Recorded on 18 May 2020 with Dr Dan Hughes, founder of DDP, Family Futures invited Dan to offer parenting ideas for parents and carers which would help children experience safety at times of heightened anxiety and stress.

Dan Hughes’ therapeutic model of DDP involves assisting children to understand their troubled past while also enhancing their ability to form trusting relationships with their adoptive parents or carers. Parenting skills including PACE (playful, accepting, curious and empathic) are explored in this webinar to provide creative and inspiring ideas for both children and their parents to experience greater safety when the pressures on the whole family feel intense and stressful. There are references to the Covid lockdown of 2020 but this webinar has relevance today for adoptive, kinship and foster families feeling under pressure or struggling.

Webinar objectives

This webinar helps parents develop key skills and supports them with parenting a traumatised child during periods of lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic.

What skills will you take away?

• An increased awareness of how PACE may be helpful in parenting a traumatised child during this stressful time
• Skills to parent as you hope to during the lockdown including creative ways to show you care in times of social distancing
• Ideas to assist your child with their distress even when you are feeling  anxious or stressed yourself.

Who is it for?

Adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers

Who is Dan Hughes?

Dr Dan Hughes is a clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of children and young people with trauma-attachment problems. Dan trains professionals in this treatment model in the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia. He is the author of various books and articles, and is also the President of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute.