Explore resources designed to help parents and carers understand children’s development, make sense of behaviours, and support their emotional wellbeing. These resources offer practical guidance, insights into trauma and attachment, and advice to help children thrive in a safe, stable and nurturing environment.
These free resources showcase some of the content available to CATCH members, To access our full library of resources, tools, and support, become a CATCH member through your agency or buy an individual membership.
In this webinar Dr Andrea Warman (Director of Nifa Children and Families Consultancy) draws upon her work with foster carers, adopters and special guardians, to explore the social and emotional meanings of food for children and their carers. She identifies some of the challenges, but uses examples of cooking, shopping and eating together to demonstrate how good care supports a healthy relationship with food in childhood and into adulthood.
This is a clip from the webinar, in which Dr Lauren Topper (Clinical Psychologist) provides a deeper understanding of the complex role of shame within attachment. She covers what shame is, the reasons behind shame and the impact that it can have both on children and on parents and carers. By understanding and identifying shame, this can help to mitigate shame and strengthen parent-child connections.
“As a social worker, I highly recommend this webinar to all adopters and prospective adopters. Dr Topper provides a really engaging presentation with many case examples to support parents to understand the emotional needs of children who have experienced trauma.” – Hub member
In this webinar Jessica Spenceley gives an introduction to the attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®). She provides tools and insights to help parents build strong connections with and support their child’s healing from early adversity and trauma.
“Helpful examples of how connecting (e.g. playing) with your child can change life at home for the better.” – Hub member
Dr Lauren Topper (Clinical Psychologist) explores the concept of regressive behaviours in children who have experienced trauma, through an attachment focused lens. Stress and trauma can have a significant impact on children’s developmental progression and emotional well-being. Lauren outlines some ideas regarding what may be happening for children with developmental trauma when faced with current stressors.
Dr Lauren Topper (Clinical Psychologist) explores how to build connection and improve communication with your child/ren to help you enjoy the positives of the teenage years and better navigate the challenges. Lauren covers attachment styles, the impact of trauma and emotional regulation strategies.
In this webinar Dr Naomi Graham (Occupational Therapist) talks through strategies she used in occupational therapy to support Alice (13) and Alley (15) with their self-regulation, to help Alice to be able to sleep and to help Alley to re-engage in school and with her relationship with her mum.
This webinar will be helpful for anyone supporting a child through occupational therapy.
This toolkit, created by The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, is designed for parents, carers, family members and professionals, to help everyone play their part in keeping children safe. It has links to useful information, resources, and support as well as practical tips to prevent harmful sexual behaviour and provide safe environments for families.