This Introduction to PACE course has been designed to assist professionals, carers, and parents in understanding the origins of PACE within Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). It aims to enhance comprehension of how developmental trauma affects the children with whom you live and work and provides guidance on how to support them most effectively through therapeutic parenting. The course acknowledges the challenges and triumphs you may encounter in parenting and reassures you that you are not alone. By trusting the journey alongside the child and yourself, it seeks to foster improved outcomes and brighter futures. 

Aims:

1. Enhance knowledge of attachment theory and developmental trauma

2. ⁠Introduce the concepts of PACE and therapeutic parenting

3. ⁠Reflect on your experience of parenting children with trauma

4. ⁠Consider whether therapeutic parenting may be helpful for your family or organisation

Average Time: 2.5 hours