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Trauma and Recovery
A training programme

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Children’s experiences in early life have lasting effects on the way they think, feel, perceive and respond to the world and to other people. Children who have suffered neglect, rejection or abuse often behave in ways that seem inexplicable to other people. Overwhelming stress damages their developing brain and affects their development in countless ways. Trauma shapes their personality. Without help to recover they can remain haunted by their experiences for many years, perhaps even a lifetime.

Understanding the effects of stress and trauma gives foster carers and adoptive parents insight into why troubled children behave as they do. It helps them to interpret children’s words and actions in a different light; it also enables them to help children understand why they feel and behave as they do.

Trauma and recovery is a flexible training course that has been designed to help social workers, staff in residential homes, foster carers and adoptive parents to understand more about the needs of traumatised children, and provides a level of detail that is not possible to include in a general preparation course. It explains how carers can help children to adapt to the developmental impairments they have suffered, build resilience in a traumatised child and provide an environment that will enhance healing.

The programme consists of three courses which are separate but inter-linked:

• Trauma
• Resilience, and
• Healing environments

The material covered includes:

• Attachment and the development of self-regulation;
• Helping children to recover from and adapt to acquired impairments;
• Understanding resilience after trauma;
• Building on strengths in the child and the social network;
• What is a healing environment?;
• Planning the healing environment.

The training pack is comprised of a book and a CD ROM. The CD ROM contains a PowerPoint presentation for each of the three courses as well as a set of handouts which can be photocopied and distributed. The book includes the presentations as well as supplementary material, suggested training exercises and a range of questions to encourage discussion and debate.