Principles of Trauma Informed Practice

There are 6 main principles of trauma informed practice. How can we apply these to schools? Safety How we make our young people feel safe is a very unique challenge for schools. Understanding a young person and their frame of reference is the first step in trauma informed practice. To understand a young person is

By |2025-03-26T22:28:47+00:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |0 Comments

Consequences and Boundaries with SEMH needs

One of the biggest areas of misunderstanding when working with children who have SEMH needs or have experienced trauma is around the topic of boundaries and consequences. To be clear - all children require safe boundaries and there are consequences for all actions. I am using the term consequences here in place of punishment quite

By |2024-08-14T13:06:40+00:00August 14th, 2024|Categories: SEMH|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Guide to writing a Child Informed Plan

Whether it is trauma informed, attachment aware, child centred etc etc professionals working with young people strive to understand and address individual needs a young person has. Often the terminology can create difficulties - for example saying trauma informed makes some feel they are making a diagnosis. For this reason I want to lay out

By |2023-05-28T12:31:15+00:00May 28th, 2023|Categories: SEMH|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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