The idea of the Parenting Impacted by Trauma Cards are that when working difficulties in family life, or with children’s behaviour, or if these emerge along the way, that there are some useful questions to ask to illicit more information about the early relationships.
It can be challenging to get the full picture from a parent as they are often so desperate as their daily family life and/or child’s behavior is causing so much stress and distress it is easy for a practitioner to slip in to ‘fixing’ rather than looking for any trauma as an underlying cause for the disconnect.
In my many years of parenting work, I have found it important to have as many pieces of the puzzle as possible in order to support the parent in having a more informed and connected relationship with their child, in the context of understanding themselves better and their child!
I believe my Fink Cards to be a valuable tool as they offer that 3rd party to focus upon as a way of exploring difficult subjects and providing a focus for complex work around attachment and trauma in the parent-child relationship.
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Presenter
For the past 25 years, I have worked with families with multiple and complex needs emanating from experiences of childhood trauma. As an early years practitioner, respite foster carer, domestic violence parenting worker, a social work assistant and a child to parent abuse practitioner, I have learned from ‘doing’ but have also taken on 13 years of self-education relating to trauma and attachment. This is what I bring to my speaking, training, writing, and direct work with foster and kinship carers, also adoptive and birth parents.
My work utilises my direct learning and self-study. I aim to make understanding and supporting Trauma understandable and accessible for all.
