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 we liked it so much that for a few years we gave a free copy of it to our new carers, to help with their induction training and understanding of our ethos.
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’…
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…
It’s so important – you will never de-escalate anyone if you are de-escalated yourself.
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…
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
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.