Child Development - Training for KCC Foster Carers

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to:

• Consider the relevance of attachment in ordinary development.
• Consider the difficulties children and adolescents may face when their traumatic state has affected their attachment or attachment has been available to them.
• Explore what individual children find difficult.
• Consider research based methods of helping children through their difficulties.

Course Content:

• A reminder of the attachment cycle – reflections on the previous days training – shared observations.
• The effects of trauma on children.
• Identifying some of the difficulties children and young people may face when they have attachment difficulties. (Video and demonstration)
• Relating theory to practice, mapping out individual needs and identifying the help that they require.
• Rebuilding the cycle, current research and techniques to enhance children and young people’s ability to improve both their social and emotional relationships and a more secure mental health.
• Recognition that some children and young people need additional professional help; ways of working together.
• Effects on the carers, looking after ourselves.