PACE Therapeutic Parenting - What Is It?
If you have young children, or adopted children, you may want to consider PACE Therapeutic Parenting methods, but firstly you need to know exactly what it is, and how it can help your family or professional practices.
In this short blog, I will lay out what PACE Parenting is, what it consists of, and how it may assist your professional or personal knowledge. Read on to find out more.
What Is PACE Parenting?
PACE is part of the DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) model developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr Dan Hughes. PACE (playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy) is a successful approach to working with children who have experienced trauma.
This therapeutic parenting approach is widely used in helping children with attachment and trauma related difficulties. The PACE model is family based and focuses on the facilitation of the children’s ability to establish a secure attachment with their carer/s. Parenting with PACE provides appropriate boundaries, together with warmth and nurture, the connection that PACE creates means that this parenting is received as fully unconditional.
Who Would I Recommend PACE Training To?
PACE training courses are aimed at parents who are parenting a child who has insecure attachments, this includes adoptive parents, foster carers and professionals who support these groups.
Where Can You Find PACE Parenting Training?
There are few companies that offer training programmes across the UK such as PACE Parenting, but with such a sensitive topic at hand, you want to be sure you are in the right hands.
Adoptionplus is an adoption and fostering agency based in Milton Keynes, covering London, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Luton and Northamptonshire.
Adoptionplus’s PACE Parenting Training course consists of these objectives:
To explore PACE and its role in parenting and understand why traditional behaviour management strategies may not help the child to feel secure
To understand the behaviour displayed by the child and how this links to their internal experience
To establish how PACE can be integrated into a parenting attitude
To have the opportunity to practice PACE in conversations
To explore the eases and challenges for adopting a PACE led approach To encourage a deeper, intersubjective relationship with children in your care
To consider the connections between experience, feelings and behaviour and relate this to the concept of PACE
If you are interested in learning more about the training that Adoptionplus offers parents and professionals, feel free to get in contact with them today.