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BARNARDO'S BITESIZE: What is Therapeutic Parenting?
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Therapeutic parenting recognises children's behaviour as communication and focuses on nurturing connections to help children who've experienced trauma develop trust and security. Unlike traditional parenting approaches, therapeutic parenting requires understanding a child's inner world and developmental needs rather than simply managing behaviours.
• Therapeutic parenting is not about being a therapist but about healing through nurturing relationships
• Children who enter care have experienced trauma and have different developmental starting points
• Traditional parenting techniques like time-outs can trigger feelings of rejection in care-experienced children
• Children learn who they are through how others respond to them
• Care-experienced children often function at a younger emotional age despite their chronological age
• Children with early trauma often develop internal working models where they feel unsafe and unlovable
• Building predictable, safe experiences helps traumatised children slowly develop trust
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Chapters
1. BARNARDO'S BITESIZE: What is Therapeutic Parenting? (00:00:00)
2. What is therapeutic parenting? (00:00:02)
3. Secure base and attachment trauma (00:03:38)
4. Traditional vs therapeutic parenting approaches (00:05:10)
5. How children learn who they are (00:08:17)
6. Understanding developmental age vs chronological age (00:10:22)
7. The critical importance of early caregiving (00:11:42)
8. Episode closing and call to action (00:16:09)
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