Akamas
Experience Learning
YOU CAN’T CHOOSE YOUR PARENTS: SURVIVING EXPOSURE TO CHAOTIC LIFESTYLES
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.
Content and Structure
Session one: The impact of living with these issues
- Parental substance misuse
- Domestic violence and traumatic stress in children
- Mental health issues and child development
- Assessing the impact: signs and indicators of distress
- Creating an environment in which the child feels safe
- Teaching children about attachment and trauma
- Helping children to make sense of their world
- Promoting resilience: rewriting the script and developing choice
- Implications for practice
- Evaluation
Learning Outcomes
This course will enable you:
- To recognise the impact of parental substance misuse on children and young people
- To indicate the long-term effects for children of living with domestic violence
- To set parental mental health issues in the context of child development
- To think about strategies for enabling children and young people to survive and thrive
Key Features
The price includes provision of training packs consisting of:
- Course outlines
- Handouts
- Evaluation sheets
- Attendance certificates
Booking Information
If you have any questions or would like to request details by post, please complete our Enquiry Form or call 01453 541860.
"Akamas has delivered training in a professional manner which has been well planned and positively received by staff. I would be happy to recommend their training to other organisations."
Pritpal Sodhi - Training and Development Manager (Fostering and Adoption), Kent County Council
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