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Hosted by Julia Davis this course will be delivered on 12th September 2025 & 30th January 2026 starting at 9:30am and will end at 2pm. This course is aimed towards Foster Carers & Special Guardians.
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Course Aim
This session will be aimed at Foster Carers, to increase their knowledge around attachment theory and how it can help support the way in which they work with children in their care.
To increase the understanding of attachment theory and enable delegates to apply attachment theory in practice in caring for children and young people within Coventry.
By the end of the course, you will:
- Have an overview of attachment theory and an understanding of how attachment develops.
- Understand how experiences in early relationships can create internal working models and attachment styles and how this may affect future relationships.
- Understand the impact of separation, loss, abuse and neglect on children’s development and their capacity to form attachments
- Understand the relevance of attachment theory within the role of a foster carer
- Understand how resilience theory, dyadic developmental psychology perspectives and attachment theory are linked and how this relates to using the PACE model
- Be able to make links between theory, research and practice; and understand how to apply attachment theory to the care of children and young people
- Understand how attachment theory can be used to improve child-parent/carer relationship.
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