Multi-Family Groups in Schools - Online Training

1st June 2020

Online Training Programme - Combination of two hours film and written materials equivalent to five hours learning content

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Location:: Online (joining instructions will be shared with registrants close to the event) Map
Length:: Online Training Programme - Combination of two hours film and written materials equivalent to five hours learning content
Times:: This is an online training - access to the online platform will be granted on the above date and you will have access for 10 months from this date

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£50.00

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About this course

You will receive an email on the above date with instructions on how to join the training. Please note that this is an online training made up of three units (two hours guided video material across 3 units with accompanying written and downloadable resources.).

There will be no face-to-face teaching. Upon purchasing the programme, you will receive a confirmation email. On the above date you will receive an email with joining instructions.

Should you require immediate access, please email training@annafreud.org to discuss your requirements. Access to the online training is granted for 10 months from the course date you purchased.

Discounts

Discounts are available to organisations who wish to purchase more than 5 licences.

6 or more licences - 10% discount
15 or more licences - 20 % discount

Please email training@annafreud.org if you would like to purchase a batch of licences.

Multi-Family Groups in Schools - Background

Multi Family Groups were originally set up in schools in response to the need to provide accessible help for children and young people who are presenting with behavioural and/or emotional wellbeing difficulties at school.

The approach is one that brings parents/carers, children, teachers, psychologists, social workers or mental health professionals together to find new solutions so that the children can be helped to behave better, be happier or more settled and engage with teaching and learning opportunities in school. It is based on many years’ experience of running multi family groups in child and adolescent mental health services and in schools. The groups usually run once weekly for up to two hours with six to eight children and their parents or adult family member attending with them.

Introduction to Multi Family Groups

The online training programme curriculum:

This training programme is designed to teach professionals how to set up and run Multi Family Groups at school.

The programme is packed with detailed filmed illustrations of how a family group works. For this, we are extremely grateful to the children, their parents and the staff working at Downe Manor Primary School in the London Borough of Ealing who very kindly agreed to us filming their Family Group. They are very keen that many more professionals can learn how to run family groups. They have said they want lots more children and their families to receive the same sort of help they have experienced in the group.

The training programme will equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to set up and run their own Multi Family Group in School.

Teaching is broken down into three separate units which are made up of film sequences, guided voiceover and associated reading material.

UNIT 1

Participants will learn how the Targets, Planning, Action, Reflection and Transfer framework guides the first meeting of a Multi Family Group in School.

UNIT 2

Participants will learn what skills are necessary to perform as group leaders on subsequent weeks with filmed illustrations of techniques employable from weeks 3 to 7.

UNIT 3

Participants will learn key theoretical concepts that influence and underpin the delivery of the Multi Family Groups in School model.

Reading materials and downloads are available for each part of the units with the full Manual accessible in Unit 3. At the end of the training programme you will be able to download a completion certificate.

Learning Outcomes:

Unit 1:

Participants will learn how to:

Use two different ways of helping children, parents and school staff design targets that will be relevant and useful in the family group.
Lead a planning phase of a first group meeting so that individuals are fully engaged and know how they will participate in the group.
Run an action phase of the group using a Lego activity that involves parents and children working together in different configurations.
Lead a reflection phase which highlights lessons learned and changes observed, from the children and parents’ participation in the previous action phase.
Lead the group on how to help children and parents think about the best ways of transferring changes initiated in the group, to the classroom and home.

Unit 2:

Participants will learn how to:

Use target setting enabling feedback from all members of the group.
Lead the group in employing alternative ways of planning, including the speedy planning procedure.
Use warm-up activities and group cohesion games.
Enable children to gather filmed feedback from peers and staff at school and how to use this in the Family Group to review progress.
Lead the group using spaghetti model making and composite group portraits activities.
Use reflection techniques in the multi family group.
Lead discussion about how changes arising in the Family Group will be transferred into the classroom and home.
Lead a group ending session.

Unit 3:

Participants will learn about:

Systemic Family Therapy Theory
Multi Family Therapy Theory
Mentalization-based Therapy Theory including the relevance of Epistemic Trust.
Targets, Planning, Action, Reflection and Transfer concepts as they relate to the above.