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PHASE THREE: PARENT MEETING

What is happening in this section

 Bringing the Child Feedback together

 Parent Feedback: modifying feedback

according to the PRS and the CYRS

 Parent Feedback: Strategies

 Final feedback session with children

Meeting with parents

Any discussion with parents needs to start from a position that the parents are the
experts on their child. The expertise in giving feedback to parents is captured in
helping parents to identify what they already see, and in building from the known
to the new and surprising.

Feedback to parents can be brought from two lenses:
 The first is the content that the child themselves provided. This is the feedback
that the child agreed was not private and includes any play based content that
the child agreed should be shown to parents
 The second can come from the lens of the child consultant’s knowledge and
experience of working with children generally and particularly from an
understanding of child development, attachment and the impact of changes in
the family system on children. In a sense, it is feedback with respect to the

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