Resources
This section provides a range of resources to support practice. Resources include books and articles, video clips, downloadable materials for practice, training programmes for foster care and adoption and a training programme for residential care.
Books
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more...The Secure Base Model: Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption.
Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2023) -
more...Promoting Attachment and Resilience: A guide for foster carers and adopters on using the Secure Base model
Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2023) -
more...Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption
Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2018)
Articles
Growing up in foster care: providing a secure base through adolescence (Schofield and Beek 2009)
Videos
A Secure Base in foster care: Brief introduction by Professor Gillian Schofield (9 minutes)
Introduction to the Secure Base model: An attachment and resilience based model of caregiving: lecture by Professor Gillian Schofield (one hour)
Video clips:
Foster carers and a young care leaver talking about providing and receiving Secure Base caregiving - examples for the five Secure Base dimensions
Resource Downloads
Secure Base Checklist: 0 - 18m
Secure Base Checklist: 19m - 4yrs
Secure Base Checklist: 5yrs - 10yrs
Secure Base Checklist: 11yrs - 18yrs
Assessing a placement in difficulties
Assessing foster carers
Building the trust of a newly placed child
Preparing inexperienced foster carers for a long-term placement
Supporting an adolescent placement in difficulties
Supporting grandparents in a kinship care placement
The Secure Base model: promoting attachment and resilience
Training programme: 1 session
Training Programme: 1 session (PDF)
Training Programme: 1 session (PPTs)
Training programme: 5 sessions
Training Programme: 5 sessions (PDF)
Session 1 PPTs: Introduction & Availability
Session 2 PPTs: Sensitivity
Session 3 PPTs: Acceptance
Session 4 PPTs: Co-operation
Session 5 PPTs: Family Membership
Training session for residential care
Introduction to the Secure Base model:
promoting security and resilience in residential care: PPT talk and notes
Introduction to the Secure Base model:
promoting security and resilience in residential care: trainer guide, including PPT slide text and notes
Please note:
Because caregivers and childcare professionals have found these ideas and resources helpful, we want to make them readily available through this website.
There are two simple conditions for their use:
- The source of the materials should be acknowledged. That is: Secure Base model, Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
- The core elements of the Secure Base model (that is, the model itself and the cycles) should not be changed.