THEME
The Secure Base Model is a strengths-based framework for therapeutic caregiving informed by developments and research into attachment theory and child placement. It focuses on the interactions between a child and their caregiver that can support a child to experience greater security and build resilience.
This 1 day course will introduce you to the 5 caregiving dimensions – availability, sensitivity, acceptance, co-operation and family membership – and help you understand and assess the child’s needs within each dimension, as well as what carers can do to promote security and resilience for the child. The course will guide you how to think about the dimensions in your social work practice, when assessing prospective kinship carers, foster carers or adopters and thinking about matching, as well as when supporting or supervising them in their care of a child. The course will also introduce you to the Secure Base Tools and give you the opportunity to think about how to use these in your practice.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand the Secure Base Model and how to apply that learning to practice
- Develop critical thinking in how to use the Secure Base Model when assessing prospective carers or adopters
- Explore how to understand and assess the needs of children of all ages in relation to your role
- Explore how to support carers and adoptive parents to provide therapeutic care that promotes security and resilience in children
PRESENTER
Helen Dunkley Associate Trainer, CoramBAAF.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Any social workers or managers involved in either the assessment or support to foster carers, kinship carers and adopters.
On open courses we can accommodate a maximum of four delegates from one organisation only. For a larger group booking, please see the information on commissioned training.
For social workers, reflection on this session may contribute to your continuing professional development (CPD).
Total of 22 places available.
RECOMMENDED READING
Promoting Attachment and Resilience
Authors: Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2014)
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour.
This practical guide is designed to support foster carers and adopters in offering the best possible sensitive care for troubled children who have often experienced trauma and loss. Secure Base 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.
The Secure Base Model
Authors: Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2014)
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour.
Secure Base 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. It provides a valuable framework and strengths-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.
TIME
Registration 9.45 am
Start 10.00 am*
Close 4.00 pm*
*Times subject to change
FEES
Full or associate CoramBAAF member - £158.00 + £31.60 VAT = £189.60
Individual CoramBAAF member - £120.00 + £24.00 VAT = £144.00
Non-member - £220.00 + £44.00 VAT = £264.00
CONTACT
Telephone 020 7520 0310
Email training@corambaaf.org.uk
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