Give learners a comprehensive overview of how children become traumatised, the effects on the child, and the resulting behaviours.
 

Enable learners to understand the importance of using therapeutic parenting techniques with children who have experienced early childhood trauma.
 

Identify reasons why children with attachment difficulties provoke strong responses in the Therapeutic Parent.
 

Enable Therapeutic Parents to recognise their own responses to children with attachment difficulties.
 

Assist Therapeutic Parents in recognising and managing compassion fatigue/ blocked care.
 

Provide Therapeutic Parents with the skills and knowledge to avoid feeling disempowered and therefore lessen the impact of blocked care (compassion fatigue). 
 

Provide supporting professionals and mentoring carers with the skills and knowledge to identify manage and support others in blocked care (optional unit).
 

Equip Therapeutic Parents with the skills and knowledge to begin to work therapeutically with children with attachment difficulties. 
 

Enable Therapeutic Parents to apply practical therapeutic parenting behaviour management strategies, when working with children who have suffered early life trauma.
 

Enable Therapeutic parents and supporting professionals to identify therapeutic parenting models and apply the P.A.C.E model. 
 

Equip Therapeutic parents and supporting professionals with the tools to solve complex relationship issues between professionals and carers caring for traumatised children.