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Finding a way through - Therapeutic caring for children

	Price: £30.00 (+ £5.25 VAT) Video - Aproximately 60 mins	Produced by DVE Productions for BAAF, April 2003
	Price: £30.00 (+ £5.25 VAT) DVD

This compelling video 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.

Kate Cairns offers insights into what she describes as an ‘interesting way of living a family life’ - ‘the adventure’ that she, her partner and their birth children embarked upon when they fostered twelve children over a 25-year period, memorably described in her best selling book Attachment, Trauma and Resilience (BAAF, 2002).

In the dialogue between John Simmonds and Kate Cairns, a number of issues are sensitively and deeply explored: what was the day-to-day, 24-hour experience of caring for traumatised children like? How did the children respond? How can caregivers help children to heal? What is the impact on the adults and how do the children, in turn, change them?

Passionate, inspirational and powerful, Finding a way through offers those carers and parents who are striving to understand and heal children who have been damaged, ways of reaching out to them. This is an honest and candid exploration of a life-changing experience for all those involved.

Note: Material from this video is also included in a longer video which accompanies the new BAAF training pack entitled Parenting a child who has been sexually abused. The longer video includes material presented by Gerrilyn Smith and is intended to be used in a training setting. Finding a way through has been specially designed to be used by carers and parents independently of any training programme.