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.
Who should attend?
- Social workers with responsibility for undertaking fostering and adoption assessments
- Social workers who supervise and support fostering and adoption placements
Learning outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- 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
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Read the book
This practical guide to the Secure Base model is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood.