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One-day sessions for up to 80 participants looking at specific areas of theory and practice

Our face-to-face training days are designed to provide high-quality professional development for staff groups at the same time as complementing our online qualifications. Costs are kept low by holding courses at a venue you arrange, and our network of Associate Trainers can resource training around the UK.


Available
Face-to-Face Courses Addiction and Self-Harm: Helping children to manage maladaptive behaviour Full Details
This course covers unmet needs, shame, emotional coping and helping children to recover and adapt.

Face-to-Face Courses Attachment: Helping children with unmet needs to recover and adapt Full Details
This course covers attachment, trauma, unmet needs and helping children to recover and adapt.

Face-to-Face Courses Beyond Childhood: Helping traumatised children make the transition to adult life Full Details
This course covers transitions, resilience, human ecology, assessing resilience and making plans.

Face-to-Face Courses Building Identity: Celebrating diversity in the care of traumatised children Full Details
This course covers identity, diversity, infant attachment and enabling traumatised children to form a strong sense of identity and to celebrate diversity.

Face-to-Face Courses Caring for the Carers: Preventing and treating secondary traumatic stress disorders Full Details
This course covers the understanding of traumatic stress and using secondary traumatic stress as a model for understanding and managing the impact of living and working with traumatised children.

Face-to-Face Courses Contact: Working with issues of identity and stability Full Details
This course covers understanding the complexity of contact and making child-centred contact plans.

Face-to-Face Courses Family Ties: Working with issues in the care of siblings Full Details
This course covers the complexity of sibling relationships, assessment and planning.

Face-to-Face Courses Healing Environments: Helping children to recover from trauma Full Details
This course explores healing environments and the planning and changes required to establish them.

Face-to-Face Courses How To Be Good: Shame and the development of social learning Full Details
This course covers attachment and the development of self-regulation and how to help children to recover from and adapt to acquired impairments.

Face-to-Face Courses Learn the Child: Supporting the education of traumatised children Full Details
This course covers the impact of trauma on the education of children and strategies for supporting the education of traumatised children.

Face-to-Face Courses Life Story Work: Enabling children to make sense of their lives Full Details
This course covers child development and the creation of narrative and enabling traumatised children to form a strong and positive personal narrative.

Face-to-Face Courses Men in Child Care: Gender, power and risk management Full Details
This course covers the social context of men working with children and assessing and managing the risks.

Face-to-Face Courses Moving On: Managing transitions and endings in the care of traumatised children Full Details
This course covers resilience and promoting successful transitions and constructive endings.

Face-to-Face Courses Safer Caring: Managing risk and reducing vulnerability Full Details
This course covers understanding hazards, risks, vulnerability and assessing and managing risks in caring for children.

Face-to-Face Courses Sexualised Behaviour: Working safely with sexually traumatised children Full Details
This course will tech you to understand and recognise the needs of a sexually traumatised child or young person.

Face-to-Face Courses Sharing the Care: Birth children in foster families Full Details
This course explores being a birth child in a foster family, managing risk and promoting resilience.

Face-to-Face Courses Supervising Foster Care: Promoting and managing therapeutic family life Full Details
This unique course uses a mixture of face-to-face and online learning to address the role of the Foster Care Supervisor in the context of standards for the management and training of Foster Carers.

Face-to-Face Courses Trauma and Antisocial Behaviour: Working effectively with young offenders Full Details
This course covers childhood trauma, antisocial behaviour and helping children to develop prosocial behaviour.

Face-to-Face Courses Trauma and Resilience: Recovery and adaptation after overwhelming stress Full Details
This course covers attachment, the development of self-regulation and helping children to recover from, and adapt to, acquired impairments.

Face-to-Face Courses You Can’t Choose Your Parents: Surviving exposure to chaotic lifestyles Full Details
This course teaches you to recognise the impact of parental substance misuse and domestic violence, providing guidance for enabling children and young people to survive and thrive.




Additional information

The following links provide additional information and resources relating to Face-to-Face Courses.

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