Psychomotortherapy

28/04/2023

Greetings from London and Worcester!
We hope you're all well and staying productive in your work and personal lives, while being kind to yourselves and taking time off 🌴 when you need to.

We're just about to jump onto an exciting zoom call with 2 key members from Switzerland's Psychomotortherapy Association aka. Psychomotorik Schweiz, where we'll be checking details and intricacies of the documents we've been working on: for our very own UK Association. 🏁

Keep your fingers crossed - we can't wait to share them with you!

👋 Isabel & Annie 🥳 Ready for new horizons.

28/04/2023

X World Congress of Psychomotricity 4 - 7 May 2023 Verona - Palazzo Gran Guardia Psychomotor disorders: update. Perspectives for the intervention in Psychomotricity The congress is organised by the Ciserpp, the Italian Center for Studies and Research in Psychology and Psychomotricity in cooperation....

17/06/2022

What an amazing day yesterday at University South Wales with students of MSc Play Therapy. The students were amazing and so engaged and inquisitive, a real pleasure to work with. Thank you so much Clare Carbis for inviting me.

21/08/2021

18/08/2021

If a child avoids certain activities like balancing, writing, drawing, riding a bike, swimming or climbing there is usually good reasons for it. To the parent it often looks as if the child is stubborn or not in the mood but avoidance behaviour is always an indicator for a difficulty. This could be a struggle with coordination or force adjustment which in return impacts the child’s confidence negatively and results in the avoidance circle.

If your child is often refusing to prticipate in the same activities and you are unsure what the problem is, arrange for an movement assessment called M-ABC 2. This is a standartised assessment which is usually carried out by Occupational Therapists and will get to the bottom of your childs strenghts and difficulties. With tailored support your child will thrive. Get in contact if you want to know more.

13/03/2021

This study highlights that every adoptive family and child is in the great need for support. Every adoptive child has an allocated fund from Adoption Support Fund, which can be used for assessments, to support the child therapeutically or the family as a whole. Get in contact with your social worker to discuss your individual needs and to see what support is available for you.

Professor Shelton and Dr Paine examine adopted children’s mental health in the years following placement with their adoptive family.

07/03/2021

16/02/2021

Its not easy to keep children active indoors. So here is an activity which is great to get them moving. Jumping or hopping is so important for children as it improves the bone strength, whole body tone and coordination. You can just set it up on the floor and see if children invent their own game. Alternatively you can try to find as many paths as possible (like in the video) without going through one hoop twice or over jump one. Remembering and finding a path is great for spacial awareness and planning skills.

15/02/2021

Who knows the magic apple? This is one with a little surprise in it. 😎🤩 It makes eating apples even more fun but has another benefit: Trying to fit the apple back together is like a puzzle and challenges the child’s spacial awareness.

07/02/2021

Very fortunate to be an official provider for ACE and to be working with such a great team!!

To finish our birthday celebrations ACE is very proud to announce that we have become the first regional adoption agency in the world to be certified as a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy service. We are only the fourth place in the world to become certified so this is a significant achievement for us and the families we support.

ACE is committed to providing a wide range of support services to meet the needs of adoptive families, and recognises that this support may be provided from the following:

· Family - support provided within relationship, friends and family, community network

· ACE - ACE staff who are committed to working in a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy ( DDP) informed way and provide support groups, young people’s group, Space to talk service, single adopters group, the Therapeutic Team providing therapeutic parenting training informed by PACE, training for friends and family

· Specialised services - relationship with therapeutic providers

· Universal services - relationships with Education, Health, Children’s Services and CAMHS.

This commitment has developed as we have worked to ensure that the ‘thread’ of DDP principles runs throughout all the support and services provided. This is because we have deepened our understanding of the need to help parents understand and be able to parent in ways that build safety and security.

Helping parents start to implement DDP begins in the way that we relate and respond to prospective adopters and adoptive parents. We have worked to emphasise the importance of ACE workers giving adopters a first-hand experience of an emotionally regulated, reflective and safe relationship. We now seek to model the attitude of PACE, rather than teach or promote the idea of it. ACE workers understand that that these are the sorts of relationship qualities that are associated with secure attachment and that how we interact and relate to adopters can influence the way they relate to their children.

ACE workers have learned that if they can work with adopters in this way it should help them to feel more trusting of ACE, help them share/manage the pressures and stresses that they are facing, help them become more open and able to engage with ideas, support and services aimed at helping them bring DDP principles into their parenting. ACE workers aim to help adoptive parents retain empathy and remain open and receptive to the ‘hidden’ needs of their child so that relationships are strengthened, and a child’s developmental/ trauma needs might be addressed day-to-day. Workers have come to understand that to achieve this, our support services need to begin with empathically understanding the adopter’s experience and the impact that the child (or indeed the adoption process) is having on them.

ACE provides a range of support services aimed at helping parents bring DDP into their parenting. These concepts and ideas are introduced early in the adoption process through the preparation groups, the assessment and matching process and continues through post order support.

If you are interested in attending our therapeutic parenting courses which are DDP informed please contact the ACE team on 0300 369 0556