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Creating positive social climates and home-like environments in therapeutic care – Practice guide
This guide explores how to create therapeutic care contexts based on considerations about the notion of ‘home’, key features of the physical environment and the core aspects of the social climate which are critical to establishing a home-like environment and a sense of normality for young people in care.
Fight, flight, freeze, and fibbing: Lying as a trauma-based behaviour
In regular foster and kinship carers sessions I run, someone tells a story about a child or young person in their care who regularly lies. In this blog we run through reasons why children lie and tips on how to address lying.
How to thrive in lock down, lean into what works in therapeutic care
Lockdown means we lose touch with many things: friends, family, freedom. For young people, therapeutic youth workers and other staff in Intensive Therapeutic Care, however, it also offers an opportunity to lean into what we know works in therapeutic care. As we know, you care for an incredibly vulnerable group of young people who experience …
Living with the Fast and the Furious
The brain is preoccupied with our safety. However, being safe doesn’t equal feeling safe. Have you ever said to yourself, “I know it’s true, but it doesn’t feel true”? The thinking brain (the upper part of the brain) can “know” it is safe, while the emotional brain (the lower part of the brain) doesn’t feel safe. Children need to experience felt safety to recover from traumatic events and adverse histories.
Reflective practice: enhancing practice in therapeutic care – Practice guide
A guide to Enhancing Practice in Therapeutic Care