webinar series Insights from the Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) programme


Date: Thursday 20 August 2020 at 12:00 Presenter: Emily Ingle. Facilitated by Marion Dixon. Eligibility: AFT Members only.


Limited availability – please book early to avoid disappointment Cost: Free to AFT Members. In this webinar, Emily will give an overview of the Reducing Parental


Conflict Programme and share insights from the digital findings (user research has been carried out with mothers and fathers from low-income families), EIF's (Early Intervention Foundation) Engaging with Disadvantaged Families findings (2019) as well as anecdotes from the Contract Package Area face to face provision from all 4 geographies and the Innovation and Challenge Funds. Face to Face support: One third of the budget is being used to


deliver support to disadvantaged families in 30 local authorities across England, testing 8 evidence based couple conflict interventions which have shown promise when used elsewhere. The aim is to build the UK evidence base for which interventions work when reducing parental conflict. Encouraging Wider Innovation: We are also funding further


innovation to address parental conflict: Working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England to deliver a joint £6m package of support


aimed at improving the outcomes of children of alcohol-dependent parents Innovation Fund. Encouraging the use of new approaches to address parental


conflict, £2.7m investment in the Challenge Fund, provides grant funding to 10 innovative projects to gather learning on what works to reduce parental conflict digitally, and for families where the children face other disadvantages.


Emily Ingle has been a youth worker, teacher, early years professional, childcare manager, parenting support and programme manager, commissioning manager and troubled families programme policy and practice manager with over 20 years of experience in the field of family work, at both practitioner and supervisory levels, based initially in the charitable sector, schools and for the last 13 years within Bristol’s local authority children and families services. For the last 18 months, she has been seconded to the Department of Work & Pensions as a Regional Integration Lead for the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme supporting local areas to develop their approaches in understanding the importance of helping parents with their relationship difficulties as a key issue in preventing serious problems within the family. Engaging both parents, including the non-resident parents Emily believes is an important building block in understanding and helping families to make changes.


Zoom Booking page link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ti14ZLbR_apmyL--wIQoA (or book via the AFT website events page)


Free CPD course: Working with Infidelity


Andreas Vossler and Naomi Moller at the Open University have produced a free CPD training course on ‘Working with Infidelity’: https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=4 496


This is a 12-hour online course and will provide a certificate of completion for anyone who both completes it and passes the quiz.


The course content has been checked for practice relevance and accuracy by Relate, and Naomi and Andreas have been doing research and teaching on therapeutic work with infidelity for about 10 years.


Welcome to Working with infidelity


Infidelity is reportedly one of the most common problems in couple counselling and therapy, with a significant percentage of relationship partners seeking help to address the effects of an extramarital affair or other forms of infidelity. In many of these cases, infidelity can have a devastating and long-lasting impact on relationship partners and their relationship. At the same time infidelity is seen as one of the most difficult areas that couple counsellors and therapists work with, and one that they may feel ill-equipped to respond to.


This online course is intended for counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health practitioners working with infidelity in their practice. The course provides evidence-based answers to the key questions around therapeutic work with infidelity:


? How do clients and practitioner perceive and define infidelity, and how has this changed over time?


? What are contextual factors and constellations for an affair and what impact does infidelity have on relationship partners?


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? What specific challenges and difficulties do practitioners face when working with individuals, couples and families affected by infidelity?


? What are helpful ways to work with infidelity as presenting issue?


? How do practitioners’ own beliefs and implicit theories about infidelity impact on their client work?


At the end of this online CPD course, participants will have a thorough understanding of infidelity and the impact it can have on individuals, couples and families. Participants will also have the confidence to support clients who present with this issue in their counselling and psychotherapy practice. The course uses reflective and interactive activities to help practitioners to explore and learn how infidelity can be defined and explained, how it affects relationship partners and how they can work effectively with individuals, couples and families who seek help for infidelity.


The course is badged and participants will get a statement of participation if they successfully completed the knowledge test and evaluation at the end of the course.


The course was produced by Dr Andreas Vossler and Dr Naomi Moller, both Senior Lecturers in Psychology at The Open University and trained practitioners. Andreas and Naomi have a long research and practice history of working with intimate relationships and the impact of affairs on relationship functioning.


The content has been reviewed by Relate's Senior Clinical Team and the course is being promoted within Relate's network.


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