Course overview of Promoting a Therapeutic Environment in Children's Residential Care Homes
This Promoting A Therapeutic Environment In Children's Care Homes course provides the practical toolkit and core learning for carers in residential children’s homes. Allowing them to work therapeutically. Furthermore, by working in this way will ensure that children’s need for connection and love is recognised and addressed.
Course content
This course will cover:
- Your sense of safety
- Therapeutic parenting
- Parenting with PACE
- A therapeutic home (TRCH)
- Beginning with safety
- Making sense of behaviour
- Responding to impulsive behaviour
- The importance of trust
- Emotional literacy
- Managing conflict in a TRCH
- Boundaries
- Routines, rituals and rhythms
- Creating safe and trusting relationships

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Aims of Promoting a Therapeutic Environment in Children's Residential Care Homes course
This course will enable you to understand:
- The importance of reflecting on our own experience and feelings to make better sense of what is going on for a child in your care.
- What matters in developing a therapeutic environment in a residential children's home - and how to achieve it.
- The primary role of safety for both team members and children - and how to integrate safety into every aspect of the home's functioning.
- Roles and responsibilities.
What audience is this online course suitable for?
This Promoting a Therapeutic Environment course is for carers in residential children’s homes who want to learn how to work therapeutically with the children in their care.