Respite:
- providing temporary care in relief of a primary caregiver
- a period of rest or relief from something difficult
Therapeutic Respite Care is a valuable part of the healing process for families with children with RAD/DTD. When parents have opportunities and supports in place to take a break – a moment of respite – they are able to engage in the parent-child relationship as their best therapeutic self, bringing a higher capacity for attachment, nurturing, and healing.
For children with RAD/DTD, Therapeutic Respite Care is an opportunity to continue working on life skills, adaptive behaviours, and The Six Jobs of Strong Kids while in a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment that encourages and facilitates parent-child attachment.
Therapeutic respite is used to:
- Support parents’ physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
- Give parents time to maintain other relationships (partner, healthy children, and friends)
- Give parents and healthy siblings a much-needed break to rest and regulate
- Allow healthy siblings to get in some uninterrupted Mom/Dad time
- Help motivate a child to reach toward parents
Who should provide respite care:
- Trusted adults who support parents 100%
- Individuals with the necessary training to maintain a therapeutic environment and uphold the practices of therapeutic care used by parents
- Individuals with strong leadership skills who are committed to the child and family’s healing and growth
Looking for Therapeutic Respite Care for your family? Find out more about our in-home respite care program.
Are you ready to provide Therapeutic Respite Care for a family? Check out our upcoming Online Respite Care Courses!
“Parents are the center of a child’s universe. When parents forget to take care of themselves, falter and wear out, the family wears out. And the children go nowhere.”
– Foster Cline
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” Anne Frank