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Assessing Emotional Capacity in Prospective Adopters, Foster Carers and Special Guardians
Price: £204.00
Date: June 4, 2025
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)
Availability: Spaces remaining.
PAC-UK Training service user feedback
It was a pleasure to meet you and hear you speak. It was just right and hit the spot for our audience.Education officer
I wish more people would access trainings like this.Mental health professional
The trainer was fantastic. Her insights so helpful... I was left wanting more.Teacher
More training like this please!Social worker
