The Downward Inflection Voice This video explains how to use the downward inflection voice – to be used when telling your child something that they probably won’t like, but it is fact, and you aren’t going to change your mind – but you are conveying the message without it being threatening, aggressive or stirring up…
This is our introduction to you – of who we are and a bit about our background in fostering and then in residential care. We then include our top tips for new carers… One of our later influences in how we worked was Dr Amber Elliott’s – Why Can’t My Child Behave – in fact…
A very important part of behavioural management of any young person – is you knowing the rules, and having an understanding of the game! If you are having to manage high emotions from a young person – then you need to know how those emotions work to be able to deal with them successfully. So…
As parents and carers we need to be therapists, key workers and educators for our young people. In the aspect of emotional intelligence – this is what I see the role of carer to be…
And below is an example of when I found the fear – the reason why a young person had escalated behaviours. I couldn’t be precious about the swearing or the tantrum – I needed to find the source of the behaviour – and that was, as in many, many other situations – was FEAR!
Quite often we notice in our gut, that these new behaviours that challenge are an increase on the usual level. This page will detail the strategy on what to do in this situation. First of all I would suggest that you look for the Fear… the videos below explain what I mean on this and…
This is a great emotional learning tool… and we will have other videos out suggesting ways to use it with your young person. The image for the Anger Volcano can be downloaded for free at: https://camhsprofessionals.co.uk/2021/03/31/the-anger-volcano-%f0%9f%8c%8d
It’s so important – you will never de-escalate anyone if you are de-escalated yourself.