Child Development, Attachment and Resilience                     Level 2

A 2 day course - attendance at both days is required

This practically focused workshop will reinforce and add to knowledge gained in the 3 day Introcuction to CYPPC child protection course "Working Together". It willexamine the importance of early attachment relationships and the implications they have in the development of a child's emotional well being. It aims to provide practitioners with a practical strategies for promoting resilience and positive outcomes for children and young people who have experienced disrupted childhoods.

Target audience
Practitioners, and line managers, who work with children/young people and/or adults who are parents/carers where children/young people's development may have been disrupted by harmful and abusive experiences and/or traumatic events. If you require further advice Please discuss with your line manager or agency child protection training co-ordinator .

Pre-requisite knowledge
Participants will require to have a clear knowledge of their own agency's policies and procedures and have attended previous child protection training e.g. Working Together the CYPPC 3 day Introduction to Child Protection or equivalent.

Learning outcomes:
Partiicpants will: -

• build on their knowledge of healthy development in childhood and understand the impact on those experiencing disrupted childhoods.
• recognise those children and young people who present with challenging and difficult behaviours arising from poor attachments.
• be able to assess the quality of the attachment relationship between parent/carer and child/young person.
• be able to apply concepts of resilience and vulnerability in understanding the needs of individual children.
• provide strategies that will help practitioners positively intervene to develop resilience thereby providing a clear focus for care plans ensuring the needs of each individual
  child/young person are addressed.

Source Scottish Gov't Child Protection & Learning Framework