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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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The Secure Base Model: Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption.
more...Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2023)
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Promoting Attachment and Resilience: A guide for foster carers and adopters on using the Secure Base model
more...Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (2023)
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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
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.