Finding a way through

This compelling video reflects on and analyses some of the tasks and challenges involved in the day-to-day parenting of children who have experienced abuse and trauma. Kate Cairns offers insights into what she describes as an ‘interesting way of living a family life’ - ‘the adventure’ that she, her partner and their birth children embarked upon when they fostered twelve children over a 25-year period, memorably described in her best selling book Attachment, Trauma and Resilience (BAAF, 2002). In the dialogue between John Simmonds and Kate Cairns, a number of issues are sensitively and deeply explored: what was the day-to-day, 24-hour experience of caring for traumatised children like? How did the children respond? How can caregivers help children to heal? What is the impact on the adults and how do the children, in turn, change them? Passionate, inspirational and powerful, Finding a way through offers those carers and parents who are striving to understand and heal children who have been damaged, ways of reaching out to them. This is an honest and candid exploration of a life-changing experience for all those involved.

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