Foster Carers' TSD Standards covered:
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 2.1 Fostering role
- 2.3 Relationship with parents and others
- 2.4 Team working
- 3.3 Healthy care and medication
- 3.4 Personal safety and security
- 3.5 Risk assessment
- 4.1 Encourage communication
- 4.2 Knowing about communication
- 4.3 Communication with parents, families and friends
- 5.1 Attachment and stages of development
- 5.2 Resilience
- 5.3 Transitions
- 5.4 Supporting play, activities and learning
- 5.6 Understanding contexts
- 5.8 Supporting disabled children and children with special emotional needs
- 6.2 Keeping children safe
- 7.1 Your role and approval as a foster carer
- 7.2 Being aware of the impact of fostering on your sons and daughters and extended family
Author Details
Name: Dr Adele Freeman
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Current place of work: The Child Psychology Service
What is Blocked Care and how do I know if I have it?
I recently wrote about why, as a therapist, we often prioritise work with parents over working directly with young people (Click Here). In a nutshell, this is because working in this way offers the best possible chance of strengthening the attachment between a young person and their parent or carer and it is this relationship that offers the best hope of healing for a traumatised child.
As part of this article I mentioned something called ‘blocked care’ and thought it might be helpful to revisit this concept – what it is, why it happens, how to spot it, and what to do if you recognise it in yourself.