Parenting
Training for Alcohol Professionals - One Day
Course:
At any
given time there are approximately 1 million
children who are living in homes where one or
both of parents are problematic alcohol users.
With this in mind Alcohol Concern and the
parenting fund developed this course to provide
those professionals working with problematic
alcohol using parents a practical model for
helping and empowering clients to develop
protective parenting skills. This will help to
protect, improve the quality of life and life
opportunities of children parented by someone
who misuses alcohol.
This
training course will use a variety of
experiential and direct teaching training
methods, as well as case studies, vignettes, and
card sort exercises to create an active learning
environment. The programme for the course
explores what children need, good enough
parenting. The effects and the impact of problem
drinking on parenting and children. Protective
parenting: a realistic approach for problem
drinkers. Whilst developing an approach to
working with problematic drinkers which are
practical and skills based.
By
the end of the course participants will be able
to:
- Gain
an understanding of alcohol addiction,
dependency, and risk to health.
- Gain
insight into treatment options / modalities
and local referral pathways for treatment.
- Explore
and understood child protection policies and
procedures in relation to alcohol dependant
parents.
- Recognise
what is 'good enough' parenting and the ways
in which this impacts on how children's
needs are met.
- Identify
the ways problem drinking by parents can
negatively affect parenting and the care and
development of children.
- Develop
skills enabling them to work more
effectively with problematic drinking
parents.
- Take
away practical resources which enhances the
work with this client group.
To
ask further questions or to book a course please
contact
us.
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