Live online: 20 and 21.6.22. The Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines Training.
Become a licensed user of the Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines. This training takes place over two half-days: 20 and 21.6.22 with pre and post-course content.
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Prior to the course participants will be given access to a 1 hour introductory video
The live online training will take place over two half-days 9.30am - 12.30pm on 20 and 21 June 2022
Participants receive access to the online Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines App
A 90 minute follow-up session is included two months post the training for participants to ask questions about their use of the guidelines in practice
Informs recommendations and decision making about contact arrangements for children in local authority or permanent care arrangements,
Organises information about the child, carer and birth relative around the potential of contact to achieve purposes associated with the child or young person’s developmental recovery,
Identifies how contact can be appropriately supported and managed to ensure it safely benefits the child or young person’s recovery from traumatic life experiences,
Offers a universal process for practitioners to evidence clinical reasoning about contact arrangements.
This evidence-based training draws on contemporary attachment theory and the latest research into childhood trauma to consider the potential of contact as a resource to facilitate the child’s developmental recovery. It explains the Safe and Meaningful Contact (SaMC) guidelines (Burke and Woodhouse, 2021) which identify key information decision makers require in order to make trauma-informed decisions related to the child’s contact arrangements. The course helps participants:
Understand how contact has the potential to help or hinder the child’s recovery from past trauma;
Use the Safe and Meaningful Contact (SaMC) guidelines that identify clinical information decision makers require to determine whether contact is safe and meaningful to the child;
Identify factors associated with the child, birth relative and carer that determine the potential benefits and risks of contact;
Identify the support needs of the child, birth relative and carer to ensure contact maximises its potential to facilitate the child’s recovery needs.
Legal decision makers can use the SaMC guidelines to determine whether they have the information required to make trauma informed decisions related to the child’s contact arrangements;
Practitioners such as social workers and mental health professionals can use the SaMC guidelines to identify support needs to ensure contact is maximising its potential to play a role in the child’s developmental recovery;
The SaMC guidelines can be used to help birth relatives and carers (such as adopters, kinship carers, special guardians, and foster carers) understand the benefits and risks associated with what contact means to their child.
Dr Chris Burke
Sally Wassell
Online anytime training, webinars, live onsite events.
For additional information or enquiries contact Dr Chris Burke:
chris.burke@psychologicalminds.com
training.psychologicalminds.com
Tel: +44 7751062317