Restorative Practices for Parents
Restorative Parenting Programmes
Restorative Practices (RP) is a social science approach, which is based on building and maintaining strong relationships. It is a model that helps children to recover from trauma by providing a therapeutic and nurturing environment, creating a balance of fairness and firmness in parenting, and increasing communication and understanding between parents and children.
Our Restorative Parenting Programmes supports parents who have had theirchildren removed from their care, and need to access intensive, bespoke guidance, and support to assist in developing positive parenting capacity and adopting alternate parenting skills.
SUMMARY
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Providing bespoke support for parents around what are appropriate boundaries and appropriate consequences, and how to implement these.
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Support for parents around how to manage difficult behaviours and defiance.
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Re-iteration to parents of the UK laws around physical chastisement
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Support and learning for child/ren to reflect on past behaviours and how they can be amended going forward
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Support for parents and children to develop and agree chores, rules, safety plan and household agreement(s) (in cases of reunification).
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AIMS
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Enhance positive parenting skills to manage behaviour more effectively and promote children's social skills, self-esteem and self-discipline;
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Improve parent-child relationships and parent-parent relationships
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Develop positive attitudes and resilience in parenting
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Strengthen parents' understanding of child development and foster ability to be more responsive to the needs of their children to promote their social, emotional and cognitive development and well-being;
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Increase parents' confidence in their parenting role; and
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Increase parents' confidence and skills in providing a positive home, learning environment and supporting their child/ren with their learning.
Topics included
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Signs of safety - What worked well? Worries? What needs to happen
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Recognising challenges in parenting
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Theories of Child Development
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Principles of Fair Process in Parenting
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Day in the Life Diary
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Parenting Styles - Pros/Cons
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Building relationships through the use of Circles
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Using Rituals
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Setting Boundaries
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Family group conferencing
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Reaching Family Agreements.
All of our Restorative Parenting Programmes are specifically adapted to meet the needs of the families that we are working with and activities are plannedwith the family members through using circle communication. Therefore each programme schedule is individual and tailor made to meet needs.
