Trauma-Informed Care (with Acceptance from PACE)(3/5) (Zoom)

Acceptance is a critical component in building a therapeutic relationship with children and young people who have experienced trauma. It demonstrates your ability to connect with their feelings and emotions without judgment. Your positive regard for a child must be unconditional, irrespective of their behaviour. Acceptance means acknowledging the thoughts, feelings, experiences, and memories linked to a particular behaviour, even when you do not agree with that behaviour.

This model is your key to unlocking the power of trauma-informed care. It will provide you with a clear understanding of trauma's impact on children and adolescents, equipping you with the essential practices to effect meaningful change. Embracing trauma-informed care is not optional; it is imperative when supporting children and young people who have faced neglect, rejection, or abuse.

Engage with psychological theories and research to deepen your understanding. Without proper support, these individuals are at risk of experiencing significant neurological, developmental, and psychological challenges, even within a secure and nurturing environment.

Throughout this course, you will acquire practical resources and strategies to enhance your therapeutic engagement. We will also provide you with recording methods that will effectively demonstrate your work to Ofsted and other partner agencies.

Ensure that you have completed the PACE Mindsent course beforehand.

Key components of the training:

1. Understanding the national profile of trauma.
2. Understand the workings of the Secure Base and Safe Haven model and how that is key when working with attachment challenges.
3. Be able to identify critical biological and psychosocial implications of experiencing trauma.
4. Explore shame and guilt and how we work with each state.
5. Understand the roots of negative behaviours in young people and how this should be seen as communication.
6. Understanding the impact of childhood trauma on the body and the brain.
7. Consider how trauma and our response to adrenaline will change our personalities.
8. Understanding how the brain and body adapt to cope (Dissociation and hyper-vigilance), what each state looks like, and why it occurs.
9. Understanding the window of tolerance model and how to support children to widen their window so they can engage in the therapeutic process.
10. Consider how we can plan to rebuild resilience.
11. Understand the importance of the "window" and that the child is prevented from participating in the therapeutic process if it remains limited.
12. Explore methods to co-regulate with the young person, leading to self-regulation.
13. Explore bodywork, resilience and mindfulness to empower children and support them in finding methods to move forward effectively out of trauma.
14. Identify evidence-based tools and techniques to support this journey.

Suitable for:

Our PACE suite is suitable for a wide range of individuals. We recommend a yearly refresher to ensure that practices stay fresh and to help prevent the worker from reverting to the style of parenting they experienced:

• Social Workers: Case managers, child welfare workers, and community organisers.
• Caregivers: Residential workers, care home staff, Foster carers, adoptive parents, and kinship caregivers.
• Mental Health Professionals: Therapists, counselors & social workers.
• Educators: Also see "PACE for Schools" - Teachers, school counselors, and special education professionals.
• Birth Parents: Use "PACE for Parents" instead. This is workforce development training. Some content may be triggering, and it will not be appropriate to address specific individual examples or development needs in front of the group.

Testimonials:

You can see what others are saying about our training HERE.

Those seeking to be certified in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) or to further explore PACE in action are invited to visit the founder's website.

Format: This is a live training session through "Zoom". It includes taught sections, small group work, work in pairs, and whole group discussions.

Hand-outs & Certificates: Downloadable resource library and certificates of attendance are provided.