This selection of resources provide information and guidance on attachment, helping you understand how attachment influences a child’s development and the importance of nurturing relationships.
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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 Jessica Spenceley (Founder of Nurtured Belonging) 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
Created by an experienced foster carer, adopter and child protection social worker. This eLearning course has been created for foster carers to provide practical examples of using PACE in daily life, but is also relevant to everyone parenting or caring for a child who wishes to find out more about how PACE can improve communication, diffuse heated situations and lead to better relationships.
“Excellent course. Very accessible and easy to understand with real practical examples for use with children of a variety of ages.” – Hub member
Written by Dr Georgina Hibbert (Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist) who specialises in working with children who have suffered parental abuse or trauma. This course supports the understanding of core concepts essential to anyone raising or working with a child who has experienced early life trauma. We recommend this course to all of our members.
“Great mixture of content made it very engaging and thought-provoking… Made us consider what our parenting style will be and how we may tackle different situations should they arise in future.” – Hub member
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.
Dr Naomi Fox (Children’s occupational therapist, Founder & CEO of Growing Hope) presents this webinar to give support and guidance for parents and carers on toilet training, including practical strategies to help children learn how to use the toilet independently.