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Children in Wales
Added This MonthChildren in Wales run a range of courses for those working with children and families mostly in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Courses include:
- The Impact of Lifestyle on Child Behaviour
- Building Attachment: Theory into Practice
- Harnessing Emotional Intelligence
- Infant Mental Health and Wellbeing
A Solution Focused Approach to Working with Children, Young People & Families
Facilitated by Eileen Murphy
The Solution Focused Brief Therapy model is not confined to being used in "therapy" but is a practical, empowering, strengths based approach that can be harnessed by workers across all fields for "conversations" around coping skills and achieving change to provide best outcomes for clients - including: Family Support workers, School Parent Support Assistants, Primary & Secondary TSAs, Youth Offending staff.
Traditionally, Psychotherapy has focused on identifying the problems presented by individual pathologies and deficiencies. Solution Focused Brief Therapy shifts the focus from pathology and deficit toward examining "what works"; "how it works", progressing to focus on developing personal strengths, competence and resources.
This new course includes research and findings from across the Neurosciences and the trainer will be encouraging participants to experiment with harm-free behavioural change ideas for implementation with their client group.
For more information go to www.brief-therapy-uk.com
Adlerian Summer Schools
The Adlerian Summer School runs a week of experiential workshops every August in Buckinghamshire based on the philosophy of Alfred Adler. The summer school is aimed at both professional and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists, teacher, carers, and anyone interested to learn more about themselves. This years theme is Parenting. Workshops include: Authority in Parenting; Couple Counselling; Facilitation Skills and Group Work; Bereavement & Loss in Families; Parenting; Co-dependency & Familes.
Barnardos's training learning consultancy (tlc)
Barnardos's tlc provides a training, learning and consultancy service to organisations throughout the UK in all matters relating to children, young people and families. They have an in-depth understanding of both the public and private sectors, as well as voluntary and community organisations. They can tailor their services to your requirements from strategic support programmes to implementing the changes of Every Child Matters or Changing Lives across the UK, to consultancy projects that cover a wide varitey of areas from the structural changes in the development of Children's Trusts to the integrated responsibilities of outcomes in local authorities.
Training topics include: Equality and Diversity; Monitoring and Evaluation; Recording Skills; Setting and Evidencing Oucomes; Family Group Conferencing; Solution focused Practice; Participation; Parenting; Babyfather Training Programme; Emotional Resillience; Emotional Wellbeing; Foster Carers training - making sense of children’s behaviours; Developing families' coping strategies; Behaviour Management; Corporate Parenting; Interagency/Partnership Working; Promoting Positive Behaviour; Understanding Child Development.
Brazelton Centre
Neontal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBO)
May 6 & 7 2010 Cardiff
Newborn Behavioural Observations Systems Training (NBAS)
September 22 & 23 2010 Newcastle
The Brazelton Centre trains health professionals and those who work with newborn babies (from birth to 8 weeks old) in the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS). The NBAS produces a profile of infant behaviour which helps to understand the baby's ways of communicating their likes and dislikes, their ability to cope with stimulation, and their ability to soothe themselves. This information is extremely helpful for parents as they strive to understand their new baby, and it provides useful caregiving tips in a collaborative relationship between parents and practitioners. This approach supports the developing parent - infant relationship, and can reduce the incidence of postnatal depression, and parenting difficulties.
Family Matters Institute
Offers training for people who run parenting courses, both specifically geared to their own courses and generically applicable to any parenting course material. Courses include:
- Want to Run a Parenting Course? (2 days), Open College Network (OCN), 6 Credits at Level 3
- Flat Pack Parent Facilitator Skills Training (2 days), OCN, 6 Credits at Level 2
Training takes place in Bedfordshire but can be provided at a venue of your choice for groups of six or more.
Handling children's behaviour parenting programme
Future Childcare Training
Location: Rugby
Training for groups of between 12 and 25 delegates is available throughout the UK
Date: 13 & 14 April 2010
Participants on this practice based two day course are trained in the use of Future Childcare Training materials to enable them to work with as many as 20 parents at any one time. The materials can also be used with parents on an individual basis. Only professionals who have undertaken the training can deliver the materials to parents.
The course is suitable for health workers, social workers, nursery officers, family support workers, family placement workers, teachers and community workers. Up to 25 professionals working in the same area can be trained together. The advantage of this type of training is that you can develop a joint and consistent approach to families in your area and also share the cost. The course has been recommended nationally to the Sure Start and Flying Start initiatives.
