- New web resource for evidence based intervention programmes for vulnerable children and their families A new web resource was launched on Monday 21 January to support the evidence based interventions programme for looked...
AdOpt - a parenting programme for adopters
Welcome to AdOpt – a new parenting programme to help adoptive parents get off to a healthy start...
Families
...for all families, young people and children including adoptive families, foster and kinship carers...
Commissioners
...for those making decisions about commissioning, developing partnerships, funding services, local service redesign, cost efficiency, implementation, sustainability and shared services...
Practitioners
...for social workers, mental health professionals, therapists, residential social workers, youth offending workers and those who are interested in working with families and young people...
Researchers
...for information about the evidence base, on-going research, service evaluation, outcomes and measures for AdOpt...
A parenting programme for adopters...
AdOpt is a group parenting programme designed for adoptive parents to offer parenting techniques which address the specific difficulties that adopted children may present. The intervention is informed by learning from neuroscience, behavioural psychology and attachment theory.