OUR MODEL
Our Model
Current research shows the positive impact a trauma informed approach has on the outcomes of children and young people that have experienced developmental trauma and adverse childhood experiences
SCS has been committed from its inception to being a trauma informed organisation and the TRM underpins this process. This ensures that the staff team have a framework and evidence base to guide and shape their practice that is truly designed to best support the children and young people in our homes.
What
Is TRM?
The Trauma Recovery Model is a road map to help professionals care for and guide troubled people towards recovery. It's a composite model; combing theories of child development, attachment and neuroscience with hands-on practitioner skills.
It provides practical guidelines for knowing which interventions to use and when. This means our team understands the psychological needs that underpin behaviours and can identify the types of interventions that best address those needs.
Working in the TRM way puts relationship building and therapeutic interaction first, mediating the impact of trauma. This paves the way for interventions that are tailored and sequenced in a way that really can make a difference.
Clinical
Psychology
SCS has been committed from its inception to being a trauma informed organisation and the TRM underpins this process. This ensures that the staff team have a framework and evidence base to guide a
- The Home has an on-site Clinical Psychologist Dr Anna Cutress, Anna’s specialism is working with Children in Care.
Anna has thirteen years’ experience working in NHS mental health services with children and young people. Since 2019 Anna has been the Clinical Lead for Looked After Children within a child and adolescent mental health service in the NHS and uses attachment/trauma informed approaches in her work with young people and professionals. Anna uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural and Compassion Focussed approaches. Anna has experience working with children in residential care and the team around them. Anna has extensive experience working with traumatised children and providing psychological assessments, formulations, reports and therapeutic interventions. Anna can provide PACE training to the team, she can provide external support with regards to referrals and assessments that may be outstanding. Anna can undertake Trauma Therapy work and she also provides advice and guidance to the team.
nd shape their practice that is truly designed to best support the children and young people in our homes.
