So, what makes you therapeutic?
Led by the renowned Clair Davies MBE this two-day course will help you to articulate, embed and evidence your therapeutic approach. It will enable you and your team to show how you work therapeutically. Good children’s homes work therapeutically every day but it is difficult to be sure all your team members can explain how they do it.
This 2-day course is best delivered as whole-staff training to reflect a sound and consistent approach for your young people. For homes looking to further develop their practice the course leads into our more in-depth 10-day trauma informed programme.
You will be introduced to the principles which underpin your practice – the six Bs – Be safe, Belong, Bond, Build, Believe, Be all you can be. The training draws on the evidence of what works best for traumatised children and contains elements of psychoanalysis, transactional analysis, person centred theory (PACE) and humanistic psychology BUT the emphasis is on how the understanding of these theories impacts and improves direct, daily work with children and that this can be evidenced. You will be taught how to use Reflective Journals to embed and record your therapeutic practice. At the end of the course, you can be sure that you are doing the best therapeutic work for your children and can prove this to families, social workers, Ofsted and all of your stakeholders.
This 2-day course is best delivered as whole-staff training to reflect a sound and consistent approach for your young people. The cost of the two-day programme is £2,195+vat, inclusive of expenses, to be delivered at your own venue. For homes looking to further develop their practice the course leads into our more in-depth 10-day trauma informed programme.
Get in touch with us below to discuss the opportunity of booking this two-day training course at your own venue.
the trainer
Clair Davies has spent the last thirty years working with children who have been traumatised by abuse and neglect. She graduated from Cambridge University in 1989. She subsequently studied for her Masters in Special Education and spent a period researching in America before returning to England and setting up Appletree in 1995. She developed Appletree Treatment Centre Homes and Schools providing high quality therapeutic care, education and therapy. She was a member of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Topic Expert Group which wrote the Standards for the Emotional Health and Well Being of Looked After Children in 2015. She was Chair of the Apprenticeship Trailblazer which wrote the Level 4 and 5 qualifications for those working with Children, Young People and Families. In June 2020 she was awarded an MBE for her work with Apprenticeships and Traumatised Children.
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