Boffins is pleased to support the Australian Childhood Foundation's two-day workshop with neuroscientist Dan Hughes, PhD.
As an emerging knowledge base, the neuroscience of caregiving is critical to responding to the needs of traumatised and at-risk children and young people. An in-depth understanding of attachment and the process of therapeutic parenting has been used as the basis for the development of therapeutic foster care, residential and family group home programs. It is also at the heart of family support services that aim to strengthen parenting capacity through enhancing attunement and self reflection.
Dan Hughes has been at the forefront of using attachment and neuroscience in resourcing adaptive and positive connections between traumatised children and their parents or caregivers. His approach is family centred and offers very practical strategies for a wide range of professionals who work with vulnerable children and their relationship contexts.
In this two day workshop, Dan will describe in detail how practitioners can support children to be more strongly connected to their parents or caregivers. Specifically, through the use of video examples of his own work, he will explore the specific elements of interactions with parents or caregivers that resource children to resolve traumatic experiences.
Bookings and enquiries can be made on the Australian Childhood Foundation's website.
