Paediatric-Optimised Conversation Approach (POCA) - Course

About this course

Have you heard of the term ‘coaching’ but are not sure what it is or how you can implement it within your paediatric therapy sessions? Then this is the course for you. The Paediatric Optimised Conversation Approach (POCA) takes the theoretical knowledge of concepts such as; parent engagement, therapeutic relationship and strengths-based approaches and packages them into a practical coaching framework. POCA acts as the conversational vehicle for successful and realistic behaviour change so the important adult in the child’s life can make informed and impactful changes between sessions.  Since it is a conversational clinical approach, it complements existing therapeutic strategies and programmes. Therefore, the approach can easily be implemented by therapists in their next therapy session for tangible, rewarding results for their clients.

Course topics

This course consists of a self-paced online module followed by an interactive, practical half-day training workshop delivered live and online by Elena Loraine. It is designed to provide you with tools for having practical, positive, and productive conversations that result in real-life impact for the child. The training will raise your awareness of the successful techniques you are already using and further strengthen your sessions with new and innovative approaches and strategies.

In this course, you will:

• Be introduced to the key concepts and theory underpinning coaching within the paediatric therapy context
• Delve into an evidence-based and practical model of coaching
• Watch and analyse real-life coaching video examples
• Reflect and discuss in small groups the workshop materials and your clinical practice
• Build a practical resource to develop your coaching skills in your next therapy session

Why attend

You believe in co-production approaches – seeking to work together with the adults in a child’s life and to have joint ownership of the work and have moved away from a medicalised ‘doing to’ model, to a ‘doing with’ approach. And, you want to develop your knowledge and skills to have practical, positive and productive conversations during sessions; enabling the important adult in the child’s life can make informed and impactful changes between sessions.

Consider our free taster

To help clinicians gain a better sense of POCA we offer a FREE self-study taster. The free taster presents the fundamental principles of POCA via a short sequence of video explainers. From receipt of your invitation to the content, access remains active for one week. You can request access to this content at CourseBeetle.

Course timings

Information about course times is available at CourseBeetle.

Course fees

Course Price Per Person

Book and pay online - £132

Organisations - £154

Student / Returner - £77

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