Building Strong Relationships with Parents: Empowering and Supporting Principles
Parents can feel vulnerable when expressing concerns about their children. To enhance relationships, professionals can follow six key principles: believing the parent, empowering them to act, acknowledging their feelings, valuing the child, staying in touch, and being transparent about service limitations. Implementing these principles can lead to empathetic interactions, stronger relationships, and better outcomes for children.
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Improving Relationships with parents
Bring a group together it could be your DMT, leadership team, service, school or locality team. The film is organised around the 6 principles. You may wish to watch the film twice first time running all the way through and the second time stopping after each principle for a discussion with your teams. How to use this slide deck and film A slide with reflective questions you may wish to consider is at the end of this slide deck. Ask all participant to complete the electronic feedback Contact stephanie.lynch@bristol.gov.uk and she will send a post card for participants as a handy reminder of the 6 principles.
Watch filmon you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmyg3Bz46x0 This film was made by Murmuration Community Therapy and Bristol City Council The aim of the film is to ensure that, in all our interactions we are, empowering and supportingparents
Parents can feel incredibly vulnerable bringing worries about their child to a professional. MurmurationCommunity Therapy conducted extensive research with parents and community groups to understand how professionals and parents could build strong relationships together. Their research highlighted six principles that parents would like professionals toobserve: Summary of key points: 1. Believe the parent 2. Empower the parent to act 3. Acknowledge the parent's feelings 4. Show that you value the child 5. Stay in touch 6. Be upfront about service limitations Following these principles will enable us to dealempathetically withparents,build strong relationships and ultimately achieve the best for our children.
We'd love to know if the film has had an impact on your service or the way that you work as an individual. We'd like to know that we are making a difference and to understand if there are any more actions that we can take to improve the way that professionals and parents can build strong relationships. We'd appreciate it if you could take the time to answer 3 short questions in this survey https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Improvingrelationships SEND/
Graduation poster or postcard If you would like to be sent aprinted version , please contact stephanie.lynch@bristol.gov.uk
What are your immediate thoughts after watching the film? How did the film make you feel perhaps as a parent yourself, or as a professional? Possible reflection questions for teams Which of the 6 principles stood out for you? Which one do you connect with most? What changes will your practice as a result of watching the film? Will you think differently, if so how? Will you speak in a different way if so how? Will you act differently if so how? THANK YOU
