DDP Level One Training Course
DDP Level One training introduces the DDP model, the core components of DDP, and explores working with parents and caregivers and in different workplace environments.
About DDP
DDP is a therapeutic intervention model developed by Dr. Dan Hughes, Clinical Psychologist and celebrated author from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Dan created DDP as a treatment for families with adopted or fostered children who had experienced early life trauma. It is family-based and focused on facilitating the child’s readiness and ability to establish a secure attachment with their caregivers.
It is an approach that:
- Integrates recent research in neurobiology of trauma, early child development and attachment theory, to produce a therapeutic and parenting approach that assists professionals to understand and effectively support children with trauma- attachment problems, and their families
- Communicates playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy (PACE) in order to help the child regulate their feelings (often fear, shame and anger) associated with past experiences and to create together new meanings to be integrated into the child’s life story (autobiographical narrative).
- Recognises the vital role which adoptive parents, foster carers and residential workers play in the recovery of traumatised, attachment-resistant children.
Training Dates - 9.30am - 4.30pm
Day 1 – 17th November 2025
Day 2 – 18th November 2025
Day 3 – 19th November 2025
Day 4 – 20th November 2025
Who is it for?
DDP Level One is open to anyone with experience working with, or looking after, children with developmental trauma that show attachment and relationship difficulties with their primary caregivers.
This includes:
- Professionals such as therapists, social workers, educators, residential carers etc.
- Adoptive parents, foster parents, kinship carers, or caregivers, such as in residential homes.
All traning days are 9.30am - 4.30pm and include lunch.
