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Kinship Child Education Tools Peer van der Kreeft Head of prevention, De Sleutel Lecturer prevention, faculty of social work, University College Ghent, Belgium Dundas Castle, Edinburgh, March 16th 2011
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Kinship Child Education Tools Peer van der Kreeft
Head of prevention, De Sleutel
Lecturer prevention, faculty of social work, University College
Ghent, Belgium
Dundas Castle, Edinburgh, March 16th 2011
Making it easier to talk withyour children in care about the
addiction problem of theirmother or father
: Why and how?
• One of Belgian need assessment
conclusions
• Good practice in Switzerland (ispa.ch) and
Scotland (alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk)
• We made specific adaptations
– focus on resilience
– deleting parts expanding on addiction
treatment of mother
Test and Dissemination
• Assessed attractive and easy to read
• Reference to illegal drugs seemed to be a
threshold though
• In test period (foreseen # 250 but
distributed +700)
• Nationwide dissemination with Pleegzorg
(Fostercare) and VAD (Alco & Drugs) in 2011
Is that all there is (1)?
“How to read Bobbie” with six messages:
1. Cherish the jewel
2. Let’s go! (play)
3. Resilience
4. Things you can’t help
5. People that care for me
6. Grown ups aren’t perfect
Manual “how to read Bobbie”What does it mean?
Questions you can ask
What can you do together?
• Simple: throw a ball
• Bit deeper: pix of grandma
and grandchild that like each
other, print it and draw a nice
frame
Is that all there is (2)?
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Interventiespectrum voor psychische stoornissen (naar Mrazek en Haggerty, 1994)
Vroeginterventie
Three prevention interventions
Three kinds of prevention
Universal – whole group
Selective – vulnerable group
Indicated – vulnerable individual
Mapping, labeling and stigmatizing
No stigmatize
Yes take responsibility
Bobbie is selective prevention
Addicted parents
and their young
childcare – prevention – resilience
is indicated
prevention
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Addicted parents: sometimes children educate
their parents instead of the other way around encare.info
Indicated prevention:
recommendations and tools
for caretakers of addicted
parents, their children and
kinship carers.
Disseminated 2011 through
addiction treatment and
consult centres, Pleegzorg
foster care and crisis
kindergartens .
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Ballen: oeps, gemist!
The hole in the
fenceLifeskills for 5-8 year old
is universal
prevention
Universal prevention
has increased
effect in high risk
groupsc
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Lifeskills(Botvin „81, WHO ‟94)
5 out of 18 stories in
kindergarten
approach include
addiction issues
Addiction-specific themes
In story …
1: the secret of the vegetables
2: the magic potion of mushroom
4: sprout loses his way
5: the magic potion doesn’t work
13: little pea is sick Increase self
esteem, influence
attitude to
substances,
contribute to
accepting help,…
Lifeskills approach
is continued
up to 18 year
in schools with
CSI Comprehensive
Social Influence
Programmes
including
Normative Belief
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Action research: practicioners work
together with researchers
Bobbie in Scotland:
alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk
Resilience creates fun and happiness for kids…
…not an extra burden.
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