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The Therapeutic Parenting Podcast
This podcast is being brought to you by the Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma and we are committed to providing people living and working with child trauma with proven strategies to achieve the best possible outcomes for families.
Episodes
27 episodes
Conference Special 3 - Surviving Childhood Abuse to Become Parents and Essential Self Care
In this third and final episode from our Conference Special, podcast host Serena Gay talks to childhood abuse survivor Rosie Jefferies about breaking the circle of abuse to become a good parent. Rosie is also the Managing Director of th...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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Conference Special 2 - Challenges with Schools and for Kinship Carers and Special Guardians
The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma's November 2021 conference focused on a huge variety of issues that challenge parents and social workers nationwide. Everyone had a chance to explore solutions for their own personal difficulties...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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22:18
Conference Special 1 - How to Combat Grief, Guilt and Anxiety
The Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma's November 2021 conference attracted parents and professionals from around the country. It was an emotional day. Well, it would be wouldn't it because so much to do with fostering and adopting ch...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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22:34
How Trauma Impacts Children and Food
In this last episode of Series 2, expert Sarah Dillon explains how and why trauma has such a profound and negative effect on the relationship children have with food. Their behaviours with it might include:hoardin...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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18:38
Advice on Inappropriate Sexualised Behaviour in Children
When small children display signs of sexualised behaviour, foster and adoptive parents find it repugnant. As NATP expert Jane Mitchell explains, they are rightly furious with those responsible for the abuse their child must have suffere...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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19:12
Running Away: How to Bring Children Home
In this episode, Sarah Dillon tells us why traumatized children run away or abscond from loving and caring foster and adoptive families. She understands this problem in depth both as a professional and because she was once a runner ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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20:33
Understanding Why Your Child is Dissociating
A child in a state of dissociation can be a strange and disturbing thing to witness. In this week's edition, Jessica Jackson - whose own small son has a tendency to dissociate - talks us through why this happens and above all, what to d...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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16:21
What To Do When Your Child Soils Themselves
Your first reaction to the sight of your child smeared in its own poo could well be shock and revulsion. But understanding why they do strange things with their faeces or when they urinate on the carpet is key to finding a soluti...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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25:05
Successful Strategies for Parenting a Violent and Aggressive Child
Little else could be more destructive to a family unit than a child who is violent and aggressive towards their adoptive or foster parents. In this week's episode, our expert guest, Jane Mitchell, tells us that childr...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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33:08
Dealing with Relationship Strain for Parents of Traumatized Children
This week COECT's CEO Sarah Naish talks from personal experience about the strain placed on a relationship when a couple adopts or fosters traumatized children.Parents can quickly experience isolation within the relationship itself. Thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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20:54
School Transitions for Traumatized Children
Remember the child in your school class who was the fidgety one? Or the one who always had their hand up but was ignored by the teacher because they made apparently stupid remarks? Or the one that seemed to know exac...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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27:24
How Can You Help Your Hypervigilant Child?
If your child is from a traumatized background you may be asking yourself why they are seem so super sensitive to everything. Why are they so watchful and guarded? What are they afraid of? Why do they seem to focus on matters of...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:29
Parenting Traumatized Siblings: Making It Work
It is often really difficult for the professionals involved to know if a group of traumatized siblings should be kept together or separated once they've been removed from their birth families. There are so many factors to weigh in ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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28:31
Therapeutic Parenting's Super Strategies and Solutions
Raising a traumatised child to adulthood is fraught with challenges. But if you get Jane Mitchell's Super Strategies in place from the very start, you'll find them a great support.They form a template that help you face up all t...
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29:37
The Isolation Experienced by Adoptive Parents
In the first edition of Series 2, you'll hear plenty of therapeutic parenting strategies for coping with the inevitable loneliness and isolation experienced by the parents of traumatised children. COECT's CEO Sarah Naish talks about her...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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22:06
Therapeutic Foster Care Versus Standard Foster Care
As a trailblazer in the field of therapeutic parenting, COECT founder Sarah Naish has made a profound difference to the lives of many struggling foster and adoptive parents. She also runs fostering agencies in England and Wales where he...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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34:51
Therapeutic Parenting for Children Traumatised by Domestic Violence
The damage inflicted on a child as a result of domestic violence - be it physical or emotional - can have a catastrophic effect on their young lives. In this episode, Rachel Cawthorn, helps us to understand why this is the case and...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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22:40
The Anguish Behind Understanding How the Family Courts Work
"Bazza" is a professional social worker with in-depth experience of working in the family courts protecting the rights - and the futures - of children. For good professional reasons, she has to remain anonymous. But on...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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26:44
Therapeutic Parenting: The Kind of Dad I Need To Be
Our first male guest of this series joins us on this podcast edition to talk about a father’s experience of therapeutic parenting. Kinship Carer, Iain Fogg and his wife have cared for the daughter he refers to on the podcas...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:44
How to Help a Traumatized Child go to Sleep
In this episode, Jessica Jackson, an academic and practicing social worker as well as the adopter of two sibling boys joins us to advise on how to help a traumatized child go to sleep. Wherever childhood trauma occurs, sleep ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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43:45
Why a Child with Early Childhood Trauma Fears Adoption
Today's guest, Rosie Jefferies, the Managing Director of COECT, talks frankly about the fears and emotions she experienced as a small child at the start of her adoption journey.Rosie's profound early life trauma meant she was understand...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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22:55
Why Your Traumatised Child "Behaves Badly"
Today's guest, Sarah Dillon, spent much of her childhood in care.Now a child and adult therapist, she is an internationally-recognised expert with experience on both sides of the therapeutic parenting fence.In this episode, she ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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25:52
Top Tips for Helping An Adoptive Child Join Your Family
First meetings and moving your adoptive child in to join your family can be among the most important in helping a child, especially a traumatised one, settle well. COECT expert Jane Mitchell knows from personal experience about the pitf...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:23
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How to Understand your Child's Malfunctioning Internal Working Model
You may be puzzling over why your traumatised child's behaviour around birthdays and festivities becomes even more challenging and difficult than normal. Our expert guest on the podcast this week, Glynis Hough, is a Foster Pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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26:44
