DDP PACE training will help you to understand the impact of developmental trauma and the challenges that children with this experience can struggle with. It introduces how the experience of PACE within a DDP-informed approach can start to help these children to recover trust and safety.
It also explores PACE as a way of being with adults of all ages to provide a secure foundation for relationships to grow and thrive. Drawing on their capacity for regulation and reflection, DDP PACE helps adults who support children to emotionally connect with them in ways which increase feelings of safety and trust.
This two day DDP PACE training will provide the Core DDP PACE Content (minimum of 15 hrs).
What is PACE?
PACE stands for playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy. It was created by Dr. Dan Hughes, the founder of DDPI and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), as a core aspect of DDP. PACE is central to DDP-informed parenting and teaching.
More information about PACE can be found on our What is meant by PACE? page.
Core concepts include:
- Why children who have experienced developmental trauma, behave in the way they do
- What leads to children needing a different parenting approach involving PACE alongside behavioural support?
- How do we help/parent children that have experienced developmental trauma?
- What parenting capacities do parents need?
- Understanding what PACE is, and what it is not
- Using PACE alongside regulation and behavioural support
- The importance of self care, and blocked care
- Practical strategies for living and learning
Who is it for?
This training is aimed at a wide range of professionals and adults who work with, teach, support and provide care for children and young people who have experienced early life trauma. This includes foster and kinship carers, birth families and parents, workers supporting birth families and foster and kinship placements, residential care staff, youth workers, teachers/educational staff, as well as other professionals working with children.
If you are a professional and intend to incorporate DDP into your clinical work supporting all family members including parents and carers and those in a supervisory role (such as service leaders, managers, counsellors, therapists or psychologists), we advise that you attend a DDP Level One training.
Once you have completed this 2 Day Core DDP PACE training you will receive your certificate and can describe yourself as: ‘developing my use of DDP PACE within my practice’
Organiser
The Child Psychology Service CIC (TCPS)
Contact: The Child Psychology Service admin team at enquiries@thechildpsychologyservice.co.uk or 01283 840051
More details
Facilitated by Aarti Daya and Fran Ford
Please contact the organiser using the details above to book your place and for more information.
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