Parent-Child Attachment Play (PCAP) is a very innovative and empowering early help attachment programme for parents and their children from 3-15+. It can be delivered with groups, 1:1 or through a home-visiting model.  Parents and carers are often concerned about their children’s behaviour and that by adopting a playful attachment approach they will somehow lose control over their family life.  In fact, the opposite is true.  When the parent-child relationship is working, helpful child behaviour generally follows and family life becomes more manageable.

 This 10-step programme is based on the latest attachment research which shows that supporting the parent-child attachment relationship sets the scene for the best outcomes for children right into adulthood.

 PCAP involves sharing three skills with parents and carers through interactive workshop-style sessions;

1.  Play (and the creation of a shoebox or bag of toys/activities designed around the preferences of the child)

2.  Containment (managing time, environment, emotions and helping children to make helpful choices)

3.  Head, Heart and Hands (an attachment tool based on evidence-based Reflective Functioning

 Courses are targeted towards professionals working with children and families not parents.

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Practitioners will learn skills to be able to run Heart to heart sessions, a fun and effective early help attachment programme for parents, carers and their children or teens to attend together.  It can be delivered with groups, 1:1 or through a home-visiting model and is split across two approximate age ranges; 5-9 years and 10-15 years. This flexible programme is based on the latest attachment research which shows that supporting the parent-child attachment relationship sets the scene for the best outcomes for children right into adulthood.  Adolescence can be a challenging time for parents and carers and this programme offers an ideal opportunity to share and experience new and empowering evidence-based knowledge with families.

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Irish Attachment in Action’s National Conference returns to The Helix, DCU, Dublin as we take over the second floor for what should be an exciting and motivating event. Our Community of Practitioners come together to offer a wide and inspirational range of Workshops and Presentations  along the overarching theme of “Why Attachment Matters from Trauma to Hope”. This is going to be something special with Practice Leads from across Ireland delivering 6 workshops and 3 keynote presentations with many of the topics having been requested by members and followers of IAIA.

Please book early as this conference sold out within 4 weeks at our last visit to the Helix.

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Parent Child Attachment Play

This is a gentle play-based approach aimed at improving the attachment quality of the parent-child relationship using attachment mechanisms and child-oriented play with parents/carers and their children aged 3- 15+ years.

PCAP practitioners work with the parent(s) or carer(s) and not directly with the child(ren).

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Irish Foster Care Association Conferences are great events and highly commended by IAIA members. They are wonderfully inclusive with programs for Children, Teenagers, Families, Carers and Professionals. This year’s conference theme is ‘Fostering Stability’. There will be 29 workshops over three days with a separate children and young people’s programme. The conference brings together all those with an interest in foster care. This years conference will offer scope to explore how the system can better support stability for children in foster care and look at many aspects of practice and policy of relevance to this theme

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