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Family Futures Newsletter, June 2019
In this issue:
- An adoptive parent discusses Theraplay® with Sarah Kerrigan, Senior Dramatherapist at Family Futures. Watch the latest video in our Helping Families Heal series
- Siblings - Free Practice Paper updated June 2019
- New training course for professionals - The Impact of Trauma in Infancy on Child Development
- Upcoming training courses - continuing professional development/ parent education programme
- Family Futures Consultancy Service
- Bespoke training for your organisation
- Next Information Evening for prospective adopters, 10 July 2019
- Research update
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Helping Families Heal interviews - 2 - Sarah Kerrigan discusses Theraplay®
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This month we are delighted to let you know about the latest video in our Helping Families Heal series, hosted by a parent who has adopted a child through Family Futures. How Theraplay® helps children who have experienced complex trauma is discussed with Sarah Kerrigan who is a Senior Dramatherapist at Family Futures and Theraplay Practitioner in training with intermediate status. Sarah demonstrates some Theraplay games in a role play and answers questions that adoptive parents have about how assessments and sessions work, how you can integrate Theraplay into your home routine and tips on finding a Theraplay practitioner for your family.
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Assessing Sibling Placements
Free Practice Paper - updated June 2019
Our Siblings practice paper, now updated, has been widely referred to by professionals since it was first published in 2009. Whether siblings are placed together or separately is a complex clinical judgement that requires a comprehensive assessment and an understanding of the impact of trauma on the individual child's development and on the development of sibling relationships in infancy. We also have a duty of care to adoptive parents and their family life in its totality, supporting them to developmentally re-parent a traumatised child.
You can download this free practice paper here:
Assessing Siblings Placements, June 2019 |
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 New training course
The Impact of Trauma in Infancy on Child Development
7 & 8 October 2019
This new training course is designed to provide professionals with interventions to support adopted and looked after children in their placements. You will gain a theoretical understanding of developmental trauma, sensory integration, the impact of trauma on arousal regulation plus how this affects a child's ability to regulate psychological responses to stress.
This training is for social workers in Looked After Children, fostering and adoption teams, adoption/fostering team managers, clinical psychologists, paediatric occupational therapists, therapists, solicitors, panel members, adoption support agency providers, psychiatrists, paediatricians and teachers.
Find out more/book your place here |
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Professional Development Training programme
Have a look at our upcoming courses for professionals and follow the links to find out more or book your place:
Our trainers are UK-based & Certified Theraplay therapists, supervisors and trainers.
The Theraplay courses listed below are for psychologists and psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers, speech and language therapists, counsellors, adoption and post-adoption counsellors, family therapists, early childhood & developmental specialists and teachers.
New Theraplay Supervision and Refresher day
Due to popular demand Family Futures is now running a Theraplay refresher day three times a year to offer professionals in a group forum the opportunity to have supervision, to refresh their ideas on Theraplay practice and to ask any Theraplay questions. To register your interest please email training@familyfutures.co.uk
Theraplay Level One and Group Training
21 to 25 October 2019
Find out more about Theraplay Level One and Group Training or book your place here
Theraplay Level Two
25 to 27 November 2019
Find out more about Theraplay Level Two or book your place here
 Therapeutic Life Story Work
1 to 3 October 2019
Address difficult issues from the past with traumatised children using this framework for meaningful and therapeutic life story work. This training is designed for social workers working with adopted and Looked After children.
Find out more or book your place here
 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Dr Dan Hughes will deliver this training on his treatment model which involves working with a child and their family to improve attachment relationships.
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level One
27 to 30 January 2020
For therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers.
Find out more about DDP Level One or book your place here
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level Two
3 to 6 February 2020
For therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers. To become an accredited DDP therapist, individuals will need to complete Levels 1 and 2 training, produce 10 DVDs and participate in supervision carried out by an accredited DDP therapist.
Find out more about DDP Level Two or book your place here
Training for Professionals leaflet to share with colleagues
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Family Futures consultancy service
 A successful way of embedding new training into your organisation's practice
Read more or contact us if you are interested in discussing how our consultancy service could be useful for your organisation.
"It has given us all confidence to go forward with this complex area of work (Siblings Together or Apart assessments) in a way we would not have been able to do by ourselves. The consultation along with the training was a great help for all of us to consolidate our recent learning and put the theory into practice...Sue’s support and guidance also enabled us to create a framework that works for us locally." Clinical Lead of Therapeutic Services, Department of Health and Social Care, Children and Families, Isle of Man
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Bespoke training for your organisation
“Clinical examples really brought activities to life”
Our tailored training courses allow you to select the skills or service development areas you would like to develop through staff training. We offer one-off courses or a rolling programme of training. Call 020 7354 4161 or email us to discuss your training needs.
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Do you know anyone considering adoption?
 Information Evening for Prospective adopters
Wednesday 10 July, 7pm at Family Futures, London
We prepare adopters to become therapeutic parents and provide extra support throughout the adoption journey to support the child, the adopters and their network with our multi-disciplinary team. The information evening on 10 July will last about an hour with a presentation and an opportunity to ask us questions. Please email us to let us know if you are coming. For any questions about the adoption process please call us on 020 7354 4161 between 9:30 and 16:30 Monday to Thursday. You can also find out more here.
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Research Update
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - an evidence review
Individuals who have experienced four or more ACEs are at higher risk of suffering the detrimental effects associated with ACEs. This review by Public Health Wales, in conjunction with the Public Health Collaborating Unit at Bangor University, presents evidence of interventions to prevent and address adversity across the life course. It provides a broad overview of the international evidence on interventions and identifies a number of cost-effective, evidence-based interventions to prevent ACEs and support those affected by ACEs.
Maternal lifetime trauma exposure and negative infant arousal
This article on how maternal lifetime trauma exposure impacts negative infant arousal post birth (measured at 6 months), regardless of the environment in-utero, is particularly relevant when little is known about a child’s in-utero experience but there is a significant maternal trauma history:
"The analyses suggested that maternal lifetime trauma exposure is associated with several domains of infant negative affectivity independently of maternal stress exposures during pregnancy and that some of these associations may be modified by prenatal cortisol exposure. The findings have implications for understanding the intergenerational impact of trauma exposure on child developmental outcomes."
Enlow, Michelle Bosquet et al. “Maternal Lifetime Trauma Exposure, Prenatal Cortisol, and Infant Negative Affectivity.” Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies vol. 22,4 (2017): 492-513. doi:10.1111/infa.12176
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