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Assessing Emotional Capacity in Prospective Adopters, Foster Carers and Special Guardians
Description:
We all agree that adopted and Looked After children need ‘therapeutic’ parents and carers but what does that actually mean? This training day will explore some of the emotional components of therapeutic parenting, and how we might assess whether prospective adopters and carers ‘have what it takes’.
The day will particularly focus on assessing adults’ attachment styles and the implications of problematic adult attachment issues when it comes to parenting traumatised children. It is NOT aimed at assessing readiness to adopt following loss, infertility, bereavement, etc. specifically, but rather at how social workers can become more able to assess the emotional capacity of prospective carers, and how this can be evidenced in Prospective Adopters Reports.
Date: Wednesday 4 June | Time: 10.00am to 4.30pm| Venue: Family Action Head Office, London N1 7GR (fully accessible with lift and wheelchair access ramp)
Who should attend
Social workers and other professionals (such as panel members) working in adoption and permanency.
Please note: Refreshments (tea, coffee, water and biscuits) will be provided. Lunch is NOT provided - you are welcome to bring your own food in and eat at the venue or can buy lunch from the high street on City Road - during the one hour lunch break - which is a short 5 minute walk from the venue. We are not able to provide any parking - the venue is a 10 minute walk from Angel and Old Street Underground Stations (both Northern Line) with lots of bus stops close by.
Participants will learn to:
- Get clearer about adult attachment and understand its implications for adopters/ carers and the children they care for.
- Learn how to get to know prospective adopters’ and carers’ emotional strengths and vulnerabilities despite the constraints of the current process and timescales.
- Increase your confidence in working with the emotions.
- Improve your ability to evidence your assessments of emotional capacity.
Facilitator
Fiona Start is an adoption counsellor and social worker with PAC-UK. Prior to joining PAC-UK, she managed a Special Guardianship assessment team, having previously managed adoption and post adoption teams and worked as an assessing social worker for 15 years. She was one of the first social workers to use the Attachment Style Interview in the assessment of prospective adopters.
Price excluding VAT
£150 per person - PAC-UK Subscribing Local Authorities
£170 per person - Non-PAC-UK Subscribing Local Authorities
Please note: If you work for a RAA that subscribes to PAC-UK, with approval from your Head of Service you may be able to use General Allocations within our SLA to fund your place.
If you require an invoice, please choose this as the payment option below and let us know if a Purchase Order Number (PON) is required.
You also have the option to make instant payment via PAC-UK PayPal - you do not need a PayPal account yourself in order to make payment.
If you have any questions about this in-person event, please call 0300 1800 085 or email fiona.start@pac-uk.org.
IMPORTANT: To ensure we are alerted to your booking you must 'Confirm Registration' after submitting your details. You will also get a confirmation email when you do this.
If you do not receive the confirmation email within a few minutes, please check your Junk folder just in case the confirmation email got delivered there instead of your Inbox. If so, select the confirmation message and mark it Not Junk, which should allow future messages to get through.
Once you have confirmed registration you must select an 'online' or 'off-line' payment option. If paying by Debit/Credit card you must click on the PayPal icon under 'On-line Payment Processing'. You will be redirected to a PayPal screen where you can either login to PayPal (if you have a PayPal account) OR click on the 'Check Out as a Guest' button where you can pay via Debit/Credit card without needing to login to a PayPal account.
