Managing Difficult Behaviour: Tips and Techniques for Foster Carers of the Under 12S - Softcover

Clare Pallett; Kathy Blackeby; Caroline Bengo; William Yule; Roger Weissman; Stephen Scott; Eileen Fursland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910039365 ISBN 13: 9781910039366

Publisher: CoramBAAF, 2015

Synopsis

Bestselling guide for foster carers and kinship carers

Would you like to develop a better relationship with the child you are caring for? Do you sometimes struggle to deal with your child’s painful feelings, challenging behaviour, or even aggression? Does your child sometimes wind you up to get your attention? If you answer yes to any of these questions, this book is for you.

Looking after children in foster care or kinship care is a challenging and important role. It changes children’s lives, but it can make many and varied demands on carers. Some of the challenges arise from children’s behaviours that can be challenging and puzzling to deal with.

This unique handbook provides carers with new skills to help manage a child’s behaviour and improve their relationship. The practical guide is full of useful tips, case examples and exercises, and addresses key areas including: being good at giving praise; listening to and talking with your child; using play to give positive attention; using rewards and setting limits; being good at giving instructions; using ignoring to improve behaviour; helping children learn from the consequences of their actions; and helping carers to care for themselves.

The guide does not provide all the answers, as every child is an individual and may be affected in different ways by early trauma and neglect. It can be hard to understand and help children when they express their frustration, anger, stress and insecurity. But the guide does set out clear and practical ways in which carers can help children.

Managing Difficult Behaviour is based on the widely used Fostering Changes Programme, from the Maudsley Hospital in London. Tried and tested by carers, this guide provides practical advice and skills-based training to develop carers’ skills in managing challenging child behaviour and forming positive relationships with the children they look after.

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Review

This is a book I would recommend all carers read, so that they can arm themselves with vital skills. --Rita Mistry, foster carer

Edition details

• Publisher: CoramBAAF
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910039365
• ISBN 13: 9781910039366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128