‘Why we’re providing therapy for parents in pre-proceedings’

By Leigh Zywek and Richard Devine, Bath and North East Somerset Council
In our work, we have found that many of the challenges parents faced in safely caring for their children stemmed from coping strategies the parents had developed to handle extremely difficult and traumatic childhoods.
This exposed the significant disparity between the support provided to parents and what they required. We began to feel that the parents involved needed psychological treatment.
At the same time, psychological