ZTransitions and Endings
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All Foster Carers
Course Overview
This course focuses on building resilience in children to grow stronger and help them manage transition and endings in their life. It explores the impact of children being exposed to painful and traumatic events at different stages in their development and childhood. It aims to provide foster carers with an improved understanding and practical tools to build resilience in children and help them make successful transitions.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the meaning of transitions in the lives of children and young people and the range of responses to help them build resilience.
• Have gained an understanding of the impact of secure and insecure attachment patterns on the child’s or young person’s ability to deal effectively with transitions and endings.
• Have recognised the importance of planned transitions and endings and how these can impact on the foster child, carer and their family
• Have a greater understanding of how to help traumatised children and young people to face change and loss
• Have gained an understanding of how to assist a child or young person to create a positive script’ around transitions and endings
• Know how to promote positive transitions through a range of strategies and techniques.