Guest Speaker: Trauma, Attachment & SEND: When Needs Overlap - Building Trust and Reducing Distress
At a glance
Guest speaker
Dr Kirstie Rees
Webinar duration
2 hours
Suitable for
Thrive Licensed Practitioners
CPD
Worth 5 CPD points
Price per place
£78 excl. VAT
Course outcomes
By the end of this 2-hour session, you'll have:
- A deeper understanding of the impact of adverse attachment experiences and trauma on a child’s development and behaviours.
- Practical assessment tools to help to discern whether a child’s behaviours are a result of trauma, or SEN, or both.
- Increased confidence in identifying and responding to individual children’s needs.
- A range of practical, classroom-ready strategies that promote safety and regulation.
- Approaches for building trust and relationships with pupils who experience distress.
Who is it for?
This session is suitable for Thrive Licensed Practitioners working in early years, primary and secondary settings.
Introducing guest speaker: Dr Kirstie Rees
Dr Kirstie Rees is a specialised educational and child psychologist, with extensive experience and research in the areas of learning disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health.
She has written a number of articles for different publications and is author of the book: ‘The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People with Learning Difficulties: A Guide for Educators’.
Kirstie provides training, consultation and support to a number of organisations and carries out therapeutic work with individual children and their families. She has also worked as a tutor on the MSC in Educational Psychology at the University of Dundee and chairs the Scottish branch of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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What you'll learn
The aims and objectives of the session include:
- Develop a deeper understanding of how trauma, disrupted attachment experiences, and SEND can impact a child’s emotional, social, and behavioural development.
- Explore the overlap and distinctions between trauma-related behaviours and those associated with SEND.
- Gain confidence in considering whether a child’s presentation may be related to trauma, SEND, or a combination of both.
- Strengthen the ability to assess individual pupil needs through a relational and trauma-informed lens.
- Explore the role of relationships, routines and adult responses in supporting regulation.
- Build confidence in responding to children’s behaviours with understanding and compassion.