Chapter Overviews
Our Ethos
A statement of how we understand children’s behaviour as a trauma response, and how we respond to it.
Secure Base
- The importance of a secure base
- Understanding children’s behaviour
- Creating a secure base
Training and Support for Foster Families
- A network approach
- PRICE training
- Therapeutic Pathway training
Understanding behaviour
- The effects of trauma on behaviour
- The ABC approach to understanding behaviour
Sanctions
- The principles of applying a sanction
- Approved sanctions
- Non-approved sanctions that must not be used
Physical Intervention
- The principles of positive physical contact to comfort, reassure and calm a child
- Rules and procedures for any use of physical intervention to safeguard a child or others
