Health and Wellbeing
Taking a Whole School Trauma Informed Approach
See biting, bolting, freezing and people-pleasing as trauma responses, and learn to calm a child in distress rather than escalate things.
- 49 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise fight, flight, freeze and fawn responses in children's behaviour
- Regulate your own breathing and body before approaching a distressed child
- Use the regulate, relate, model plan with a dysregulated child
- Adjust your approach to the trauma response a child is showing
- Judge when reward systems help and when they make things worse
About this course
The child who lashes out gets noticed. The one who says yes to everything, never puts a foot wrong and is biting her nails at night often doesn't. Both can be showing a trauma response.
Regulate, relate, model is a three-point plan every adult in school can share, so a child gets the same steady response wherever they are. Steady your own breathing before you walk in, use fewer words, offer a way out instead of an ultimatum, and be honest about how you feel. Picture the amygdala as a bouncer called Dave, turning things away before the child can think, and it all makes sense.
You'll be able to adjust your approach for fight, flight, freeze or fawn, and you'll know why a reward chart can backfire for a child in trauma. The ideas come from a play therapist and the clinical director of a children's therapy service.
- For early career teachers, governors and 5 other roles. All phases.
Recording
- 49 min
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