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Session 8/15

Page 2/3 Topic introduction: Reflecting on your professional development

Topic introduction: Reflecting on your professional development

The best way to make this evaluation is that you discuss and reflect on the questions presented below with those you have been working on this programme with so far. Please look at the questions below and reflect together on the ones you find most relevant and important.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD

  1. Do you think the child feels secure in your family?
  2. Do you see the child explore and learn, or is it very insecure?
  3. Is the development of the child going on as you expected?
  4. What is the best progress you have seen in the child’s behaviour?
  5. What is still difficult for the child in social relations?
  6. If any: How is your cooperation with the child’s biological family going?
  7. What is your most important experience with this child?
  8. Think of your own behaviour towards the child: What is most successful and what does not seem to work?

YOUR RELATIONS WITH AUTHORITIES AND PROFESSIONALS

  1. How has your cooperation with the child’s case manager or supervisor developed?
  2. How has your relation with the instructor or foster family manager developed?
  3. What would you ask them to support you with, based on your cooperation – what do you need the most in order to care for the child?

YOUR FAMILY RELATIONS


  1. How has fostering the child affected your marital relationship?
  2. (If any): How did fostering affect your relations with your own child or children?
  3. What have your own children (if any) learned from this?
  4. Have your friends, relatives and neighbours become more understanding and supportive concerning your foster care?
  5. Have the biological parents accepted that the child lives with you?
  6. Has the child developed a better understanding of being a child in foster care?
  7. Which of these issues do you think have improved, and which still need your attention?

YOUR SECURE ATTACHMENT PARENTING BEHAVIOUR


  1. Have you managed to be predictable and coherent in the way you respond to the child?
  2. Have you managed to be sensitive?
  3. Have you managed to be accessible to the child when it needs comfort?
  4. Have you managed to feel with the child and not like the child?
  5. Have you managed to reflect with the child about what it feels and thinks, and how it sees others?
  6. What have you learned about practicing secure parenting behaviour?
  7. Which of these behaviours have you found to be most challenging with this foster child?

YOUR WORK WITH THE CHILD’S PEER RELATIONS 

  1. How would you describe the child’s relations with peers?
  2. Has the child found friends and how did you support this?
  3. What is still difficult for the child in making friends and relating to them?
  4. Have you made good relations with other caregivers (teachers, day-care, spare time activity trainers)?
  5. What do you think you have succeeded in and what does still need your attention?
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