Compassion Fatigue, Co-Regulation & Attachment (with Empathy from PACE) (5/5)(Zoom)

Empathy is essential; it means showing a child that their feelings matter and that they are not alone during tough times. Although responses may not always resolve a situation, empathy is about building a connection with the child.

Caring for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, and loss requires emotional resilience. Thus, adults must prioritise their own mental health to meet these children's complex needs effectively.

Compassion fatigue can lead to emotional and physical exhaustion among caregivers. Co-regulation involves managing your emotions while helping others manage theirs. This course highlights the importance of establishing secure connections with trauma-affected individuals and responding to their needs with compassion. Mastering these concepts is crucial for providing effective care and support.

Key components of the training:

1. To enhance our knowledge and understanding of attachment theory and its effect on personal and professional relationships.
2. Understand the attachment pattern we may have developed and learn the possible implications for our caring relationship.
3. Develop an understanding of how attachment patterns can be altered.
4. Identify what co-regulation means, why it's essential, and how to apply it.
5. Discuss the challenges and successful skills in applying therapeutic care.
6. Explore how the changes to family dynamics brought about by fostering causes stress.
7. Analyse factors that lead to compassion fatigue.
8. Identify critical signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue.
9. Identify coping strategies that you can use to increase resiliency.
10. Develop ways to find support for yourself and give support to your colleagues.

Suitable for:

Our PACE suite is suitable for a wide range of individuals. We recommend a yearly refresher to ensure that practices stay fresh and to help prevent the worker from reverting to the style of parenting they experienced:

• Social Workers: Case managers, child welfare workers, and community organisers.
• Caregivers: Residential workers, care home staff, Foster carers, adoptive parents, and kinship caregivers.
• Mental Health Professionals: Therapists, counselors & social workers.
• Educators: Also see "PACE for Schools" - Teachers, school counselors, and special education professionals.
• Birth Parents: Use "PACE for Parents" instead. Our workforce development training program is not designed to provide individual therapy. Some content may be triggering, and it will not be appropriate to address specific individual examples or development needs in front of the group.

Testimonials:

You can see what others are saying about our training HERE.

Those seeking to be certified in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) or to further explore PACE in action are invited to visit the founder's website.

Format: This is a live training session through Zoom. It includes taught sections, small group work, work in pairs, and whole group discussions.

Hand-outs & Certificates: Downloadable resource library and certificates of attendance are provided.