Therapeutic Access, From Supervised Access to Building Parent-Child Relationships
presentation Tuesday February 5, 2008
Mary Rella, Manager of Assessment, Consultation and Training Services, INTERFACE Program, Thistletown Regional Centre
Tara Noble, Family Support Worker, Intensive Family and Community Resource Program, Thistletown Regional Centre
Shannon Deacon, Family Service Worker, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto
This presentation will focus on the collaboration between Children's Mental Health and Child Protection Services. It will describe the application of attachment research in supervised access in order to assist parents in recognizing risk factors with their children and learning to respond to their emotional needs in more adaptive ways in order to facilitate the reduction of risk factors and/or plan for permanency. This presentation will focus on the collaboration between the two agencies as a way to model an integration of protection, emotional well being, and learning for families involved in child protection.
Learning Objectives
- Application of attachment research in clinical practice with parents who have been identified as promoting risks to their children.
- The application of a parent interview and the use of a therapeutic alliance to address parenting skills that are seen as risks and to reframe such risks as opportunities to learn what parents did not experience from their families.
- Implications of moving a child protection worker from a silent note taker to a resource rich worker able to help parents learn skills in access with their children.
VIDEO (wmv)
- Section 1 Approx. 15 Minutes
- Section 2 Approx. 24 Minutes
Therapeutic Access IMH Rounds pt 2- Section 3 Approx. 8 Minutes
Therapeutic Access IMH Rounds pt 3- Section 4 Approx. 15 Minutes
Therapeutic Access IMH Rounds pt 4- Section 5 Approx. 5 Minutes
Therapeutic Access IMH Rounds pt 5