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.
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Addiction and Self-Harm: Helping children to manage maladaptive behaviour |
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| This course covers unmet needs, shame, emotional
coping and helping children to recover and adapt. |
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Attachment: Helping children with unmet needs to recover and adapt |
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| This course covers attachment, trauma, unmet
needs and helping children to recover and adapt. |
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Beyond Childhood: Helping traumatised children make the transition to adult life |
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| This course covers transitions, resilience,
human ecology, assessing resilience and making
plans. |
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Building Identity: Celebrating diversity in the care of traumatised children |
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| This course covers identity, diversity, infant
attachment and enabling traumatised children to
form a strong sense of identity and to celebrate
diversity. |
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Caring for the Carers: Preventing and treating secondary traumatic stress disorders |
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| 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. |
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Contact: Working with issues of identity and stability |
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| This course covers understanding the complexity
of contact and making child-centred contact
plans. |
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Family Ties: Working with issues in the care of siblings |
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| This course covers the complexity of sibling
relationships, assessment and planning. |
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Healing Environments: Helping children to recover from trauma |
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| This course explores healing environments and
the planning and changes required to establish
them. |
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How To Be Good: Shame and the development of social learning |
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| This course covers attachment and the
development of self-regulation and how to help
children to recover from and adapt to acquired
impairments. |
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Learn the Child: Supporting the education of traumatised children |
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| This course covers the impact of trauma on the
education of children and strategies for
supporting the education of traumatised children. |
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Life Story Work: Enabling children to make sense of their lives |
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| This course covers child development and the
creation of narrative and enabling traumatised
children to form a strong and positive personal
narrative. |
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Men in Child Care: Gender, power and risk management |
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| This course covers the social context of men
working with children and assessing and managing
the risks. |
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Moving On: Managing transitions and endings in the care of traumatised children |
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| This course covers resilience and promoting
successful transitions and constructive endings. |
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Safer Caring: Managing risk and reducing vulnerability |
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| This course covers understanding hazards, risks,
vulnerability and assessing and managing risks
in caring for children. |
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Sexualised Behaviour: Working safely with sexually traumatised children |
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| This course will tech you to understand and
recognise the needs of a sexually traumatised
child or young person. |
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Sharing the Care: Birth children in foster families |
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| This course explores being a birth child in a
foster family, managing risk and promoting
resilience. |
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Supervising Foster Care: Promoting and managing therapeutic family life |
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| 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. |
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Trauma and Antisocial Behaviour: Working effectively with young offenders |
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| This course covers childhood trauma, antisocial
behaviour and helping children to develop
prosocial behaviour. |
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Trauma and Resilience: Recovery and adaptation after overwhelming stress |
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| This course covers attachment, the development
of self-regulation and helping children to
recover from, and adapt to, acquired impairments. |
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You Can’t Choose Your Parents: Surviving exposure to chaotic lifestyles |
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| 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. |
The following links provide additional information and resources relating to Face-to-Face Courses.
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Booking Face to Face Courses |
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