Everyday Parenting with Security and Love
Using PACE to Provide Foundations for Attachment
Subject: Parenting
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource
The Six-Session Programme for Parents of Traumatized Children
ADAPT Scotland
ADAPT Scotland recognises that parenting and working with traumatised children is extremely challenging. Our approach helps to make that challenge a little more manageable.
Parent Groups and DDP – Betty Brouwer & Charlie Menendez
Presentation slides from 'DDP 2016 3-Day Conference' in New York
View resource: Parent Groups and DDP – Betty Brouwer & Charlie Menendez
A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Nurturing Attachments Group Programme
The Nurturing Attachments groupwork programme is a DDP-informed intervention developed by Kim Golding. In 2016 the UK Government's DfE funded Adoptionplus to carry out an evaluation of the programme across 4 geographical sites for adoptive families.
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children
Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
View resource: Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children
Parental Compassion and Attachment Focused Treatment
Why it’s crucial to help parents resolve their ambivalence towards the mistrusting child
View resource: Parental Compassion and Attachment Focused Treatment
Assessing Adoptive and Foster Parents
Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity. Combining theory and practice guidance for professionals, this is a guide to assessing foster or adoptive parents. Contributors are David Howe, Joanne Alper, Dr John Simmonds, Kim Golding, Daniel Hughes, Ben Gurney-Smith, Jon Baylin
CairnsMoir Connections
CairnsMoir Connections, a UK organisation, based in Scotland, offer conference bookstalls, online sales and resource signposting for those living or working with children impacted by trauma.
Jan Ross “DDP: An Adopter’s Perspective”. DDP UK Conference Birmingham 10-11 Nov 2014
Jan gave a parent’s experience of DDP therapy and therapeutic parenting of a child with complex needs both within a therapy session and during her daughter’s day to day life. Jan touched on ways that she and her daughter keep the lines of communication open when the spoken word is sometimes not possible.
View resource: Jan Ross “DDP: An Adopter’s Perspective”. DDP UK Conference Birmingham 10-11 Nov 2014
Robert Spottswood Challenging Children Struggling Caretakers. DDP Canada Conf 6-8 Oct 2014
Robert's presentation took us through success and difficulty with the longer, slower cases. Robert says: "Not all our cases look like the successes in training tapes, and sometimes the harder cases seem to fill our case loads. This presentation will go over a brief video of a challenging case with a wounded caretaker and review some of the factors to remaining 'open and engaged' when conditions are less than ideal."
George Thompson Integrating Family, Medication & Parent Approaches in a Residential Center. DDP Canada Conf Proceedings 6-8 Oct 2014
This presentation by George Thompson and Dan Hughes discussed the integration of Dr. Thompson's use of medication to facilitate a child's ability to form an attachment to his parent and make better use of DDP interventions. George presented one of his families for which Dan provided supervision and consultation. George is the Medical Director of KidsTLC, a residential program in Olathe, KS, which is in the process of becoming certified as a DDP Organization.
Holding on and hanging in
The story of a boy, his foster family and their journey from trauma to healing. This compelling story tracks Wayne’s journey from first being fostered by Lorna at the age of nine, in a therapeutic fostering placement, through nearly four years of family life.
