Bridges and Anchors

Therapeutic Parenting Approaches for Transition Challenges for Adopted Children

This NEW therapeutic parenting programme has been specifically designed to help you navigate your children’s transition challenges. Led by Clinical Psychologists Dr Helen Kirkaldie & Dr Victoria James-Perkins, this 4-week course will take place on Thursdays from the 20^th of November to the 11^th of December.

Therapeutic Aims

— Learning to use Attachment and Trauma-Informed therapeutic approaches to understand how early separations and losses impact your child’s experience of everyday transitions.

— Learning to use Attachment and Trauma-Informed therapeutic understandings and approaches to practice transitions with your child and prepare for significant transitions on the horizon (e.g. change of school, holiday, moving house).

— Recognising and responding to maladaptive responses to transitions (e.g. avoidance, anxiety, rage).

— Learning to adapt expectations and approaches to a child’s developmental stage (which may be different to their chronological age).

Booking

— Open to all adoptive parents from CCS Adoption, Adoption West and any other agency.

— Please return this Reservation Form to therapeuticservices@ccsadoption.org. Once this form has been received, an acknowledgement email will be sent to you, and you will be placed on our reservation list.

— If you have marked on the reservation form that you wish to fund your place via the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), we will take receipt of this form as your agreement for us to contact your Local Authority (LA) in order to request that they apply for funding from the ASGSF.

— Once notification of ASGSF funding is received from the LA and confirmed to CCS Adoption, your place(s) on the course will be confirmed via email.