Books, booklets & multimedia
Authors: Kate Cairns
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Kate Cairns works as a trainer consultant for BAAF Southern Region. She and her husband Brian Cairns have three birth children as well as 12 foster children.
Books that Kate Cairns has written, edited or illustrated include (listed alphabetically):
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Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children
by Kate Cairns (BAAF, reprinted 2006)
Price: £11.95
Offers an insight into family life with children who have experienced attachement difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma. Over 8,000 copies sold.
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Building Identity
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland
(BAAF/Akamas, May 2008)
Price: £49.95
Price: £39.95 for members
A training programme designed to help carers help children overcome disruptive early experiences and boost their identity and self-esteem. Includes a CD-ROM containing PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts.
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Finding a way through - Therapeutic caring for children
Kate Cairns in conversation with John Simmonds (Produced by DVE Productions for BAAF , April 2003)
Price: £30.00 (+ £5.25 VAT)
This compelling film reflects on and analyses some of the tasks and challenges involved in the day-to-day parenting of children who have experienced abuse and trauma. Available in both DVD and video format
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Learn the Child - Helping looked after children to learn
By Kate Cairns and Chris Stanway (BAAF, July 2004)
Price: £25.00
This resource recommends ways in which looked after children - and any other traumatised children - can be best supported in their learning.
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Safer Caring
A training programme
Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland (BAAF, 2007)
Price: £39.95
Foster carers who take on the risk of caring for troubled children need and deserve the best help available. And agencies owe it to them to prepare them as well as possible. This training course aims to give foster carers the knowledge they need to prevent, recognise and get the right treatment for secondary traumatic stress disorders and to assess and manage risk and work as part of a team to provide safer caring.
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Transitions and Endings
Kate Cairns (BAAF/Akamas Training 2008)
Price: £29.95
This training programme aims to help carers helps traumatised children and themselves to face change and loss in a managed and constructive way. Subjects covered include the importance of attachment and resilience, trauma and the impact of secondary traumatic stress, and promoting and managing constructive endings. Includes CD ROM with PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts.
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Trauma and Recovery
A training programme
By Kate Cairns and Eileen Fursland
(BAAF, 2007)
Price: £49.95
This flexible training course has been designed to help social workers, staff in residential homes, foster carers and adoptive parents to understand more about the needs of traumatised children. It explains how carers can help children to adapt to the developmental impairments they have suffered, build resilience in a traumatised child and provide an environment that will enhance healing.
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