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Additional Services for Subscribing
Local Authorities
Please contact us
for prices
- Individual adult session (50
mins)
- Individual child sessions (50
mins)
- Parent / Child session (90mins)
- Parent / Couple Consultation (90min,
one counsellor)
- Family Consultation (120 min, two
counsellors)
- Family Consultation (180 min, two
counsellors)
- Family Work Report (other than
Comprehensive Family Assessment or Intensive Summary
Report)
- Professional Consultation, including
for Children’s Guardians (90 min)
- Assessment of Contact Needs and
Arrangements
- Comprehensive Family Assessment
- Family Intensive
- Home Visits
TRAINING
PAC has a full and exciting training
programme for professionals and service users. PAC
also offers bespoke training for social workers, other
professionals and all parties to adoption on a range of
topics relating to pre- and post-adoption issues, provided
within your local authority area.
For PAC’s current training programme or for
bespoke training queries contact PAC’s Training
Department on 020 7284 0555, email training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk.
COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY ASSESSMENT
A comprehensive family assessment of the support and
therapy a family needs is typically advised when an
adoptive family is under great strain due to constant and
pervasive difficulties. The Comprehensive Family
Assessment identifies adoption issues, attachment
difficulties, emotional distress, behavioural problems,
levels of parenting stress, racial and cultural identity
issues and risk factors. The assessment process
involves clinical interviews and observations, case-history
analysis and psycho-diagnostic tests.
INTENSIVE FAMILY THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMME (up to 12
Sessions)
For children with severe attachment and behavioural
difficulties, our intensive family therapeutic programme is
tailored to individual families’ needs, normally
offering 12 three-hour sessions with two counsellors.
All work takes place at PAC’s headquarters in Kentish
Town. The service includes a summary report and one
network meeting. Please contact PAC’s Child
& Family Therapeutic Service on 020 7284 2630 for
further details.
ASSESSMENT OF COMPLEX CONTACT NEEDS AND ARRANGEMENTS (6
– 8 Sessions)
PAC has been providing assessment and mediation of
complex face-to-face contact for over ten years. The
need for a comprehensive assessment in order to identify
what form of contact is likely to deliver the best outcomes
for the child and how this is to be best facilitated is
even more pertinent with the increase in Special
Guardianship arrangements. PAC will arrange
professional consultation, meet with each of the parties,
provide mediation, make recommendations and draw up contact
agreements. A detailed report will be
provided.
LOCAL COUNSELLING SURGERIES
In order to improve accessibility to service users, PAC
can provide locally based counselling surgeries at a
convenient venue within your authority. Surgeries
take place one day per month and are provided by two
qualified PAC counsellors (eight appointments per
day). A double appointment may be used for couple
work. The surgery venue can be provided by your
agency or charged in addition.
INTERMEDIARY SERVICES FOR ADOPTED ADULTS & BIRTH
RELATIVES
Following the enactment of the Adoption and Children Act
2002, adopted adults and adult birth relatives have a right
to apply for intermediary services. With years of
experience and a dedicated team of specialists, PAC can
provide bespoke packages of intermediary services for
adopted adults and birth relatives, combining any of the
following services:
- Assistance to adopted adults in
obtaining information about their adoption and in
preparation for searching for close birth relatives lost
through adoption
- Assisting and counselling birth
relatives in making an approach to family members
- Acting as intermediary in
facilitating contact between birth relatives and adopted
adults
- Facilitating and mediating reunion
where both parties consent to contact
- Ongoing counselling support during
any of the above processes
- Access to pre- and post-reunion
groups and workshops
Costs will be determined on a case by case
basis. Additional services can be tailored to
the service user/local authority’s needs.
Please contact PAC for further details.
Please contact us for further
information.
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