{"id":27,"date":"2018-06-05T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillarsofparenting.co.uk\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:01:45","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pillarsofparenting.co.uk\/index.php\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Here’s how Emotional Warmth Parenting was developed by combining real life issues in the care of young people with the academic research, theory and experience of\u00a0 a child psychologist and the practical experience of a children’s home manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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This quotation attributed to Yogi Berra (an American baseball player) is a good opener for our story which is about how Colin Maginn, his\u00a0 staff in his children’s home and myself, worked together to turn theory into practice and went on to develop our Emotional Warmth Parenting approach.\u00a0<\/p>

Dr Se\u00e1n Cameron<\/p>

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Th<\/strong>e Pillars of Parenting story:<\/b><\/h2>

As the owner-director of two London children\u2019s homes for almost 20 years, Colin Maginn felt proud of the kindness, patience and tolerance that his staff had with the children and young people in their care, many of whom had complex needs and challenging behaviours. However, Colin was aware that in some incidents children were poorly handled. It was clear that often staff members didn\u2019t know how or why these situations had occurred and conversely, they couldn\u2019t work out what they had done so skilfully when things went spectacularly well with the children. So\u2026 he phoned a friend, child psychologist Dr Se\u00e1n Cameron and together they worked on a new approach which enabled and empowered carers to understand the complex needs of the children and how to provide the support they so badly need. To share their work they published a book (see below)<\/b> and several peer-reviewed articles.<\/span><\/p>

Ideas behind Emotional Warmth Parenting:<\/b><\/h2>

1. Although some looked-after children will benefit from individual therapy, e.g. from therapists in CAMHS, the people who are most likely to bring about positive change for these young people, are those who spend the most time in direct contact with them, namely their foster and adoptive parents and residential carers.<\/p>

2. Direct contact foster or adoptive parents and carers need to have the knowledge which helps them to understand the impact of maltreatment on children and young people who have been taken into care. Their practice should combine emotional warmth and kindness with evidence-based knowledge established as improving opportunities for children to have fulfilling lives.<\/p>

3. Such a body of knowledge and practice exists in applied psychology theory and research, but it is often scattered in professional journals, and not-very-reader-friendly books, and difficult to put into everyday child care practice.<\/p>

4. The adaptation of psychological knowledge to everyday child-care practice can be achieved through regular consultation sessions with small groups of carers led by a child psychologist trained in the use of the Emotional Warmth model of professional childcare.<\/p>

5. Understanding and supporting who exhibit self-defeating behaviour .<\/p>

6. Measuring the progress of each young person, over time.\u00a0<\/p>

Emotional Warmth Parenting: The key components of the approach:<\/b><\/h2>

\u2022 Empowering significant adults by sharing the psychological theory and research underpinning the Emotional Warmth model through consultations with a psychologist and training.<\/p>

\u2022 Using the eight \u2018Pillars of Parenting\u2019 in the consultations with the psychologist, parenting needs and tasks are identified and individual strategies are discussed and agreed:<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1. Primary Care & Protection,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. Attachments,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3. Positive Self-Perception,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4. Emotional Competence,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5. Self-Management,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6. Resilience,<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 7. A Sense of Belonging and<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 8. Personal and Social Responsibility.<\/p>

\u2022 Understanding and supporting children and young people with Developmental Trauma.<\/p>

\u2022 Focus on young people\u2019s signature strengths, identifying, building and using them.<\/p>

\u2022 Recording and utilising the data from (a) the \u2018Progress and Development Checklist\u2019 for each young people and (b) from obtaining and monitoring the feedback from the children, their carers, the psychologist\u00a0 consultant, other professionals involved and service managers in both the private sector and local authorities.<\/p>

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The Pillars of Parenting Ltd.,<\/p>

Business & Innovation Centre,<\/p>

Wearfield,\u00a0Sunderland, \u00a0U.K.\u00a0 SR5 2TA<\/p>

e-mail colinmaginn@pillarsofparenting.co.uk<\/p>

Tel: +44 (0) 191 516 6634 or +44 (0) 7983 544899<\/p>

Company registered in the UK, number 06109026<\/p>

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