The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions (Therapeutic Parenting Books)

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Also known as Attachment-Focused Family Therapy, DDP supports the relationship between parents and children with developmental trauma, with the aim of healing past trauma and enabling the child to feel safe.

A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting by Sarah Naish | Waterstones The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting by Sarah Naish | Waterstones

Curiosity: showing that they understand their child’s behaviour. Curiosity also helps parents teach their child how to understand their own behaviour if I had not had the correct training myself, I don’t know how I would’ve got my children safely to adulthood with our relationship intact.” In this episode, Jane sets out an array of simple but effective strategies that help to reset a child’s understanding of what is appropriate behaviour between children and adults. This edition also features an interview with the NATP’s Glynis Hough who has many years of successful fostering experience but who recently experienced great anguish when her foster daughter left the family for good. Or the one that seemed to know exactly what was going on everywhere else but was paying no attention at all to the lesson?Therapeutic Parenting differs from ‘Traditional Parenting’ in that it does not use time out/any form of corporal punishment, shame the child, use reward charts, or expect the child to self-regulate or feel empathy and remorse. Little else could be more destructive to a family unit than a child who is violent and aggressive towards their adoptive or foster parents. You can find out more about COECT and the NATP’s training, listening circles and support here www.naotp.com Playfulness: creating an environment of lightness and interest when communicating; for example, using a light tone when telling a story and expressing fun and joy over being stern or irritated This legally inaccurate advice creates anxieties and fear, feelings which then impact on how well the carers perform during the communication phase of these incidents.

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We are working with the National Association of Therapeutic Parents to deliver ‘open’ courses in Violence Management at Home. Both programmes have been written by Kim Golding, a Clinical Psychologist and Dyadic Developmental Practitioner (DDP network). Therapeutic Parenting uses firm but fair boundaries and routines to aid the development of new neural pathways in the brain so children may gain trust in adults. And so their lower brain (survival brain) may connect with their higher brain (prefrontal cortex/thinking brain) so they can link cause and effect.

For me as a personal safety coach and physical intervention expert witness and advisor, it has been so interesting to talk to the parents about that moment – where they are feeling challenged about how they are still committed to being therapeutic in their approach and yet they have a moment where they are feeling physically threatened by the child, yet they are still trying to be therapeutic. And there’s a balance about feeling protected in yourself, so that you can then be effective in employing therapeutic approaches. It’s about building up a positive parent-child relationship and reminding them that you’ll always be there for them.