Trauma Informed Practice

Course Welcome – What do we mean by Trauma Informed Practice?

Child Development, with a new name…

Making relational behaviour management work in schools

“We need to invite a child to join us in our calm, rather than us joining them in their chaos”

Building trauma informed approaches into your curriculum

Embedding the nurture principles with primary children

Big people helping little people – creating a whole-school ethos around empathy and kindness

Understanding and recognising distress – “they’re not challenging us, they’re asking us for help”

Just the way we do things – creating an emotionally healthier way to learn

Adopting a nurturing approach in the secondary sector

Bringing it all together

Your Feedback and Thoughts

Course Welcome – What do we mean by Trauma Informed Practice?

Trauma Informed Practice Course Welcome – What do we mean by Trauma Informed Practice?

Welcome to our course on Trauma Informed Practice. In the first of our video discussions, David Cameron speaks with Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, a Research Scientist and Developmental Psychologist. David begins by asking – what is trauma informed practice? And, more importantly, what impact can this approach have on schools and the children and young people they nurture?

What do we mean by Trauma Informed Practice? (12:52)

Trauma, attachment and the science of connection
The power of curiosity and courage – thinking differently, changing cultures
High impact, low cost – no external approval needed!
How it works in practice – case studies from primary schools

NOTE: Working with David Cameron, we have put together a companion guide for each class across the course. The guide features a range of questions which will hopefully help you reflect on each discussion; the key themes being covered and how they can relate – or be applied – to your current practice. The guide for this video class can be downloaded via the ‘Materials’ tab at the top of the page.

Throughout the conversation, Dr Zeedyk talks about the Science of Connection and its impact on children and young people’s development. With help from our colleagues at Connected Baby we have created a short quiz below for you to test your understanding around the Science of Connection. If you’d like more information on this please do visit the Connected Baby website – https://connectedbaby.net/

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The science of connection underlines the importance of strong adult-child and peer-to-peer relationships. By seeking to understand and respond to the feelings and needs of children and young people – not just reacting to their behaviours and actions – professionals can create a stable environment within which they feel safe and valued.

If you wish, you can review your answers via the ‘view questions’ button below.

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1. Question
Trauma, attachment and the science of connection.

Let’s test your understanding…which of the following statements are true?
- Babies can smile at you as soon as they are born
- Babies are born eager to take part in conversations
- When babies & adults play together, their brains ‘sync up’, showing coordinated patterns of neural activity
- Babies love a good build up to the punchline of a joke
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At what age can babies tell when parents are about to pick them up, adjusting their bodies to help with this activity?
- From 2 months
- From 4 months
- From 6 months
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3. Question
“Play with peers does not shape a child’s brain development”.

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4. Question
“Feeling warmly included at school helps children who live with punitive parents”.

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5. Question
“Children who experience toxic levels of stress, especially in the absence of an adult to buffer that stress, are at greater risk of poor adult health problems”.

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6. Question
“Changes in teenage behaviour that used to be put down to hormones are probably more accurately attributed to a new phase of brain development”.

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7. Question
“All this focus on adolescent mental health. Unnecessary – teenagers just need to toughen up!”

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8. Question
“The quality of your relationships in adolescence provides clues as to what your later relationships may look like”.

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Having discussed what we mean by Trauma Informed Practice, in the next class David and Suzanne explore the power of curiosity and the importance of responding to the feelings and emotional needs of children and young people, rather than just their behaviours and actions. And Suzanne offers some practical examples of this working in secondary schools across Scotland, complementing the primary sector case studies featured in this class.

Companion Guide for Download - What do we mean by Trauma Informed Practice - Companion Guide

Suzanne has recommended a number of extra resources below, which compliment some of the themes discussed in this video class...

Sabre Tooth Tigers and Teddy Bears: The connected baby guide to attachment
https://connectedbaby.net/product/sabre-tooth-tigers-teddy-bears-2/

Documentary Film: the connected baby
https://connectedbaby.net/product/the-connected-baby-film/

Training films for Early Years: Reunions and Partings
https://connectedbaby.net/product/tigers-teddies-nursery-series-parting-reunions/

Short films: Dances of connection
https://connectedbaby.net/product/training-films-with-suzanne-zeedyk/

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