As mentioned in the previous blog (HERE) last month, I attended the online conference: Trauma Informed Practice Using Biopsychosocial Models to Promote Recovery organised by ICTC and IRCT. In this blog, I want to mention the presentation given by Jane Herd, who shared her experiences working with ‘troubled’ teenagers. I feel what she said was very important because particularly when it comes to teenagers there is a tendency to blame all ‘misbehaviour’ to their age and ‘unwillingness’ to control themselves. Pointing out the ways in which traumatised teenagers are quite simply unable to self-regulate, will hopefully lead to more understanding.
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Teenagers Will Rebel
At the IFCO seminar in London, early December, Jackie Sanders of the Fostering Network made an interesting remark. She mentioned speaking to a young adult who had been in foster care, who told her that at 16 years old, she had told her social worker that she wanted a different foster family, because she could not stand her foster parents, and the social worker had said ‘okay’, and the girl had been moved. Looking back as a young adult, she realised that this was crazy, that teenagers will all at some point feel that they do not want to live with their parents (regardless of whether they are her foster or birth parents) anymore and that this should never be allowed to lead to a placement breakdown. Yet, it did.
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