How To Begin To Heal Emotional Trauma
Are there ways that we can think positively about trauma? Will doing so enable us to move forward toward healing. Here’s 5 questions that might help.
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What is Developmental Trauma?
Developmental Trauma is currently the diagnosis in fostering and adoption that doesn’t actually exist. So what is it and how might politics be effecting young people with it from getting support? #fostering #fostercare #adoption
Continue readingDifferent Traumas in Fostering & Adoption
Trauma: difficult to experience, difficult to define. Here’s some trauma terms that may be helpful to those living and working within #fostering and #adoption.
Continue readingWhy I Don’t Promise Permanency to Foster-Adopt Children.
Children need to belong. But how do we talking about belonging in fostering and adoption without making promises we may not be able to keep. Can we offer permanence in a way that relieves a child’s anxiety without causing further distress if they have to move on from us? Read more to find out. #fostering #adoption
Continue readingWhen the Easter Bunny is Too Generous!
Easter is a time to combine family get togethers with excessive amounts of chocolate. Not always a good combination for fostered and adopted children. This blog explores a different approach in #fostering and #adoption
Continue readingWhy We Are Foster Parents not Foster Carers
There is a move within the UK to stop using the term ‘foster carer’ and instead embrace the words ‘foster parent’. This blog explores the benefits of such a move and considers how the way we define our relationship may impact our young people.
Continue readingWhen Empathy Isn’t Enough in Fostering and Adoption
Empathy is often seen as something to focus on within therapeutic parenting. Developing a child’s ability to understand other people’s thoughts and feeling is clearly going to have benefits but is empathy really the key to appropriate child development?
Could focusing on empathy alone actually cause issues for foster-adopt children and their parents?
This blog considers that it might be.
5 Reasons Foster-Adopt Children Find Friendships Hard
Friendships are important to us all and yet they can be such a struggle to children who have been adopted or are living in foster care.
Here’s a blog about 5 reasons why this might be the case.
Continue readingMy New Book for Foster & Adoptive Parents
How you ever felt that maybe you just aren’t good-enough as a parent? That maybe fostering or adopting was not the right choice for you and in hindsight you realise that you just don’t have
Continue reading10 Reasons ‘Fresh Starts’ Don’t Work in Fostering & Adoption
I used to think it was good practice to offer a fresh start to a child who had misbehaved. Now I feel differently. I think we can be much more therapeutic by not doing so. Read this blog to find our why.
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