Akamas

Below is our full range of face-to-face and online training resources. For a more specific selection of courses, please choose the link above that most closely matches your area of interest.

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	BTEC Certificates 3 items
	Advanced Skills in Foster Care
	Working with Traumatised Children
	Supporting the Education of Traumatised Children
	BTEC Awards 13 items
	Promoting healthy development
	Enabling traumatised children to manage their behaviour
	Working as part of a team in foster care
	Addressing addictive and self-harming behaviour
	Caring for children with specific impairments
	Basic law for foster care practitioners
	Analysing the needs of traumatised children
	Developing strategic interventions to address secondary trauma
	Developing strategic approaches to intervention with traumatised children
	Developing professional practice in working with sexually traumatised children
	Developing professional practice in working with disabled and traumatised children
	Managing stakeholder communications
	Working together to safeguard traumatised children in school
	Child Protection Awareness 2 items
	Protecting Children: Developing Basic Skills
	Protecting Children: Developing Basic Awareness
	Induction / Foundation 34 items
	Trauma I: Attachment and Loss
	Building Rapport in Work with Challenging Behaviour
	Assessing and Managing Risk
	The Role of the Facilitator in Work with Challenging Behaviour
	Understanding Adolescence
	Child Development
	Children's Rights
	Communicating with Colleagues
	Equality and Diversity
	Dealing with Aggression
	Records and Record Keeping
	Self-Harm
	Team Development
	Wellbeing and Stress in the Children’s Workforce
	Boundary Setting in Work with Challenging Behaviour
	Communication Skills in Work with Challenging Behaviour
	Using Self Development in Work with Challenging Behaviour
	Child Protection
	Communicating with Children
	Professional and Personal Development
	Sexuality, Sexual Development and Sexual Abuse
	Therapeutic Child Care
	Trauma II: Resilience and Recovery
	Challenging Behaviour: Interventions for Change
	Preparation for Adult Life
	The Role of the Foster Carer
	Kinship Care
	Foster Care for Disabled and Learning Disabled Children
	Pathways through Fostering: Education
	Pathways through Fostering: Attachment
	Pathways through Fostering: Contact
	Pathways through Fostering: Health
	Pathways through Fostering: Managing Behaviour
	Pathways through Fostering: Safer Caring
	Face-to-Face Courses 22 items
	Addiction and Self-Harm: Helping children to manage maladaptive behaviour
	Attachment: Helping children with unmet needs to recover and adapt
	Basic Law for Foster Care: England and Wales
	Beyond Childhood: Helping traumatised children make the transition to adult life
	Building Identity: Celebrating diversity in the care of traumatised children
	Caring for the Carers: Preventing and treating secondary traumatic stress disorders
	Contact: Working with issues of identity and stability
	Family Ties: Working with issues in the care of siblings
	Healing Environments: Helping children to recover from trauma
	How To Be Good: Shame and the development of social learning
	Learn the Child: Supporting the education of traumatised children
	Life Story Work: Enabling children to make sense of their lives
	Men in Child Care: Gender, power and risk management
	Moving On: Managing transitions and endings in the care of traumatised children
	Safe Caring: Managing risk and reducing vulnerability
	Sharing the Care: Birth children in foster families
	Trauma and Antisocial Behaviour: Working effectively with young offenders
	Trauma and Resilience: Recovery and adaptation after overwhelming stress
	Motivation and Transformation: Spiritual Intelligence and Trauma
	Growing through Grief: Managing unplanned transitions and endings in the care of traumatised children
	Sexualised Behaviour: Working safely with sexually traumatised children
	You Can’t Choose Your Parents: Surviving exposure to chaotic lifestyles
	Books 21 items
	Attachment, Trauma and Resilience
	Fostering Attachments: Long-term Outcomes in Family Group Care
	Learn the Child: Helping Looked After Children to Learn
	Whatever Happened to Adam?
	Surviving Paedophilia: traumatic stress after organised and network child sexual abuse
	Promoting Resilience: a resource guide on working with children in the care system
	No One Ever Told Us School Mattered: Raising the Educational Attainments of Children in Public Care
	Ghosts from the Nursery: tracing the roots of violence
	Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
	Life Story Work: a practical guide to helping children understand their past
	Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds
	Child Care and Education
	Child Care Law: A Summary of the Law in England and Wales
	Treating Compassion Fatigue
	Early Years: Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: Early Years v. 1
	Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: School Years v. 2
	Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children: Adolescence Vol 3
	Protector's Handbook: Reducing the Risk of Child Sexual Abuse and Helping Children Recover
	Growing Up with Disability (Research Highlights in Social Work)
	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
	Protecting Children: A Resource Book and Course Reader
	CDs / DVDs 0 items
	Conferences / Seminars 0 items