Peer reflection guides
Explore peer reflection guides that aim to support you to facilitate learning sessions using Research in Practice resources.
Our peer reflection guides aim to support you to facilitate learning and reflection sessions using Research in Practice resources.
The guides explore a range of popular topics, signposting to supporting resources, facilitator notes and reflective questions to discuss as a group.
Reflecting as a group allows for sharing of different perspectives, consideration of assumptions and biases, can provide emotional containment and promote team cohesiveness. Using open, exploratory questions helps reflection on practice, supporting socially constructed learning via sharing of knowledge and experiences.
Children and families peer reflection guides
The following guides aim to support learning and reflection sessions for professionals who work with children, young people and families.
It is important for social workers and family support practitioners to have a good understanding of child development.
This guide aims support conversations on child development and the different integral and/or external factors that can impact this.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are topics that that touch all of us in a profound way and demand sensitive discussion along with deep reflection.
This resource is designed to support the start of these conversations in the context of children's social care.
Relationships are the means through which we work collaboratively with individuals and families to establish a shared understanding of what needs to be done, and by whom, so that concerns about a child’s wellbeing can be resolved.
This guide aims to support learning and reflection about relationship-based practice with children and families.
Child abuse, neglect and trauma have profound, long-lasting and far-reaching effects across the lifespan.
This resource is designed to facilitate conversations about trauma-informed approaches with children and families.
Adults peer reflection guides
The following guides aim to support learning and reflection sessions for professionals who work with adults.
An integral part of social care practice is protection and promotion of the rights of the people we support. Central to this is ensuring that people of all ages, with all of their diverse characteristics, have equality of opportunity and are not excluded or discriminated against.
This resource is designed to support conversations about equity, diversity and inclusion in the context of working with adults.
The Care Act 2014 highlights the importance of effective working relationships between health and social care professionals and the people they supports. This can help ensure a person-centred approach and effective participation and co-production.
This guide aims to support learning and reflection about relationship-based practice with adults.
Strengths-based working focuses on people’s strengths, including their knowledge, skills and capabilities. This approach makes it possible to enable and empower individuals.
This guide aims support conversations on developing and embedding strengths-based practice.
We are all impacted by our past experiences, which can have a lasting effect on the way we view and experience the world. Recognition of past experiences can play a critical role in supporting in safety and wellbeing.
This resource is designed to facilitate conversations about trauma-informed approaches with adults