What we do
We have a team of Family Support and Advocacy Workers in each area of Tayside, who will support Parents and families at home and within their local communities, encompassing a whole family approach model:
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Decider Skills
Our initial stage of support will provide guidance for parents to understand and manage their child's and their own responses to behaviours through our Decider Skills workshop. Decider Skills are strongly grounded in theory, summarising 32 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills under the four-core skill sets of Distress Tolerance, Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
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Peer Support
Parent to Parent offers peer support groups, which are facilitated by a practitioner and assisted by volunteer parents. Parents come together in small groups across Tayside to share experiences, tips and information. The support worker invites speakers from agencies such as Welfare Rights and Carers Centres to give presentations and organises workshops on managing, coping and best supporting their children's behaviour or additional support needs.
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Early Years Support
The early years practitioner will support parents at home and at clinic appointments, provide information about play-schemes and respite services and provide advice about behaviour management. A large part of this service is to give emotional support and help parents work through the difficulties of caring for a child with an additional support or behavioural need.
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Support For Parents
The support workers offer emotional support while the child is awaiting clinical assessment. The service provides a range of supports including accompanying parents to assessment and feedback appointments if required and if a diagnosis is given will support parent in signposting and accessing relevant services.
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Transition
Parents can need support as their children start school and move into high school. Different issues arise such as problems at school, an increase in behavioural problems or concerns about the child moving to high school. The practitioners can help parents to liaise with schools, prepare them for meetings at the school and advise them about statutory and voluntary agencies which can give additional help to the family. They also offer advice in relation to behavioural management.