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Dr Mark Gregory, from the UEA, said foster carers' ability to "understand the impact of trauma on children and young people's behaviour is crucial".The two-year part-time course, starting in September, was equivalent to the first year of a degree.
Students would gain a professional qualification once they completed the Higher Education certificate in therapeutic fostering."This course has been designed to help foster carers to understand trauma-related behaviour through a therapeutic lens, so they have the tools needed to build and maintain supportive relationships with children and young people in their care," said Dr Gregory.It was aimed at people with at least 80 hours' relevant training.
Foster carers Aaron and Frankie Head said their knowledge of therapeutic fostering had helped the children they looked after better understand themselves."At times, fostering... can be extremely challenging and a personally taxing mission," they said.
"Remaining therapeutic allows us to get to the root of behaviours and fuel ourselves with understanding of their experiences and subsequent needs.
"This has ultimately equipped us to continue through the 'trauma trenches' at times and treat ourselves with gentleness and compassion too.""When I was younger, if you wanted to go and have a night out it was always manageable somehow and I wasn’t from a rich family. Now they have to budget for everything."
Delyth said she sat down with Beca every week to look over her budget and finances and the only "extravagance" her daughter ever included was having her hair and nails done."That’s just for her sanity really," she said.
Delyth said the whole family had struggled in the past few years and would occasionally go without a weekly food shop and eat anything left in the cupboards to save money.One of Delyth's recent inventions has been "roast dinner curry" made from the leftover meat and vegetables from her Monday night dinners.