Akamas
Experience Learning
HEALING ENVIRONMENTS: HELPING CHILDREN TO RECOVER FROM TRAUMA
This course explores healing environments and the planning and changes required to establish them.
Content and Structure
Session one: What is a healing environment?
- The impact of sensory information on the process of healing
- Making sense of the environment: a guided tour
- What do children need in order to recover from trauma?
- Soothing and stimulation: making spaces that work for traumatised children
- Using a trauma model to analyse the needs of a child
- What are the milieux that have an impact on this child?
- Who should be included in planning the healing environment?
- What specific changes would improve the healing properties of the environment for this child?
- Implications for practice
- Evaluation
Learning Outcomes
This course will enable you:
- To understand the links between the physical environment and healing
- To recognise the characteristics of a healing environment
- To use a trauma model to analyse the needs of a traumatised child
- To think about strategies for promoting healing environments in the milieux that surround a traumatised child
Key Features
The price includes provision of training packs consisting of:
- Course outlines
- Handouts
- Evaluation sheets
- Attendance certificates
Booking Information
If you have any questions or would like to request details by post, please complete our Enquiry Form or call 01453 541860.
"Akamas has delivered training in a professional manner which has been well planned and positively received by staff. I would be happy to recommend their training to other organisations."
Pritpal Sodhi - Training and Development Manager (Fostering and Adoption), Kent County Council
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