Trauma-Focused Sensory Integration Programme

This is an online programme designed for parents and caregivers of adopted children, and is a direct result of the work we have been doing over the last five years.

The programme addresses the difficulties experienced when foundational sensory and motor systems are not working well. This is a typical finding in children who have experienced early life trauma, including neglect or abuse in infancy, but is also valuable for all children as there can be gaps in these areas of development related to modern lifestyles, such as spending too much time in a car seat or other type of infant container.

You will be provided with background knowledge and guided through how to use a variety of motor and sensory tools to bring an experience of body-based felt safety. You will also learn how to track your child’s responses and be given advice on how to adapt the tools where needed

The sessions are intended to be relational and relaxed in their approach. We are aware some of the subject matter can be challenging and touches on early life trauma, and we therefore focus on the repair and recovery, and maintain a stance that trauma is something that can be overcome with the right knowledge support and interventions.

Session Outline

• What each online session will include and a sense of the format.
• The background information, theory evidence and case study information.
• How to assimilate the knowledge into everyday life.
• Tools for this week – what they target and how to use them.
• The application, the parent perspective, and what it’s like to use the tools.
• Regular examples/anecdotes from a parent expert on how these tools have been used.
• Break out rooms followed by questions for last 30 minutes of the session.

Programme Content

• Session 1: Early life trauma and Sensory Integration- what’s the link?
• Session 2: Getting ready to use the Sensory Integration Trauma Focused Approach
• Session 3: Feeling safe in your body – replacing what trauma steals.
• Session 4: Restoring the foundations – working with sensory and motor development
• Session 5: One minute they want one thing – the next something else
• Session 6: The tactile system and trauma
• Session 7: Hungry, tired, hot or cold – how do they know?
• Session 8: Starting to pull things together – Sensory Integration in the true sense.
• Session 9: Sensory challenges out and about
• Session 10: Pulling it all together
• Online one to one session with specialist Sensory Integration OT (optional)
  • One-hour personalised session based on video and written information provided by the family prior to the session.
  • The information will be reviewed by the specialist prior to meeting in order to maximise the benefit of the one-to-one time and provide feedback and support for any issues the family may be experiencing related to the programme and the application of the tools.
• Online one to one session with a specialist Clinical Psychologist (optional)
  • One-hour personalised session based on video and written information provided by the family prior to the session.
  • The information will be reviewed by the specialist prior to meeting in order to maximise the benefit of the one-to-one time and provide feedback and support with any attachment or psychological issues that have surfaced during the application of the programme.

TO FIND OUT MORE, email us at contact@encounter.uk.com