Category Archives: LAC interventions healing
How survival strategies can be misinterpreted
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about how behaviours in school can be misunderstood, its so important that we try and understand the feelings behind the behaviour, rather than making our own judgements and interpretations Hyper-vigilance = being nosy … Continue reading
Posted in adoption, Behaviour, emotional wellbeing, foster/adoption, fostering, LAC interventions healing, Relationships
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Natural curiosity or hyper vigilance?
As part of my role in one school i just work with staff and parents and often go in to classes to observe children. I arrange this with the teacher beforehand and ask them to identify children for me to … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Behaviour, emotional wellbeing, fear, Helping, LAC interventions healing, primary school, self regulation, staff, Stress, trauma
Tagged anxiety, behaviour strategies
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The importance of Building relationships
It is worthwhile exploring what opportunities exist in school to build relationships between staff and children and how these can be increased. For some children, the experience of spending individual time with a member of school staff may seem terrifying. … Continue reading
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Developing positive early relational experiences
In order for children to be able to build relationships with other people it is necessary for them to have a template of how to do this. A child’s first relationship is with their main caregiver and this is usually … Continue reading
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The power of nurturing play in school
I am just coming to the end of a piece of work i have been doing in schools with LAC (looked after children) children involving 1-1 weekly nurturing play sessions for 40 minutes for 10 weeks. This has been an … Continue reading
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