By James Paul | Senior Grant Writer
Our training in Vietnam ensures staff from orphanages have the skills and knowledge to be able to safely place a child into a local foster family. Once the child has been placed in a family, the foster parents require ongoing support to ensure that they are equipped to support children at each stage in their development and to address any complex behaviours.
One key area of support is around the impact of trauma on children. Children who experience trauma may not be able to process or communicate it immediately. Instead, the impact of it may emerge in later years. Foster carers are given an understanding of the impact that trauma can have on a child’s life. The training gives foster carers tools to help children regulate their emotions, teaches them how to care for children who have experienced trauma, and emphasises the importance of self-care.
Another area is attachment. Attachment is characterised by specific behaviours in children, such as seeking proximity to an attachment figure when upset or threatened. These types of behaviour are universal across cultures. Attachment theory explains how the primary caregiver-child relationship emerges and influences subsequent development. Foster carers are taught how important secure attachments are in the life of a child and how quality attachments impact the child’s wellbeing, social functioning and competency. They are also taught how the absence of attachment or poor or dysfunctional attachment might have impacted the children before coming into family care.
Only with ongoing support will foster carers be able to deal with the ups and downs of taking a child into their family.
Stay connected for more updates. Thank you so much for your interest and support.
By James Paul | Senior Grant Writer
By James Paul | Senior Grant Writer
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