Designed as a professional complement to Sarah Naish's bestselling A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting, this tried and tested resource offers practical tools for all professionals supporting therapeutic families. Based on the latest research, and with photocopiable worksheets, pro formas and charts to use with parents, these tools will help you to build supportive and stable relationships with families and reduce family breakdown. The resource is structured into three parts: 1. The Trauma Tracker Tool - designed to support the stability of the family and to predict possible incidents by providing an understanding of the presenting behaviours in the context of the child's history 2. The Developmental Foundation Planner - to help professionals to identify and address unmet developmental needs in a structured way as soon as a child is placed with a family and thereby help reduce instances of family breakdown 3. The Behaviour - Assessment of Impact and Resolution Tool (BAIRT) - which enables practitioners of most levels to engage in a step by step intervention, breaking down the most complex behaviours with a problem solving supportive process, thereby reducing the effects of blocked care and enabling engagement with parents in an honest, positive process. Simple to use, and easy to implement, these tools will enable you to create therapeutic, trauma-informed assessments, intervention and support.
Sarah Naish is author of bestselling parenting guide The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting. She is an adoptive parent, CEO of The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma, founder of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents, and SAfER Fostering, director of Inspire Training Group and author of the hugely popular Therapeutic Parenting Books series. Sarah Dillon is a Director and Therapeutic Lead of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents. She is also a therapist, specialising in working intensively within fostering and adoption, attachment difficulties, complex and developmental trauma, and spent much of her childhood in the care system. Jane Mitchell is a founding member and Director of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents. She has 15 years' experience delivering training to families parenting children with trauma, and is an adoptive parent, as well as co-author of the hugely popular Therapeutic Parenting Essentials.
Practical Tools for social workers and those working in child welfare with traumatized children and therapeutic parents which will support family stability, resolve presenting complex issues , help to meet developmental needs and reduce the risk of family breakdown
