When the young person that you care for has been through trauma at some point in their life, and you want an ‘in’ to start to talk about that. Sometimes you can use symbolism as that spark that you need to make a start. This video makes use of a sandwheel.. as a means to…
This video describes my findings on working with young people who have a severely ambivalent young person. There’s a fear to them that leads to manipulative, controlling and aggressive behaviours.
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…
These are an important element to the lessening of behaviours that challenge. If you understand what these are, and work with your young person to exercise the use of these in them – then you will have a young person who is more aware of their own feelings and yours. Someone who is more ‘workable’…
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…
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…
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.