Helping children who have suffered trauma and adversity.
What should "trauma informed practice" mean?
What should "trauma informed practice" mean?
The child care revolution.
In the last 20 years there has been a revolution in our knowledge of the effects of developmental trauma. We now know far more about why children who have suffered abuse or neglect behave as they do. We now know why our instinctive reactions to misbehaviour from these children - raising our voices, reprimanding and punishing - can make problems worse, not better. And we now know more about what these children need and the therapeutic techniques - building relationships, listening, making emotional connections and responding with compassion - that can help. The new understanding is so radical that the time before the revolution has been called, the "barbarian" age.
Unfortunately, many people, even professionals, even some experts, even some who provide training for foster carers, adopters, teachers and children’s home staff, don't know about the revolution. With the best of intentions they still use barbarian age ideas and techniques. This often results in children continuing to suffer and moving through a series of failed residential and family placements.
The training we offer is based on the research and curriculum development at the Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University, New York. It also draws on the work of experts in this field: Bessel van der Kolk, Daniel Hughes, Kim Golding, Amber Elliot, Ross Green, Martin Teicher and others. It makes the child care revolution accessable and understandable. It explains how developmental trauma can lead to adaptations in a child's brain that effect thinking, feeling and behaviour. It makes sense of behaviours like defiance, emotional outbursts, aggression, self injury and alcohol and drug abuse. And it teaches adults how to respond.
We teach separate programmes for:
In the last 20 years there has been a revolution in our knowledge of the effects of developmental trauma. We now know far more about why children who have suffered abuse or neglect behave as they do. We now know why our instinctive reactions to misbehaviour from these children - raising our voices, reprimanding and punishing - can make problems worse, not better. And we now know more about what these children need and the therapeutic techniques - building relationships, listening, making emotional connections and responding with compassion - that can help. The new understanding is so radical that the time before the revolution has been called, the "barbarian" age.
Unfortunately, many people, even professionals, even some experts, even some who provide training for foster carers, adopters, teachers and children’s home staff, don't know about the revolution. With the best of intentions they still use barbarian age ideas and techniques. This often results in children continuing to suffer and moving through a series of failed residential and family placements.
The training we offer is based on the research and curriculum development at the Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University, New York. It also draws on the work of experts in this field: Bessel van der Kolk, Daniel Hughes, Kim Golding, Amber Elliot, Ross Green, Martin Teicher and others. It makes the child care revolution accessable and understandable. It explains how developmental trauma can lead to adaptations in a child's brain that effect thinking, feeling and behaviour. It makes sense of behaviours like defiance, emotional outbursts, aggression, self injury and alcohol and drug abuse. And it teaches adults how to respond.
We teach separate programmes for:
- Foster carers, adopters and social workers and mangers who support these families: The TCIF programme developed at Cornell University, or the TCIF Plus programme that includes additional information and therapeutic skills.
- Children's home staff and managers: The TCI programme developed at Cornell University or the TCI Plus programme that includes additional information and therapeutic skills.
- Understanding, preventing and responding to self injury
