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Introduction to personal care routines
This course session covers:
- Sensitive interactions
- The importance of interactions care times like feeding sleeping & changing
- How important brain connections are made during these crucial times
Length of session:
The session should take between 30 to 40 minutesYou will need:
Each participant will need a pen and a note book or a printed copy of the Session 2.2 Personal care routines task sheet - Available in the further reading section- 00:09
- One of the really significant aspects
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- of the key person approach
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- is that a child's personal care routines
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- shouldn't be handled by really,
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- more than one or two key people
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- whom that child knows.
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- What do we mean by personal care routines?
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- These are things like changing, feeding and washing.
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- By ensuring that there is only one or two people
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- carrying out these routines,
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- really reduces stress for the child
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- and it also provides lots of opportunities
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- for warm, intimate interactions
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- that build attachment.
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- If a shared care system is working well,
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- practitioners are able to support each other
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- to allow for personal care routines
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- to be carried out with more time
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- allowing for those warm interactions
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- that build attachment.
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- The key person approach
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- is all about using these everyday routines
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- to strengthen attachment relationships
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- and to ensure that each child feels secure
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- and cared for by someone who knows them well.
