on @suzannezeedyk.bsky.social 'tigers and teddy bears' analogy of attachment - 2 min read

#attachment #trauma #childhoodtrauma #nvr #nonviolentresistance #therapeuticparenting #behaviourmanagement #challengingbehaviour #cpv

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NVR - evidence base and adaptability NVR as a parenting approach was developed in the 1990s to help parents take a firm stance around harmful behaviours - like drugs, drinking, violence, crime, opting out of school and work, and opting o...

NVR family support - what's it based on and what's it good for?
A blog - two min read

#nvr #nonviolentresistance #therapeuticparenting #autism #adhd #fasd #trauma #pda #evidencebasedpractice #familysupport #challingbehaviour #cpv

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Love the analogy of tigers and teddies. Life is an uphill struggle if your world was made up of tigers.

Trying to help parents get it as right as we can for the next generation - especially those of us who grew up with tigers.
#attachment #trauma #therapeuticparenting #adoption #fostering #kinship

Sometimes helping a family with therapeutic parenting involves helping to gather up formal & informal support. Supporting to request an EHC needs assessment - a primary child accessing informal support that won’t be available in secondary.

#education #ehcp #send #sendparenting #therapeuticparenting

It’s not about what happened to us as children One of my favourite quotes is from one of Dan Siegel’s earlier books - parenting from the inside out. He explains that it isn’t what happens to us in childhood that impacts the attachment security of ...

Parents with childhood trauma - making sense of our experience is what matters
A blog - 2 min read

#childhoodtrauma #complextrauma #complexptsd #trauma #traumainformed #meaning #narratives #therapeuticparenting #dissociation #dissociativedisorder

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Sometimes we just need to let off steam In an NVR group for kinship/connected carers we talked about the importance of venting. Sometimes we don’t want advice - we just want to offload and be heard. It's tricky when we offload and we people...

Delivering an NVR group & had a discussion about the need to offload without being given advice
A blog - 1 min read

#venting #offloading #listeningear #supportnetwork #supporters #nvr #nonviolentresistance #trauma #traumainformed #therapeuticparenting

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What's the story? The stories we tell ourselves matter.Whether emotions shape our narrative or our narrative shapes our emotions is up for debate. But one thing is clear - the narrative we hold about our children's beh...

What's the story - creating kind and balanced narratives for children's behaviour

A blog - 1 minute read

#therapeuticparenting #parenting #nvr #nonviolentresistance #ddp #dyadicdevelopmentalpsychotherapy #behaviourmanagement #cpv #childtoparentviolence

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Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Their Support Workers Accessing Remotely Delivered Therapeutic Support via the Adoption Support Fund during COVID-19: A Service Evaluation | Request PDF Request PDF | Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Their Support Workers Accessing Remotely Delivered Therapeutic Support via the Adoption Support Fund during COVID-19: A Service Evaluation | This serv...

One Post Research Summary

#AdoptiveParents & support workers experiences of Remote #TherapeuticParenting

👉18 Parents Questionnaire Data
👉6 Support Worker Interviews

🔎Accessing such support was accessible & met family needs
🔎Consider a face-to-face meeting prior to online work

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(PDF) Experiences of foster carers remotely accessing the children in care (CIC) consultation model during the Covid-19 pandemic: A service evaluation PDF | This service evaluation explored foster carers’ experiences of remotely accessing the children in care consultation model during the Covid-19... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

One Post Research Summary

Experiences of Remote #TherapeuticParenting consultations

👉8 Interviews with Foster Carers
👉Thematic analysis

🔎4 Key Themes
1️⃣ Reassurance & support
2️⃣ Approach and understanding
3️⃣ Online consultation approval/disapproval:
4️⃣ Behaviour change

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Parental presence when we're burnt out... I'm delivering an NVR group at the moment and this morning we were thinking about increasing our presence (in their minds and hearts) through loving gestures - communicating to our children that we're...

Parental presence when we're burnt out
A blog - 1 minute read

#nvr #nonviolentresistance #relationshipgestures #reconciliationgestures #lovinggestures #parentalpresence #qualitytime #parenting #therapeuticparenting

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Life story conversations with kinship children Yesterday I had the honour and the privilege of spending the day with a group of kinship carers - thinking together about the difficult things our children have experienced - and more importantly how ...

Life story conversations with kinship children
A blog - 1 minute read

#adoption #fostering #kinship #lifestory #lifestoryconversations #lifestorywork #trauma #developmentaltrauma #therapeuticparenting #therapy

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Accept your humanity Some children need ‘Superparents’ - the premise of Amber Elliot’s book for therapeutic parents. But striving to be the perfect parent for our child is soul destroying. Sometimes we reach a point where...

Accept your humanity as a therapeutic parent
A blog - 1 minute read

#nvr #nonviolentresistance #parenting #therapeuticparenting #superparents #superkids #adoption #fostering #kinship #adhd #autism #adhd #fasd #goodenoughparenting

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