Difficult Behaviours - Managing Confrontation and Intimidating Interactions

27/03/2023 - 29/03/2023

| Facilitated online workshop | Session 1: 27 March, 7:30pm - 9pm; Session 2: 29 March, 7:30pm - 9pm

  • Type Virtual
  • LocationOnline, National

Registration Process

  • Open 30/11/2022 at 11:00 AM
  • Close 27/03/2023 at 11:00 AM
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This is an online workshop in two sessions where we look at confrontational interactions between care experienced tamariki and their caregiver. Caregivers are encouraged to explore the reasons why children can regularly be confrontational and the importance of stepping aside from such confrontations is considered. The group will explore different ways of managing their response to avoid being pulled into the confrontation.

Confrontation is very much a coercive interaction (a pattern of controlling behaviours that creates an unequal power dynamic in a relationship). Caregivers will learn how to manage coercive interactions and how children have developed this way of being, mainly unconsciously, to stay safe.

Perhaps for caregivers some of the most difficult behaviours to deal with are when the children lie and steal. These are typical and complex behaviours that children with emotional difficulties display. Caregivers will be helped to understand the reasons why children adopt these behaviours and why they often appear to lack a sense of guilt and remorse. We will explore different ways to help children who lie and steal, without getting angry and confrontational.

The sessions are held on the following dates:

  • Session 1 27/03/2023 from 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM
  • Session 2 29/03/2023 from 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

    • This workshop will be delivered in two online sessions. Participants are required to attend both sessions to receive a certificate of completion.