Emotional intelligence and clear communication for foster carers
April 27, 2008 by Megan · 2 Comments
I love that many people are prepared to foster children. Australia does not make a practice of adopting out children in care and there is a huge need for foster carers to care for kids until they age out of care at 18 years of age. Kids in care also wish for a family to live with, to stay with long term and a family to be safe with. We need lots of foster families – many more than we have now.
A past foster carer myself, I nowadays do some training for foster carers and foster care staff. Yesterday I had the pleasure of training in “Positive and Protective” ways of responding to challenging and traumatised behaviours in children and young people in care.
Additional information on Emotional Intelligence and the formula for clear communication was requested. Here it is. Just click on the links and you will be taken to short articles to further enhance your knowledge on the topic:
Emotional Intelligence 101
A list of feeling words
A sheet of feeling faces
How to listen
How to teach clear communication to children
Emotional Intelligence and feeling words
The Anger Volcano: Anger is a secondary emotion.
What is FASD? (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders)
Thanks for fostering children in need of protection. You guys are just the best. If you are interested in investing in the future by becoming a foster carer in the Cairns area, please contact Families Plus: 19 Vallely Street, Freshwater Qld 4870.Telephone: (07) 4058 0433. If you are unable to foster a child in your home then consider financially sponsoring a child in Australia. Family Focus Australia (left) is waiting for your call to help.
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What a great list of links! Quite keen to read the Anger Volcano. Have some issues with that in our house at the moment.
Hello PQ. The anger volcano is a useful analogy. I used our fridge as a white board and wrote the formula for clear communication on it: I feel…, when you…, because…
By age 3, one of my kids had the best feeling vocabulary I had even seen in one so young and he was able to use the formula for clear communication – it didn’t prevent his age appropriate and syndrome specific tantrums but it gave us all a framework to operate our anger at each other within.
Good luck with it in your home. I would love to hear how you go with it.