Foster Carers' TSD Standards covered:
- 1.1 Principles and values
- 1.3 Person centred approaches
- 2.1 Fostering role
- 2.3 Relationship with parents and others
- 3.3 Healthy care and medication
- 4.1 Encourage communication
- 4.2 Knowing about communication
- 4.3 Communication with parents, families and friends
- 4.4 Communication with organisations
- 5.1 Attachment and stages of development
- 5.2 Resilience
- 5.3 Transitions
- 5.4 Supporting play, activities and learning
- 5.5 Supporting educational potential
- 5.6 Understanding contexts
- 5.8 Supporting disabled children and children with special emotional needs
- 6.4 Working with other agencies
- 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
- 7.3 Using support and supervision to develop your role
Author Details
Name: Dr Lucy Murray
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Current place of work: The Child Psychology Service
In this piece I wanted to think about the importance of your self-care. “My self-care!” I hear you cry! I’m guessing that between trying to parent the traumatised children in your care, managing the house, your other children, wider family and everything else you have to do, time to look after you must seem a feint possibility, ending up further and further down the list of things to do. Sally Donovan talks about this in one of her PAFCA Adopter Blog articles here. An account that I am sure many of you will identify with. Sally’s book “No Matter What” (see Reading List) is great for this too.
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