Support children and young people to have positive relationships
In this tutorial you will learn:
- That practitioners play a vital role in helping children to interact appropriately with others
- how you can support children and young people to make and maintain positive relationships
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Positive relationships’ from Dewis Cymru
- ‘Supporting children and families affected by a family member’s offending – A Practitioner’s Guide’ from i-HOP, the Department for Education and Barnardo’s
- ‘Managing risks and benefits of contact’ on the Fostering and adoption website
- ‘Promoting healthy relationships’ from NSPCC Learning
- ‘Healthy and unhealthy relationships’ from NSPCC learning
- ‘Children and conflict in the classroom’ from the Community Playthings website
- ‘A guide to supporting young people with their friendships’ from The Children’s Society
- ‘Frenemies’ and toxic friendships: pre-teens and teenagers’ from the Australian Raising Children website.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Prepare an activity to use with children or young people that will help them to learn how to communicate effectively with others. You could use the medium of art, drama or music, for example, to encourage and support basic relationship skills. The activity could cover many skills or just one or two.
- Conflict in and of itself is not really a good or a bad thing, the issue is how you deal with it. Click to read this article on ‘Conflict resolution in youth groups’ and think about how you can adapt the ideas for those you work with.
- This article written by Karen Winter looks at ‘Supporting positive relationships for children and young people who have experience of care’.
- Click on the link to read more about supporting teenagers through a breakup on the Counselling Matters website.
- The Family Lives website includes this article on ‘Abusive relationships’. Read the article and check your understanding of how to support children or young people to recognise and take action when they are involved in abusive or exploitative relationships.
- Read ‘Impact of Punishment: Families of People in Prison’ from the University of Glasgow and reflect on how you could support a child whose parent was in prison to maintain a positive relationship with that parent.
- Think And Challenge
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