Sarah Dillon Working with Children Who Can't Engage November 14

Posted Oct 24, 2022

1. To help Foster/Adoptive Parents and supporting professionals to further their understanding of compliance, avoidance and fawning in children who have experienced trauma and neglect.

2. Why such children struggle to engage.

3. How these behaviours are linked to attachment difficulties and survival strategies.

4. To develop an awareness of the associated presenting behaviours and how these link to ACE’s.

5. Enable those caring for such children to recognize avoidance, compliance and befriending (fawning) as soon as a child is placed with them.

6. Explore ways to remain alert for such presentation and not confuse such behaviour with an appearance of being settled or attaching.

7. Strategies to encourage attachment and belonging using therapeutic parenting and the belong believe behave approach.