Implementing the Healthy Child Programme in the Perinatal Period
Warick Medical School
Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit
Warwick Medical School offers a range of CPD courses, Postgraduate Awards and Master’s courses.
Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU) provides research, training and innovation in effective evidence-based ways of supporting parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life, in order to promote the social, emotional and psychological development of infants.
2 study skills days
The programme will provide you with evidence-based information and skills that will enable you to support parenting during the perinatal period as outlined in the revised Healthy Child Programme.
The first study day focuses on working in partnership with families in the pre-natal period. Participants will learn about the transition to parenthood and reflect on the process of helping. The pre-natal promotional interview will be introduced and participants will be encouraged to conduct an interview before the second study day.
The second study day will focus on learning about the socially interactive baby and early brain development, reciprocal interactions and developing attachment. The post-natal promotional interview will be introduced.
The programme can be arranged in-house on request. Shorter one-day programmes can also be provided.
Suitable for group bookings for staff training only. Unfortunately, they are unable to cater for enquiries from individuals.
For more information email Marilyn Shepherd.
Infant and Family Wellbeing
Warick Medical School
Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit
Warwick Medical School offers a range of CPD courses, Postgraduate Awards and Master’s courses.
Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU) brings together expertise with the goal of providing research, training and innovation in effective evidence-based ways of supporting parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life, in order to promote the social, emotional and psychological development of infants.
Dates: 5 days over a year, 15 & 16 October, 25 & 26 January 2010, 29 June 2010
This post-graduate award module aims to promote the development of reflective and innovative practice to support parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life. It highlights theimportance of:
- understanding the transition to parenthood including the factors that influence infant mentalhealth during the pre and post-natal periods
- exploring theories and research from developmental psychology; neurobiology; genetics; andpsychoanalysis etc in relation to infant socio-emotional health
- observing early interaction and conducting promotional interviews
- exploring innovative evidence based ways of supporting early family relationships
The course has been designed for health visitors, midwives, community paediatricians, general practitioners, social workers, children’s centre workers and all practitioners working with infant and families in the perinatal period.
It will be of particular interest to professionals involved in the delivery of the revised Child Health Promotion Programme 0 – 3 years.
Learning in Families, Schools and Beyond BA (Hons)
Northumbria University
A four year degree course designed primarily at para-professionals already working in extended schools, Children's Centres, family settings and in the community; people aiming to work in the settings above and in multidisciplinary teams; parents and returnees to work.
The course provides the opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the growing emphasis on learning beyond schools; the principles of learning in schools, communities and families; child development; lifelong learning, inclusion, raising standards and the Every Child Matters agenda, and to develop the necessary skills and attitudes required to work in multidisciplinary settings and integrated services; to work with a wide variety of professionals, paraprofessionals and the public; to undertake activity designed to facilitate learning beyond schools; to collect and analyse evidence; to reflect upon and analyse practice of working in different settings to widen participation in learning and to contribute to the Children's Workforce.
It is hoped that some of the delivery for this degree will be through the development of distance learning, supported self-study materials and e-learning. Group contact, 2 evenings a week will be used for key lectures and seminars.
An opportunity to gain Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HTLA) status is offered annually on this programme.
Mellow Parenting
The three day training course in Mellow Parenting is run for up to 12 and aims to give participants a taste of working with a group as well as famililiarity with the materials and methods of Mellow Parenting. Participants are provided with the programme, coding manuals, an evaluation pack, training DVD and access to online support.
Mellow Parenting is a 14 week one day a week group designed to support families with relationship problems with their infants and young children. It combines personal support for parents with a video and direct work with parents and children on their own parenting problems. It has proved effective in recruiting and engaging families with severe problems.
Mellow Parenting is an evaluated programme which has been recommended by Sure Start.
Course are usually held in London or Glasgow or can be provided at a venue of your choice for a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 members of staff.
One day courses in the Mellow Babies Programme are run for Practitioners who have completed the core three day training. The programme incorporates modules for adult mental health, child care skills, child protection and activities suitable for parents and babies. The programme has been applied in a number of settings to include mothers with post natal depression and families with child protection concerns.
A copy of the Mellow Dad's programme is also available for practitioners who have done the core training.
MSc Theory and Practice of Parenting
De Montfort University
This is the first Masters level course designed specifically for people working in the field of parenting. It is a part-time/distance learning course with block study weeks held at the university in Leicester.
