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Childhood Trauma and Attachment Training

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The Course

Our online Childhood Trauma and Attachment Training is designed to introduce carers to important childhood trauma theory. It is made up of four models.  Each session looks at a different important topic that will teach them about the brain, behaviour and development of the children they care for. These modules are designed to support carers in beginning to adopt a trauma-informed approach. This programme is full of ideas, strategies and advice that carers can take away and begin to implement straight away. With a therapeutic approach at its core, this is an essential course for anyone caring for vulnerable children and young people.

Who is it for?

  • Foster Care Agencies
  • Adoption Agencies
  • Supported Accommodation Service Providers
  • Residential Children Home Service Providers
  • Individuals working with children in care

Course Modules

Childhood trauma and the brain_care
Learn about childhood trauma and how it impacts a developing brain. Find out what happens when children are stressed or overwhelmed. Why they have meltdowns and what the impact is on their behaviour and internal processing. Most importantly, learn what can you do to help. Underpinned by therapeutic approaches and full of advice and free resources. This session is essential for anyone working with vulnerable children and young people.
Attachment Disorder
Learn about attachment disorder and how it impacts a child or young person.  Find out how to identify attachment disorder and how it may impact the behaviour and thinking of those you care for. Learn to support them by ensuring you are not triggering attachment style behaviours that remind them of their trauma. Full of practical strategies and advice about what does and doesn’t work in the home and at school.
Therapeutic Response skills
Learn about how to develop therapeutic response skills with the children in your care. Find out how to adapt your responses to behavioural incidents and emotional outbursts to focus on connection and care. The lessons in this module will begin to embed a therapeutic approach and help guide everyone working with the children toward an approach that puts mental health and wellbeing first. A very popular session which will change perceptions and offer a lot of ‘ah-ha’ moments.
Learn about the importance of boundaries and consistency when working with vulnerable children. Find out how to approach behavioural incidents whilst still maintaining a therapeutic approach based on connection. With specific approaches and advice for you to begin to implement in your school. This session guides you toward alternative methods to time out and detention whilst still maintaining the boundaries many vulnerable children desperately need.
What's Included:​
The course is accessed through our online training platform which means carers can do the sessions at their own pace in their own time. They can also go back and re-listen to content whenever they want.
How Is It Delivered?​
The course is accessed through our online training platform which means carers can do the sessions at their own pace in their own time. They can also go back and re-listen to content whenever they want.
Purchase Options
Individual cost – £250 per person
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Whole agency costs are available for larger agencies with over 20 carers. You may want to consider the support hub package which includes these course modules
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Additional Workshops​

We know how valuable it is for foster carers to be able to come together to discuss practice. It brings the course modules to life and helps them further apply theory to the day to day interactions with the children. Our workshops encourage carers to reflect on the course modules and to have an opportunity to talk about their own experiences with a childhood trauma expert.

Sessions are engaging, interesting, and inspiring and will leave carers with insight, strategies, and a sense of empowerment.

Purchase Options

Zoom workshops are £200 per session for 1.5 hours or £250 for 2 hours
Face to face workshops are £250 per 1.5-hour session or £300 for 2 hours
Face to face workshops are subject to availability and location. Workshop length can be discussed on an individual need basis

What people say about us

"Brilliant course lead by an experienced trainer who shared excellent advice and guidance and made the course so interesting and thought-provoking!"
Supervising Social Worker
Supervising Social Worker
"It was so interesting, I wish I knew this stuff ages ago! I learnt a lot about my children but also about myself!"
Foster Carer
Foster Carer
I have found the information from the training interesting and it has certainly given me lots to think about to use in practice. I also like the handouts/resources which can be printed and taken to my supervision with foster carers. This is very helpful. Thanks again 🙂
Supervising Social Worker
Supervising Social Worker
The practical advice and experience enabled me to manage the issue and provide the necessary support and coping strategies and insight into parenting and caring for children in trauma.
Foster Carer
Foster Carer
I took on board many suggestions from creating themed bath times, encouraging self-care, rewording my instructions to engage the child and help them to feel heard and supported. These little subtle changes had a great impact!
Foster Carer
Foster Carer
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