Workshop 4 of 4: Working with parents/caregivers

11-18 programme for Children and Families Practitioners working with young people (11-18) will comprise a series of four one day workshops and four practice and coaching sessions

Summary of learning outcomes

Each workshop and practice and coaching session is mapped against the Post-qualifying

standard: Knowledge and skills statement for child and family practitioners (DfE, May 2018).

Participants will learn how to:

• analyse patterns of strengths and difficulties across the range of children’s

developmental needs, parenting capacity, and family and environmental factors

• working with children, young people and their parents/caregivers to set goals, make

plans for intervention and deciding how to measure the impact of interventions over

time

• work with parents/caregivers who have been responsible for physically, sexually or

emotionally abusive actions towards their children/young people, have neglected

their care, or have exposed them to domestic violence, drug and alcohol misuse and

parental mental health problems.

• work with children and young people to address the emotional, behavioural and

developmental impairments associated with being exposed to abusive and neglectful

parenting

• working with children and young people who are showing disruptive behaviour

problems

• help parents/caregivers understand the factors that lead children/young people to

behave in a disruptive fashion, to misbehave, and to find ways to change this

Summary of learning outcomes

Each workshop and practice and coaching session is mapped againstthe Post-qualifying standard: Knowledge and skills statement for
child and family practitioners (DfE, May 2018).

Participants will learn how to:

• analyse patterns of strengths and difficulties across the range of children’s developmental needs, parenting capacity, and family and
environmental factors

• working with children, young people and their parents/caregivers to set goals, make  plans for intervention and deciding how to measure the impact of interventions over time

• work with parents/caregivers who have been responsible for physically, sexually or emotionally abusive actions towards their children/young people, have neglected their care, or have exposed them to domestic violence, drug and
alcohol misuse and parental mental health problems.

• work with children and young people to address the emotional,behavioural and developmental impairments associated with being exposed to abusive and neglectful  parenting

• working with children and young people who are showing  disruptive behaviour problems

• help parents/caregivers understand the factors that lead children/young people to behave in a disruptive fashion, to misbehave, and to find ways to change this