How to Improve Relationships and Manage Difficult Behaviour

Trainers:  Lucy Hooper/Mel Nash, Placement Support Officers, CAMHS;  and Vicky Woodgate, Fostering Social Worker.

This 10 week course is aimed at foster carers who care for the under 12 age group. Caring for looked after children 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 upon 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 must have a child in placement at the time in order to benefit fully from this training.

Dates:  Tuesdays,

Optional supplementary sessions for carers who have already completed the 2007 or 2008 courses: Communication and Problem Solving, March 3rd and 10th 2009.

Time: 10 am – 1 pm

Venue: To be confirmed. We will arrange a venue which is accessible to as many carers as possible once we know which carers are interested in this training event.

Maximum number for this course: 20

Training Application Form (79KB - pdf help)