Promoting attachment and resilience

All children need to feel secure in their relationships with their adult caregivers. Where children have not experienced sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour.

This practical guide supports foster carers and adopters in offering the best possible sensitive care for children who have experienced trauma and loss. The Secure Base model is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. Providing a secure base is at the heart of successful family relationships. It provides a valuable framework and strength-based approach for making sense of fostered and adopted children’s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential.

This guide is for foster carers and adopters who want to help the children they care for become more secure, confident and competent by developing their knowledge of the Secure Base model. The guide is accompanied by online video clips that explain the five dimensions of the Secure Base model in practice through the voices and experiences of adopters, foster carers and young people.

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Ellen Broomé welcomed Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek to talk about the new edition of their bestselling publications, The Secure Base Model and Promoting Attachment and Resilience.

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