Trauma Informed Approaches

Join educational psychologist, James McTaggart, for a series of online sessions on Trauma Informed Approaches. You are welcome to participate in one or all sessions, taking place online, 5.30-7.30pm, on Tuesdays 24th November, 1st and 8th December, and 19th January.

Session 1: Trauma-informed education

This session covers the core content of the national framework, adapted and expanded to educational contexts, including:

Prevalence and impacts of psychological trauma
What traumatic memories are, how and why they form
How this looks in school for different age groups
Impacts on learning, behaviour and wellbeing
What schools and teachers can and can’t do
Recognising and responding to triggers and avoidances
What children need after a recent event (critical incidents)
Whole school considerations – policies and staff wellbeing

Session 2: Developmental trauma and adverse childhood experiences

Content includes:

- The range of developmental impacts of early trauma including:

Emotional regulation
Sense of self
Executive function, memory and attention
Language and communication
Behavioural inhibition
Social cognition and relationships

- How these look at different ages in educational settings for learning and behaviour.

- What educators can to:

promote positive development and recovery
adapt learning and environment for a range of needs

Session 3: Working in a traumatised system

The session draws on research on secondary trauma to explore:

The impact on staff when needs rise faster than resources
What is “compassion fatigue” and how does it affect individuals and organisations?
What we can, and can’t, do to fix the systems around us
Working and living well in a context that makes this difficult

Session 4: Learners’ choice

This session will be generated by the interests of participants of the first three sessions.

Please book your place on the series to be able to attend any or all of the sessions by completing this booking form.