Hostile & Evasive Families
This course will enable workers who work with families to develop effective ways and build confidence in working with difficult behaviour, in order to recognise potential impacts on professional dynamics and multi-agency child protection work when professionals are faced with working with families who are hostile and evasive. It is recommeded for all BFfC staff who work in families homes alone as part of our Lone Worker training pathway.
Description
By the end of the course participants will have:
- Identify organisational and multi-agency contexts, which can help or hinder effective collaborative working in supporting families who are hostile and/or evasive towards professionals.
- Describe challenges to own and collective value base when faced with challenging service user behaviours.
- Develop a shared understanding of concepts of ‘dangerous’, ‘evasive’ and ‘difficult’.
- Identify a shared understanding of impacts of hostility and evasiveness on professionals and multi-agency dynamics. Critically reflect on the consequences for assessment and management of risk to children and young people.
- Describe the impact on children and young people of living in threatening situations and ways to ensure children’s experiences remain central.
- Renew knowledge relating to self-care including ways in which professionals can support each other to ensure working together remains effective in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
- Demonstrate skills and confidence in working with other professionals to identify strategies to ensure children and young people’s needs and safety remain central
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This course explores experiences, theories and ideas during day one and day two involves the use of actors to simulate potential experiences that professionals may encounter. This includes aggression and hostility and delegates should consider this before booking on the course. Delegates will be well supported during and after any simulated incidents but for some, they may prefer not to attend.