psychologically informed consultation & training
CONSULTATION & TRAINING
CONSULTATION
Building Bridges provides consultation to social workers, residential care teams, and other child-care professionals within health, education, and social work services.
Consultation provides an opportunity for professionals to discuss a particular child or family and to gain a psychologically informed perspective. It can help in understanding issues, such as attachment needs, child development, mental health issues, contact issues and placement planning, and can help to access appropriate interventions or signposting to relevant services. Examples include: pre-proceeding consultation to social workers and consultation to education staff around managing a particular child’s needs in the classroom environment.
This may involve a one-to-one meeting, or may be attended by a number of staff, be a short-term intervention or part of a rolling programme.
TRAINING
Building Bridges provides training to parents, carers and professionals to assist them in understanding and making a difference in children’s lives.
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Our training workshops can be tailored according to individual needs. Training topics include the following:
O1.
DEVELOPMENTAL
TRAUMA
What is developmental trauma and how does it impact on children and the people who care for them?
O2.
UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT
Understanding attachment styles and how to build secure bonds with insecurely attached children.
O3.
THERAPEUTIC PARENTING
An introduction to therapeutic parenting and the use of PACE parenting techniques to care for traumatised children.
O4.
BUILDING RESILIENCE IN TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN
What is resilience and how can we build resilience in children with a history of adversity?
O5.
LIFE STORY
WORK
Helping children develop a coherent and healing narrative about their past.
O6.
UNDERSTANDING SEXUALIZED BEHAVIOUR
Understanding and working with sexualised behaviour in children with a history of sexual abuse.
O7.
MANAGING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR
Understanding and working with challenging behaviour in children with a history of trauma.
O8.
SEXUALLY HARMFUL BEHAVIOUR
Assessing and managing risk in children and/or adolescents with a history of harmful sexual behaviour.
O9.
SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS
Assessing sibling dynamics and key issues to consider in Together or Apart assessments.
