Redfern, Sheila;
Pursch, Benita;
Katangwe-Chigamba, Thando;
Sopp, Rumour;
Irvine, Karen;
Sprecher, Eva A;
Schwaiger, Theresa;
(2023)
The Reflective Fostering Programme—Adapting a group parenting programme for online delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
10.1111/papt.12497.
(In press).
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown restrictions, service providers faced significant challenges in delivering programmes to support their vulnerable service users. Foster carers-an already often isolated group of caregivers - were offered an adapted remote-delivery model of the Reflective Fostering Programme (Redfern et al., Adopt. Foster., 42, 2018, 234) from March 2020. METHOD: This paper outlines the adaptation process of the original programme to online-remote delivery and describes the feedback from participants in the programme. RESULTS: The adaptation of the Reflective Fostering programme to online, remote delivery had both strengths and weaknesses - including wider access to foster carers who might struggle to attend in person and challenge a to maintaining a Mentalizing space online and ensuring confidentiality within a therapeutic space. The programme was overwhelmingly well received by foster carers in this format. CONCLUSIONS: There are opportunities and challenges in the delivery of online therapeutic services, particularly those with a group format. This paper contributes initial reflections to what we hope will be a rapidly developing literature on best practice of supporting group services in an online format.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Reflective Fostering Programme—Adapting a group parenting programme for online delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/papt.12497 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12497 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychology, Clinical, Psychiatry, Psychology, adverse childhood experiences, group psychotherapy, mentalization, parenting, qualitative research |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178017 |
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