Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting ─ A Model for Supporting Children and Young People

Robinson, a clinical psychologist at the children's home that developed the model, and Philpot, a writer and journalist who has written on social care, outline a restorative parenting model meant to help children in residential care recover from developmental trauma from negative parenting due to problems like abuse or neglect. The model works with children who cannot live with their birth families and have not been helped by mainstream foster and residential care, and it involves therapeutic re-parenting by residential workers that focuses on addressing the emotional, behavioral, social, and developmental needs of the child, and the role of people, relationships, and the environment of the residential home in recovery. They discuss the home environment, the role of the therapeutic parent, long-term aspects, the role of schools, and staff consultation with a psychologist and the child's relationship with other professionals. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Dr Chris Robinson is a clinical psychologist at Halliwell Homes. He provides ongoing consultation on the recovery of every child placed on the Halliwell recovery programme. He has extensive experience working in CAMHS, social services liaison, learning disability and latterly family and private law. Terry Philpot is a writer and journalist who has edited or written 15 books on social care from sex offending to the children's services. His latest books are 31 London Cemeteries to Visit Before You Die (2012) and Beside the Seaside: Brighton's People and Its Places (2015).