It provides the opportunity to choose areas of study and interact with others working in the field, and provides an enhanced portfolio of knowledge and skills.
Entry requirements are normally a 2.2 degree (eg teaching, social work, nursing); or relevant professional experience and evidence of CPD; or Dip HE or above, relevant professional experience and evidence of CPD; or pre-registration modules (up to two), to enable staff and/or students to test ability to work at Masters level.
MSc, PgD, PgC in Family Health
University of Hertfordshire
The Family Health courses are run through the Department of Nursing and Midwifery and are aimed at any professional or community workers working with families within the broadest sense of the term. Modules include Enhanced Communication Skills and Enhancing Parenting and Mental Health in Families.
Parent Coaching Works Introduction to Parent Coaching
Introduction to Parent Coaching
25 March 2010 London
One-day training to complement and develop the skills of parenting facilitators and professionals. An interactive day using parent coaching toolkit exercises to support parents both individually and in groups.
Further Parent Coaching Techniques
Builds upon the work covered in the Introduction to Parent Coaching and introduces further inspiring and effective techniques. The training focuses on resources for positive, effective and creative solutions to the challenges parents face. Materials can be used with individuals and groups and can be adapted to use with teenagers.
In house training available by arrangement.
Parent Group Leader Training in the Nurturing Programme
Family Links
Dates in Oxford:
8-11 March 2010
Dates in Hull:
3-4 and 10-11 March 2010
Training for groups of up to 16 delegates is available throughout the UK
Four day training course offering:
- a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of the Nurturing Programme for anyone working with parents and carers.
- sessions about the importance of facilitative approaches, both in group work and one-to-one support.
- resources, including The Parenting Puzzle book for parents and the Nurturing Game for families.
- the option of OCN accreditation for parents
It is designed for community professionals such as health visitors, social workers, school nurses, youth offending teams, Sure Start teams, Children's Centre staff.
The course emphasises the importance of facilitative approaches, both in group work and one-to-one support.
Islamic Values Parent Group Leader Training
Dates: 24/25 February and 3/4 March 2010
Location: Wolverhampton
This four day Parent Group Leader Training equips participants to facilitate the Nurturing Programme with Muslim parents. This training will specifically consider how the Nurturing Programme relates to Islamic values and will include the use of the document 'Islamic Values and The Parenting Puzzle'.
For more information please contact Rebecca Smilth on rebecca.smith@familylinks.org.uk
Parents as First Teachers
Parents as First Teachers train professionals to work on a one to one basis with parents and their children, pre-birth to 5 years, using the Parents as First Teachers programme delivered in the home or other appropriate setting.
The Parents as First Teachers parenting programme is a research and evidence based programme which has been recommended by Sure Start as of sufficient quality to contribute to the support through home visiting that Children's Centres are required to provide.
The Born to Learn programme 0 - 3 Years, is a comprehensive 5 day course with a follow-up 6th day. The course is designed to prepare practitioners to implement the Born to Learn programme 0 -3 Years and covers: neuroscience research on early development and learning; sequences of early childhood development in the areas of language, intellectual, social-emotional and motor development; effective instructional personal visits; facilitation of parent-child interaction; ideas for parent group meetings; ways to provide connection to community resources; service to diverse families; red flags in areas of development, hearing, vision and health; recruitment and programme organisation.
They also offer Born to Learn 3-5 Years, Introductory Supervision training for Born to Learn Programmes and Advanced Supervisor training for all supervisors. Tailor made training sessions can also be arranged.
Part-Time Diploma Courses from the School of Infant Mental Health
The School of Infant Mental Health specialise in detecting early behavioural signs of autism and early intervention with pre-autistic babies and their families.
Options include:
- Infant Mental Health - 2 year course
- Parent Infant Psychotherapy - 4 year course
- A conversion option for qualified Psychotherapists and Counsellors - 2 year course
- Infant Family Programme for infants showing autistic behaviours - 1-2 year course
Training in Infant Mental Health includes: infant and young child observation; diagnostic classification for 0-3 years; work discussion; infant development theory and research; parent infant psychotherapy.
Flexible options are available through intensive weekend sessions with monthly supervision and private tutorials. You need to be working in a professional context with infants or pre-school age children and their families, eg: family centre worker, midwife, health visitor, GP, paediatrician, clinical psychologist, social worker, specialist nurse, nursery teacher or nursery nurse.
