Abstract
Objective: In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown restrictions, service providers faced significant challenges in delivering programmes to support their vulnerable service users. Foster carers-an already often isolated group of caregivers - were offered an adapted remote-delivery model of the Reflective Fostering Programme (Redfern et al., Adopt. Foster., 42, 2018, 234) from March 2020.
Method: This paper outlines the adaptation process of the original programme to online-remote delivery and describes the feedback from participants in the programme.
Results: The adaptation of the Reflective Fostering programme to online, remote delivery had both strengths and weaknesses - including wider access to foster carers who might struggle to attend in person and challenge a to maintaining a Mentalizing space online and ensuring confidentiality within a therapeutic space. The programme was overwhelmingly well received by foster carers in this format.
Conclusions: There are opportunities and challenges in the delivery of online therapeutic services, particularly those with a group format. This paper contributes initial reflections to what we hope will be a rapidly developing literature on best practice of supporting group services in an online format.
Method: This paper outlines the adaptation process of the original programme to online-remote delivery and describes the feedback from participants in the programme.
Results: The adaptation of the Reflective Fostering programme to online, remote delivery had both strengths and weaknesses - including wider access to foster carers who might struggle to attend in person and challenge a to maintaining a Mentalizing space online and ensuring confidentiality within a therapeutic space. The programme was overwhelmingly well received by foster carers in this format.
Conclusions: There are opportunities and challenges in the delivery of online therapeutic services, particularly those with a group format. This paper contributes initial reflections to what we hope will be a rapidly developing literature on best practice of supporting group services in an online format.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 16-30 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Psychology and Psychotherapy |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue number | S1 |
| Early online date | 20 Sep 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2024 |
Keywords
- adverse childhood experiences
- group psychotherapy
- mentalization
- parenting
- qualitative research