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The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions (Therapeutic Parenting Books)

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I’m an international best-selling author and key-note speaker in therapeutic parenting. I have Adopted 5 children and am a former foster parent as well as the founder of The National Association of Therapeutic Parents, which now has over 10,000 members and provides a hub of information and support to carers of traumatised children. As well as having a team ethos, the agency also has a family feel, where the fostering families are at the forefront of our amazing team. It’s like being part of a massive friendly family. A parenting approach that you can use that will promote a feeling of safety for your child or children is called PACE – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy.

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This leads to all sorts of complicated and unexpected behaviour patterns at any time, but particularly during family celebrations. She was rejecting, rude, defensive, angry and aggressive. The reality was that she was also avoidant, not wanting to ask for or accept help, as well as ambivalent, in that she did not expect me to meet her needs. To me, she was Rosie, and we just took each day, or hour, as it came. For me as a personal safety coach and physical intervention expert witness and advisor, it has been so interesting to talk to the parents about that moment – where they are feeling challenged about how they are still committed to being therapeutic in their approach and yet they have a moment where they are feeling physically threatened by the child, yet they are still trying to be therapeutic. And there’s a balance about feeling protected in yourself, so that you can then be effective in employing therapeutic approaches. Billed as “your roadmap of strategies through to sanity”, reflected the difficulties that come with parenting traumatised children as well as the need for self-care to build the resilience required to keep going.

I became a qualified social worker in 2016 and I have experience of working in children’s social care for a local authority and in the private sector. I have a degree in Psychology and a master’s in Social Work. As Sarah says, raising traumatized children can test relationships to the limit but she presents three effective strategies to combat the problem.

A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting by Sarah Naish | Waterstones The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting by Sarah Naish | Waterstones

In the first edition of Series 2, you’ll hear plenty of therapeutic parenting strategies for coping with the inevitable loneliness and isolation experienced by the parents of traumatised children. Meet Sarah Naish, CEO and Founder of the Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma and the author of best selling books on Therapeutic Parenting. Hughes’ words are echoed by Jefferies, who states that therapeutic parenting enables children ‘to self-regulate and develop an understanding of their behaviours and ultimately form secure attachments which will, ultimately, minimise the impact of childhood trauma.’

As Jane explains, this behaviour is a symptom of the child’s sense of overwhelm triggered by traumatic memories. They’re not conscious of what they’re doing and parents need to put into place careful plans and strategies to cope. The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma’s November 2021 conference focused on a huge variety of issues that challenge parents and social workers nationwide.

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I enjoy working for TRUE supporting the families, spending time with the children and being part of a therapeutic team, which feels like a family to make a difference in helping young people’s lives. Respond with empathy using the PACE model (playfulness to connect and diffuse a situation, acceptance of the child whilst not accepting of aggression, curiosity to detect your child’s need, all steeped in empathy).​ This episode’s guest, Sarah Dillon, the COECT’s Therapeutic Lead, has helped many parents and children overcome wee and poo issues using therapeutic parenting-inspired strategies. Therapeutic parenting is often regarded as being exclusively for traumatised children who have nearly always been in care, fostered or adopted. But this isn’t always the case.Most are based on principles of building safe, strong relationships that combine affection and comforting along with clear behavioural expectations and routines, ‘ explains Hughes. ‘Therapeutic parenting is especially developed for parenting children who manifest special needs, whether they be based on stressful or traumatic life events or constitutional factors.’

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In this episode Iain talked about the film “Instant Family”as the one that originally inspired him and his wife to investigate fostering further. Empathy involves us opening our hearts and minds so that we can share in what others feel. When this is other people’s pain and despair, it can make us vulnerable.It’s is a high nurturing way of parenting that aims to make a child feel safe again, usually around adults,’ says Jefferies. ‘During the period between 0-3 a child’s brain is still forming so, for example, if a child cried and didn’t get fed, that developmental pathway is turned off so it can’t distinguish if it’s hungry or not.’ Rosie is also the Managing Director of the National Association of Therapeutic Parenting (NATP) and spoke most movingly at the conference with colleague Sarah Dillon about their personal surivival stories during the National Conference day in Solihull.

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