Perinatal Mental Health
Warick Medical School
Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit
Dates: 5 days over a year, 2 & 3 December, 24 & 25 March 2010, 24 June 2010
Warwick Medical School offers a range of CPD courses, Postgraduate Awards and Master’s courses.
Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU) provides research, training and innovation in effective evidence-based ways of supporting parenting during pregnancy and the first two years of life, in order to promote the social, emotional and psychological development of infants.
This new course is a multidisciplinary postgraduate award module providing understanding of innovative ways of working to support parent and infant mental health during the perinatal period. It builds on recent evidence from a range of disciplines, including developmental psychology and neuroscience and highlights the importance of:
- women’s and men’s transition to parenthood and the development of the social baby, withparticular focus on mental health problems in the perinatal period
- developing advanced skills in the early identification of mental health problems using apartnership approach and underpinned by a model of progressive universalism
- engaging with the multidisciplinary clinical perinatal team in developing care pathways forwomen experiencing mental health difficulties
- skills in supporting sensitive parent-infant interactions and developing healthy attachments
The training involves lectures, guided reading, structured debate, observation of videos, group exercise, a case study and practicing new skills between taught parts of the course.
The course has been designed for health visitors, midwives, community paediatricians, general practitioners, social workers, children’s centre workers and all practitioners working with infant and families in the perinatal period.
It will be of particular interest to professionals involved in the delivery of the revised Child Health Promotion Programme 0 – 3 years.
Positive Parenting
Provides training for parenting educators for those who work with parents in schools and children's centres, local authorities and health authorities, community groups and churches. Their training programme includes a 4-day course for facilitators accredited through the Open College Network, 6 Credits at Level 2. This, or an equivalent 4-day course, is the basic requirement for people who want to run any of Positive Parenting's wide range of courses. Positive Parenting can tailor the learning outcomes to the needs of specific groups and organisations if required.
South Bank University Training for Working with Parents & Family Learning
The London Language Unit at South Bank University offers two City and Guilds courses of interest to those who work with, or would like to work with parents:
- Introduction to Delivering Learning - Family Learning/Work with Parents Focus, suitable for people who work in the fields of parenting education as well as family learning. It is primary aimed at people who deliver training as part of their job but who are not engaged in full-time teaching.
- Certificate in Teaching FE - Family Learning Focus (mapped to the National Occupational Standards for Family Learning), aimed at people who already teach adults and would like to work torwards a full teaching qualification in this area. Participants must be involved with teaching for a minimum of 20 hours during the course.
These courses can be customised for individual organisations and delivered on site. For more
information email.
The Art of Parenting
The Art of Parenting is a holistic educational model of parenting that consists of 3 modules. Each of the modules offers access to a variety of traditional and complementary techniques that can be used as part of a personal development programme. It is a no-blame, non- stigmatised programme that can 'stand alone' or add value to approaches that are already being used. Training is based on modelling best practice employing strategies based on the latest brain based research. The training runs for two days and has Open College accreditation. For more information email Karen Horrocks or phone 0151 708 6910.
Using Groups to Strengthen Parent-Infant Relationships: “Claiming the Baby” in the Group
Anna Freud Centre
Dates: 19 and 20 March 2010
In recent years there has been enthusiasm amongst professionals to offer parent and infant groups for help with early emotional and attachment difficulties. In practice leadership of these groups requires understanding of group processes and training in skills to engage infants equally as participants.
This two day workshop aims to develop group thinking and practice to produce leaders able to sustain successful parent and infant groups. There will be a focus upon ways of creating a group environment which maximises the potential for infant centred interactions. The teaching will draw upon models from parent-infant psychotherapy and group analysis. These will be adapted in relation to techniques and professional roles in different group settings.
Working with parents who have relationship problems (SC8)
Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships
Date: 8 & 15 March 2010
Location: London
Two day course taking place on two consecutive Mondays. Suitable for those who in their work with parents, encounter adult relationship issues and difficulties which impact on the capacity to co-parent. These may be parenting workers in a wide variety of voluntary and statutory settings who want to understand more about working with parents in conflict. Parenting workers often suspect that the parents’ relationship can fuel difficulties with parenting and might be at the heart of a child’s difficulties; at the same time these same professionals often feel they lack the confidence and skill to address issues in the couple relationship.
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