WHY THIS COURSE FOR YOU, YOUR SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY?
Course Director: Eminent Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist: Dr Margot Sunderland (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Sunderland)
This practical skills based training course, underpinned by over 1000 evidence-based psychological, medical and neuroscientific research studies, is designed to inform and empower delegates to respond effectively to vulnerable and challenging children and those who have suffered a trauma or have a mental health issue. Without such interventions, painful life experiences are likely to persist through challenging behaviour, blocks to learning and life long physical and mental health problems
The training provides delegates with vital tools and techniques in knowing how to be in relationship with troubled children and respond effectively to challenging or distressing behaviour in terms of what to say and how to be. Research shows that just one such emotionally available adult before the age 18 is enough to prevent years of suffering (personal and societal) and the medicalising of distress with psychiatric labels and medication.
Delegates will also be trained to know when to seek the support of psychologist-led supervision, and when, due to limits of competence, to refer on.
The course not only focuses on work with individual children but also on changing whole school cultures to be mentally healthy for all. So the course covers interventions designed specifically to address teacher stress, teacher absence and poor staff retention.
So if you want to change troubled children’s lives, reduce exclusions, improve pupil attendance and staff retention, while positively impacting on the mental health of the school culture as a whole, then this certificated training is a must.
Benefits from Attending the Course
- Gain a prestigious award in working as a mental health and wellbeing practitioner for schools and communities
- Learn to relate to children and young people in ways that alleviate their suffering, support their learning and make them feel cared for and appreciated
- Know how to respond to children who are in distress/ stress states in ways that help them to emotionally regulate, feel psychologically safe and deeply valued for who they are
- Know how to listen and empathise when children want to talk about painful issues and help them reflect and resolve
- Develop an in-depth understanding of what it’s like for a child or teenager to suffer from specific mental health problems (e.g. depression/ anxiety and feel confident in offering them accurate empathy, understanding and key psycho-education.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the long-term impact of specific adverse childhood experiences and how to enable the child or teenager to work through feelings of anger and traumatic loss.
- Learn how to increase the protective factors and ‘safety cues’ in the school culture as a whole, to benefit all, adults as well as children.
- Enable other staff to think psychologically about pupils in terms of what has happened to them rather than simply addressing behaviour.
- Support staff in ways that prevent them suffering from high levels of stress, developing secondary trauma and leaving the profession as a result.
- Know limits of competence and when to refer on to other agencies
Courses Open for Application
IATE 11/13 Day Diploma Blended Learning *Open for Applications* |
National 11 Day Online Diploma *Open for Applications* |
24th & 25th Sept 2022 Face to Face | 31st Oct & 1st Nov 2022 |
22nd & 23rd Oct 2022 Face to Face | 29th & 30th Nov 2022 |
26th & 27th Nov 2022 Online | 9th & 10th Jan 2023 |
7th & 8th Jan 2023 Face to Face | 6th & 7th Feb 2023 |
4th & 5th Feb 2023 Online | 6th & 7th March 2023 |
18th Feb 2023 Online | 3rd April 2023 |
18th & 19th March 2023 Face to Face | National Diploma Oct 2022 |
To apply contact:
info@traumainformedschools.co.uk
Current Courses
London 10/12 Day Diploma London IATE Blended Learning University Validated Route |
National 11 Day Online Diploma *Full* |
National 11 Day Online Diploma *FULL* |
16th & 17th Oct 2021 Face to Face | 1st & 2nd Nov 2021 | 25th & 26th April 2022 |
20th & 21st Nov 2021 Face to Face | 1st & 2nd Dec 2021 | 23rd & 24th May 2022 |
11th &12th Dec 2021 Online | 24th & 25th Jan 2022 | 20th & 21st June 2022 |
15th & 16th Jan 2022 Face to Face | 28th Feb & 1st March 2022 | 18th & 19th July 2022 |
12th & 13th Feb 2022 Online | 28th & 29th March 2022 | 19th & 20th Sept 2022 |
12th & 13th March 2022 Face to Face (uni route only) | 3rd May 2022 | 17th Oct 2022 |
April 2022 Diploma |
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