Child Focused Techniques in Clinical Practice
Workshop Details
This highly practical and experiential workshop is based on best practice principles that underpin clinical work in order to improve the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge required to ensure that the role and needs of the children are considered by the practitioner and parents at all times and that the interests of the children are paramount.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn how to focus on children’s issues in all aspects of clinical practice
- Apply practical techniques through role-play and demonstration that will easily translate to child focused work with parents
- Assimilate ways to support parents to maintain child focus in all planning and actions
- Understand the importance of critical timeframes in childhood development
- Apply specific developmental information and needs of children in all clinical interventions
- Promote a collaborative child focus approach in order to promote parental alliance
- Understand the implications of child protection