Why Self Care is Essential When Supporting Traumatized Children Joanna has been a foster parent for nearly 20 years. She has cared deeply for all of the children who have lived with her and she has done her very best to help them heal and recover. Lately though, she has been feeling bone-tired. There doesn’t seem to be much joy left, it feels like there is always too much to do and nothing that she is doing with the kids …
Self-care is a cornerstone of success for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, thing on which all other successes depend. For this reason, this issue of Fostering Perspectives shares insight and reflections from foster parents and others and points you to self-care ideas and resources.
This article and questionnaire is designed to help you reflect on your experiences, identify your strengths, your support system and give you practical insight into how to aid your behaviorally challenged child/youth.
This article highlights some positive messaging and awareness of self/boundaries that can be incorporated into your life to create peace and balance.
Compassion fatigue can develop from a combination of burnout and secondary/vicarious traumatization. Here are key elements to enhance your resilience in the workplace.
Foster families, this is a worksheet for you to plan out what you would do under extremely trying circumstances, even though this may be rare. It is important to develop a framework using your before you are faced with a crisis or feel overwhelmed.
This assessment helps you identify the activities that you would like to add to your self-care practice in each self-care domain.
This assessment will help you highlight the things you are already doing for yourself and assist you in evaluating areas where there might be an imbalance in how you practice self-care.
This assessment helps you identify what you do now (either well or poorly) to manage the stress in your life.
Factors that can influence the level of Care Team Functionality by David Brown I have been reflecting on my behaviour during some recent events, meetings and interactions with both colleagues and friends. I noticed with significant disappointment how often I would hesitate to say something due to my own uncertainty regarding whether, by saying it, I might look foolish, uninformed or in some way not as competent as I wanted to present myself to be. It struck me that even …