Training Programme
Fostering Changes: How to improve relationships and manage difficult behaviour
Trainers: Claire Bennett: Fostering SW and Mandy Heggadon: Foster Carer
This 12 week course is aimed at foster carers who care for pre-school children and up to age 12. Caring can be an immensely stressful and complex task. Children in fostering placements have high levels of persistent and chronic emotional and behavioural difficulties, and increasing expectations of foster placements have gone hand in hand with increasing stresses and demands on carers.
The course will provide foster carers with practical advice and training to help develop skills in managing difficult and challenging child behaviour and to form positive relationships with the children they look after. It draws substantially on ideas from current parent training programmes that use a cognitive behavioural approach to work with parents in order to develop skills.
Foster carers will need to commit themselves to all sessions and should have a child in placement at the time in order to benefit fully from this training.
- Session 1 Establishing the group
- Session 2 The context of behaviour
- Session 3 Effective praise
- Session 4 Positive attention
- Session 5 Helping children regulate
- Session 6 The context of education
- Session 7 Reading and rewards
- Session 8 Giving instructions and ignoring
- Session 9 Setting limits
- Session 10 Time Out and Stay, Plan, Go!
- Session 11 Endings and review
- Session 12 Acknowledging positive change their emotions and taking care of yourself
Dates: 10th January - 3rd April 2012
Time: 10am–1pm
Venue: Oaklands Court, Unit 7, Tiverton Business Park, Tiverton Way, Tiverton EX16 6TG
CWDC Standards 4, 5 and 6.
