ORGANIC THERAPEUTIC PATHWAY
Assured by City & Guilds, our industry-leading Therapeutic Pathway provides foster parents with the key skills and knowledge they need to provide extraordinary therapeutic foster care.
Stage 1: Fostering Therapeutic Relationships
Over 3 sessions, you’ll learn about a variety of different concepts around therapeutic relationships as well as create a plan for your personal development.
- Module 1 – Expectations and reflective practice
- Module 2 – Communication, discomfort, curiosity and the ‘Headspace’ model
- Module 3 – Review, self-evaluation and development plan
Stage 1 (continued): Foster Parent Toolbox
Building on the skills learned, the following sessions will broaden your knowledge around key models and theories to advance your understanding of therapeutic care.
Modules 1 and 2 will cover:
- Child development and attachment
- The impact of early trauma and abuse
- Neuro-sequential recovery
- Surviving abuse and neglect - ‘Secure Base’ model
- Fostering trust, overcoming barriers and ruptures
- Your emotions
- Building and re-building resilience
Followed by sessions on:
- Attention-seeking behaviour
- Anger
- Hyperactivity
- Disassociation
- Control
- Lying and allegations
- Sexualised behaviour
- Difficult sibling relationships
- Self-harm
- Turbulent teenage years
A final workshop will be held at the end of Stage 1 to bring together all these valuable learnings. Stage 1 will need to be completed to move to Main Grade.
Stage 2: Therapeutic Pathway - Senior Grade
This is an additional training pathway where you demonstrate your understanding of the concepts learned in the Therapeutic Pathway, and how you apply them in your day-to-day role.
This pathway includes:
- Attachment Play Workshop 1: Play and You
- Attachment Play Workshop 2: Attachment Play and Communication Skills
- Attachment Play Workshop 3: Play in Practice
- Case study reflective discussion groups
- Mentoring / “Giving Back” - support new foster parents through mentoring or facilitating a peer support group
After completing this stage, you may be eligible to move to our Senior Grade.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The following Therapeutic Pathway courses are mandatory:
- Stage 1 – All Modules
- Stage 2 – Modules 1 and 2
These courses are mandatory for any secondary foster parents who joined Organic fostering after 1st September 2022. We also strongly advise any secondary foster parents approved before this date to attend these courses too.
We will provide you with a number of books to help you complete each stage. These include Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell for Stage 1 and Why Can’t My Child Behave for Stage 2.
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