“Really appreciated the speaker's sharing of lived experience and feel it added great value to the training. Speaker was also very knowledgeable”
Suitable for all social workers nationwide with an interest in child protection.
Online via MS Teams 12pm - 1.30pm
Price per session - BASW members - £16.50 + VAT (£19.80) ||| Non members - £25 + VAT (£30)
Attracting 1.5hrs CPD
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07.05.24 Effective assessment in child protection - Practical ideas & tools
Practical ideas and tools to write evidentially robust, analytical, and child-centred assessments of children and families that make a difference
Course overview:
The sessions focuses on the nuts and bolts of assessment, from the use of tools, methods for gathering information, to structuring and writing an assessment.
In this focused masterclass, Rich Devine, drawing on his twelve years of front-line practice and specialist training will provide highly practical, research informed, structure for undertaking an assessment to effectively assess risk, determine threshold, and importantly, think about what will help the family make change. This will be highly useful and relevant for anyone responsible for writing single assessments, risk assessments and parenting assessments.
A key element of assessment is assessing capacity to change, yet there is little guidance and support in this area for front line practitioners. This session will explore barriers and facilitators to change, how to assess change, and think about support that improves likelihood of change.
Learning outcomes:
- Get a comprehensive overview on ideas and tools to produce an assessment
- Understand how to assess capacity to change, including making the distinction between engagement with support and actual change.
- How to help a parent and improve a child’s outcome when a parent doesn’t want to change
- Learn what to write in different sections of an assessment, including separating description from analysis
- Get a framework for writing evidentially sound, child centred analysis
The trainer:
Rich Devine (Twitter @RichardDevineSW) is a Consultant Social Worker, with over 12 years’ experience working with children and families in a child protection context.
He has a Masters in Attachment Studies from Roehampton University, London (2018) and is trained in several attachment procedures. Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. He writes one of the UK’s most popular social work blogs, exploring topics such direct work with children, assessment, and relationship-based practice.
In 2022, he co-facilitated a series of webinars on co-design and co-production with Tim Fisher, one of the leading UK experts on participatory approaches and he undertook research on parental advocacy with Dr Clive Diaz from Cardiff University (to be published in 2023).
Delivered online using MS Teams.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
11.06.24 Top tips on how to use attachment theory and trauma
Improve your observation skills, direct work and intervention with children and families in child protection
Course overview:
This session focuses on the coping strategies that children and parents develop in the context of adverse experiences. It will introduce you to an exciting and innovative theoretical framework developed by Dr Patricia Crittenden, called the Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM). Attachment theory is a lifespan model that is critical for understanding how people learn how to relate to one another, and the problems that can emerge when healthy relationships aren’t provided.
In this focused masterclass, Rich Devine, drawing on twelve years of frontline experience and specialist training will share the most influential and important theory on his practice – a theory that provides a highly practical and research-informed way to understand how and why parents harm their children, and importantly, what we can do to help parents and their children within a child protection context.
This masterclass will explore the relationship between attachment and trauma, with the impact of a traumatic experience significantly influenced by the attachment relationship. It will also explore the different ways trauma can be processed and what that means for a child or parent's functioning.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn about the different attachment strategies and how they influence a child’s behaviour
- Develop observations skills that aid understanding and inform assessment that supports looking beyond the surface behaviour to understand the underlying function
- Learn about the different types of traumas and how they impact a child and adult
- Develop practical tools and ideas for helping children and parents experiencing social and emotional problems
- Learn about the critical cause of danger and critical cause of change, where you focus on one important problem rather than several difficulties at a time
- Be more confident in understanding how attachment theory can improve your ability to understand and help children and families
The trainer:
Rich Devine (Twitter @RichardDevineSW) is a Consultant Social Worker, with over 12 years’ experience working with children and families in a child protection context.
He has a Masters in Attachment Studies from Roehampton University, London (2018) and is trained in several attachment procedures. Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. He writes one of the UK’s most popular social work blogs, exploring topics such direct work with children, assessment, and relationship-based practice.
In 2022, he co-facilitated a series of webinars on co-design and co-production with Tim Fisher, one of the leading UK experts on participatory approaches and he undertook research on parental advocacy with Dr Clive Diaz from Cardiff University (to be published in 2023).
Delivered online using MS Teams.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
16.07.23 Skills and principles for cultivating a relational approach to addiction in child protection
Bringing together personal and professional experience to shift our understanding of parents who misuse drugs and alcohol.
Course Overview
This session focuses on how to interact effectively and help parents who are misusing drugs and alcohol, drawing on the most up-to-date research.
In this focused masterclass, Rich Devine, drawing on twelve years of frontline experience will use a blend of personal experience, practice experience, theory and research to examine how and why people use drugs and alcohol, and what we can do to help them within a child protection context.
A common myth is that people choose to use drugs, and therefore if they are told not to do so, especially if it is harming their children they would. The masterclass explores how individuals who misuse drugs and alcohol often don’t have a choice, examines why telling what to do doesn’t work, and what can be done instead so that the probability of change occurs.
Learning outcomes:
- Learn about the bio-psycho-social model of addiction
- Learn about what causes addiction, and why the common myth that drugs are addictive because of the chemicals is wrong and harmful
- Develop ideas and tools for talking to parents about addiction in a way that increases openness, reduces defensiveness and resistance
- Find out about how to support parents experiencing addiction issues
The trainer:
Rich Devine (Twitter @RichardDevineSW) is a Consultant Social Worker, with over 12 years’ experience working with children and families in a child protection context.
He has a Masters in Attachment Studies from Roehampton University, London (2018) and is trained in several attachment procedures. Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at Cambridge University. He writes one of the UK’s most popular social work blogs, exploring topics such direct work with children, assessment, and relationship-based practice.
In 2022, he co-facilitated a series of webinars on co-design and co-production with Tim Fisher, one of the leading UK experts on participatory approaches and he undertook research on parental advocacy with Dr Clive Diaz from Cardiff University (to be published in 2023).
Delivered online using MS Teams.