Who? Safeguarding leads, team managers, social workers, people with safeguarding decision-making responsibilities and frontline practitioners.

Why? To improve relationship-based practice and embed trauma-informed approaches to safeguarding.

What? Learning objectives:

To understand the meaning of psychological trauma and the biological impacts
To explore how traumatic experiences can affect identity, world view and behaviour
To examine how, even violent behaviour, can be an expression of trauma and understood as communication
To understand the relationship between trauma and safeguarding practice
To develop confidence to support and respond to traumatised children and their families
To reflect upon personal and professional impact of trauma-informed practice and the importance of wellbeing

How? A one-day training delivered by an independent trainer. Please note this course is in-person only and hosted at the Psychosynthesis Trust, 92-94 Tooley St, London SE1 2TH.

https://psychosynthesistrust.org.uk

Understanding Trauma: Behaviour as a Communication Mechanism (Level 3)