Parenting with Theraplay®: a group intervention for parents and carers
This intervention brings a small group* of parents together in person with an experienced and qualified Theraplay® Practitioner accredited by Theraplay® UK. The structured intervention focuses on improving and deepening the relationships between parents and their child/children.
About Parenting with Theraplay®
This intervention is a cost-effective way of providing a parent-focused Theraplay® Intervention and has the added benefit of generating self-sustaining parent support. It is also ideal as a preparation for those families who may move onto engagement with a formal Theraplay® Intervention with their children. It is the only parent group intervention to be developed, overseen and accredited by Theraplay® UK. The intervention is suitable for motivated adoptive parents, Special Guardians, foster carers and birth parents.
The intervention includes the following additional resources:
- Theraplay® workbook and resources
- Worksheets, exercises and specific activities to use at home
*(minimum group size of 6; maximum group size of 12)
The venue
The group is run at Gateway Psychology: 7-9 The Boulevard, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 6BD
Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided but participants will need to bring or buy their own lunch (details of sandwich shops/cafes in the local vicinity can be provided).
Dates/times for the next Parenting with Theraplay® group:
Please refer to our upcoming events for the next Parenting with Theraplay® group.
Attendance at all four sessions is required.
Goals and outcomes
- Introduce parents to the underlying attachment and trauma principles of Theraplay®
- Work together through the Theraplay® dimensions using the workbook and resources
- Focus on each parent’s specific parenting style and concerns about their child
- Deepen parental understanding
- Develop new ways of addressing relationship challenges
- Practice ways of managing issues using Theraplay®
- Try strategies at home and feed back to the group
- Develop mutual support between the parent group that can be sustained following the group
Outcome measurement tools
Goal Based Outcome measures will be undertaken pre and post intervention, rated by both parent and intervention lead. Three standard intervention goals will be rated, supplemented by two specific parent goals. The outcomes will be shared with parents and referrers.