The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions (Therapeutic Parenting Books)

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When this is achieved, both parent and child feel safe and lovable enough to engage in a healthy attachment-bond.”

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Therapeutic Parenting uses firm but fair boundaries and routines to aid the development of new neural pathways in the brain so children may gain trust in adults. And so their lower brain (survival brain) may connect with their higher brain (prefrontal cortex/thinking brain) so they can link cause and effect. In this episode, Jane sets out an array of simple but effective strategies that help to reset a child’s understanding of what is appropriate behaviour between children and adults. And how can parents successfully raise traumatized siblings so that they retain happy memories of their childhood? It’s is a high nurturing way of parenting that aims to make a child feel safe again, usually around adults,’ says Jefferies. ‘During the period between 0-3 a child’s brain is still forming so, for example, if a child cried and didn’t get fed, that developmental pathway is turned off so it can’t distinguish if it’s hungry or not.’

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A parenting approach that you can use that will promote a feeling of safety for your child or children is called PACE – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy. If this still doesn’t apply to your child therapeutic parenting techniques can still help parents and children who are struggling with certain issues. Fi Newood, foster-adopt mum, psychotherapist, author and trainer. Why do we parent therapeutically? Or the one that seemed to know exactly what was going on everywhere else but was paying no attention at all to the lesson?

The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions

Curiosity: showing that they understand their child’s behaviour. Curiosity also helps parents teach their child how to understand their own behaviour But she advises learning to differentiate between what is normal childhood curiousity and what is clearly entirely improper knowledge. Find out more about compassion fatigue in this study commissioned by Sarah Naish of Fostering Attachments Ltd. Self-care as a foster carerMost are based on principles of building safe, strong relationships that combine affection and comforting along with clear behavioural expectations and routines, ‘ explains Hughes. ‘Therapeutic parenting is especially developed for parenting children who manifest special needs, whether they be based on stressful or traumatic life events or constitutional factors.’ Hughes’ words are echoed by Jefferies, who states that therapeutic parenting enables children ‘to self-regulate and develop an understanding of their behaviours and ultimately form secure attachments which will, ultimately, minimise the impact of childhood trauma.’ There are many types of therapeutic parenting,’ says Dr Dan Hughes, a US-based clinician specialising in children with emotional and behavioural problems. Hughes developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). Sarah Naish is the CEO and Founder of the Centre for Excellence in Child Trauma. She has been the keynote speaker at conferences around the world and is the UK’s best-selling author on therapeutic parenting.