Web Therapy: Supporting Families in Crisis
15/03/2025
- 16/03/2025
9:00 am
- 5:00 pm
This is a two day course.
Take advantage of the Early Bird Rate for both days £140 (valid until 01/02/2025).
Online
£160
Availability: 25 Seats Available
About the course
Web Therapy is a course designed for therapeutic professionals working with, or who will be working with adopted and fostered children/young people. Web therapy provides a robust programme of support to work with clients, parents, families and professionals.
Working with traumatised children and their families requires specialist training. Web therapy takes you through a system that will empower you to work with clients who have experienced complex trauma and parents and professionals who are caring for them.
This course will unlock the problems faced by adoptive and foster families and find solutions for them. Where normal parenting practice is failing, web therapy explores the alternative to developing positive attachment patterns with a traumatised child by focusing on building bonds of attachment between the client and parent thus increasing resilience.
An adoptive parent recently told me, “Parenting a traumatised child required specialist parenting skills. I learnt very early on that providing love and warmth was never enough. Love was often experienced as scary causing many meltdowns! This programme would have really helped me to understand how trauma had impacted on every area of my child’s development. Trauma was displayed through behaviours which many families, friends and professionals found challenging to deal with and were unable to manage, causing my child to constantly experience shame and guilt instead of feeling contained. Being an adoptive parent during these many stressful times often left us feeling inadequate, isolated, useless, exhausted and frustrated due to the systems not being adequate to support our child or us as a family. Looking at the Web-therapy programme I can see just how this programme would have enabled us as a family to parent our child from a trauma lens and if the professionals involved with my child had learned about web-therapy we may possibly have felt supported during the very tough times”.
This two day course will enhance your practice and lead to a specialisation in trauma recovery with adopted and children in care. You will discover how to work and empower the family and professionals who surround the child or young person. You will learn to use assessment tools within schools, family and therapy to identify where the focused support is required. After analysis of the assessment outcomes you will learn how to work closely with the parents of the child/young person. You will enhance your skills to liaise with teaching staff and create an environment for change within the school and much more.
After the training a comprehensive pack of resources will be received with ongoing advice and guidance from the School of Play and Creative Therapies Team.
Feedback received from participants who have taken this course included:
“I felt the course covered key themes and theories around trauma and I particularly enjoyed the second day where we looked at practical assessment tools which I can utilise in my practice”.
“The training this weekend was the most excellent training I have done. It is the first time I have felt that training has tackled the difficult arena of parent support”.
“I found this training really informative and feel more equipped in supporting children with adverse trauma experiences and their families”.
“Lots of practical application ideas which I can feel shaping my future practice in working with the wider system around the child”.
Take advantage of the Early Bird Rate £140 until 01/02/2025
Availability: 25 Seats Available
Alun John, B.Ed
Alun has vast experience working with children and young people. Alun was an assistant pastor with responsibility for children and youth projects. He was a professional actor and worked in theatre in education for many years. He trained as a teacher and qualified with a B.Ed. and taught for many years. As a teacher he worked with primary children as well as 14 – 16 year olds in a pupil referral unit (PRU). He has managed the children and youth work programmes for charities. Alun trained to become a play therapist and as an accredited play therapist and clinical supervisor Alun became the Clinical Director of Catchpoint, a therapeutic organisation. He led a team of therapists that worked exclusively with looked after children who had experienced complex trauma. Alun is now an adult educator with both national and international experience. He has been able to use his varied experiences to find a unique way of communicating the skills and passion needed to be an authentic therapeutic practitioner.
Location Information
This is an online course.
Further information about the day will be sent to you via email upon purchase.
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“I felt the course covered key themes and theories around trauma and I particularly enjoyed the second day where we looked at practical assessment tools which I can utilise in my practice”.
“The training this weekend was the most excellent training I have done. It is the first time I have felt that training has tackled the difficult arena of parent support”.
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