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P.O. Box 12, Harrow HA14ZB
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CARING FOR A TRAUMATISED CHILD
(One Day Course) |
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VENUE |
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NO.OF PLACES AVAILABLE |
15 |
FACILITATOR/TRAINER
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Dr Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE
(Consultant Psychologist) |
TARGET GROUP
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All foster carers, kinship carers and supervising social workers |
COURSE OUTLINE
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This workshop builds a working model of trauma and its manifestations in children, using discussion, case studies and introducing a theory of trauma before considering the role of foster carers in the healing process |
LEARNING OUTCOMES
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By the end of the course you will understand:
- Physical and psychological aspects of trauma
- Why many children in care are traumatized
- How our own values affect how we respond to trauma
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LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS |
ALL
NMS 7, 9, 12, 13, 23 |
N.B. |
All information can be followed up in
suggested reading:
'Understanding Looked After Children: psychology for
Foster Care' Authors: Jeune Guishard-Pine; Suzanne
McCall and Lloyd Hamilton. Jessica Kingsley publishers. 2007. |
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BEREAVEMENT AND LOSS: ONE DAY COURSE. |
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VENUE |
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NO.OF PLACES
AVAILABLE |
15 |
FACILITATOR/TRAINER
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Dr Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE
(Consultant Psychologist) |
TARGET GROUP |
All foster carers, kinship carers and supervising social workers |
COURSE OUTLINE |
""Death is part of life" can be a helpful cliche, but is it enough to help us to adapt to and understand the feelings that a child is having about their significant and sometimes frequent separations and losses? Attention is given to enhancing the carers'
understanding of grief reactions in others and in
children. |
LEARNING OUTCOMES |
This course is intended to enhance foster carers' knowledge and understanding about grief processes in both adults and children. By the end of the course you will understand:
- Your own reactions to grieving in others
- How to identify where/how loss occurs across the lifespan
- Diverse responses to loss and bereavement
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LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL
STANDARDS |
ALL
NMS 7, 9, 12, 13, 23
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N.B. |
All information can be followed up in
suggested reading:
'Understanding Looked After Children: psychology for
Foster Care' Authors: Jeune Guishard-Pine; Suzanne
McCall and Lloyd Hamilton. Jessica Kingsley publishers. 2007. |
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Communicating with children: Can counselling
skills help? One day course. |
DATES/TIMES |
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VENUE |
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NO.OF PLACES AVAILABLE |
15 |
FACILITATOR/TRAINER |
Dr Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE
(Consultant Psychologist) |
TARGET GROUP |
All foster carers, kinship carers and supervising social workers |
COURSE OUTLINE
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Introduces the carers to specific and constituent aspects of counselling skills
using a series of scenarios and encouraging and enabling the practise of newly-learnt counselling skills.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
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By the end of the course you will:
- Have a working knowledge of counselling as a distinct interactive process
- Learn the 3 ‘core conditions’ of counselling
- Increase confidence in responding to emotional conversations with children
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LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS |
ALL
NMS 7,9,12,13,23
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N.B.
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All information can be followed up in
suggested reading:
'Understanding Looked After Children: psychology for
Foster Care' Authors: Jeune Guishard-Pine; Suzanne
McCall and Lloyd Hamilton. Jessica Kingsley
publishers. 2007.
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Counselling Skills for Foster Carers (Accredited by the Open College Network –OCN) |
DATES/TIMES |
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VENUE |
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NO.OF PLACES AVAILABLE |
15 |
FACILITATOR/TRAINER |
Dr Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE
(Consultant Psychologist) |
TARGET GROUP |
All foster carers, kinship carers and supervising social workers |
COURSE OUTLINE |
- To enhance and improve the verbal communication skills of participants, especially the ability to listen, to respect silence and to communicate empathic understanding. Emphasis will be given to working in groups
- To introduce trainees to experiential learning processes that will include a high element of personal growth work. Developing further self-confidence and self-esteem
- To enable foster carers to better manage emotional conversations with their foster children
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LEARNING OUTCOMES |
By the end of the course the foster carers should:
- Have a basic understanding of what counselling is about and compare and contrast with other forms of helping eg advice, assessment
- Acquire some basic skills to further improve their own communication processes.
- Discuss the inequality of the power relationship between the adult and the child and show an understanding of issues of difference
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LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS |
ALL
NMS 7,9,12,13,23
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On completion of the course, foster carers must:
- Distinguish the distinctiveness of the counselling approach when compared and contrasted with other psychological interventions
- Show increased self-awareness and self-confidence, be able to evidence personal growth and demonstrate insight in to their own strengths and areas of development
- Fulfil the assessment work to receive the NOCN Certificate
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Caring for a sexually abused child: One day course |
DATES/TIMES |
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VENUE |
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NO.OF PLACES AVAILABLE |
15 |
FACILITATOR/TRAINER |
Dr Jeune Guishard-Pine OBE
(Consultant Psychologist) |
TARGET GROUP |
All foster carers, kinship carers and supervising social workers |
COURSE OUTLINE |
After carefully creating an ethos of safety, the workshop embarks on the multi-faceted aspects of sexual abuse.
Further areas covered are age-appropriate sexual development and sexual language in children; case study and role of carer and other professionals in the healing process for children.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES |
By the end of the course you will have:
- Increased understand of how different forms of child abuse are interrelated
- Understanding of sexual development in children
- Understanding of opportunities and limitations of what a foster carer can do to support a victim of child sexual abuse
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LINKS TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS |
ALL
NMS 7,9,12,13,23
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N.B. |
All information can be followed up in
suggested reading:
'Understanding Looked After Children: psychology for
Foster Care' Authors: Jeune Guishard-Pine; Suzanne
McCall and Lloyd Hamilton. Jessica Kingsley
publishers. 2007. |
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LECTURE |
The Impact of Racism on Children’s lives |
This lecture charts the psychohistory of research in to the psyche of Diasporean Africans and it’s relevance to the development of self in black Caribbean and African children in the UK |
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LECTURE |
Men in Black Families: Fatherwork in the Black Community |
This lecture presents the PhD research that looks into a series of studies that found that children's own experiences of parenting in conjunction with careful attention to race and ethnicity and the incidence and meaning of non-resident fathering, are likely and important influences upon diverse aspects of child development. |
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