Complex Trauma and Attachment in Children
Program at-a-glance
This training is designed for educators, carers, and professionals supporting children affected by trauma and attachment disruptions. It provides essential neuroscience-based insights into understanding their behavior and needs, along with practical strategies to foster safety, healing, and development. Participants will gain hands-on tools to decode complex behaviors and effectively support emotional recovery in children with relational trauma.
Decode Complex Behaviours: Learn neuroscience-based strategies to understand challenging behaviours in children impacted by relational trauma.
Aid Recovery: Gain practical tools to foster emotional healing and build healthy attachments.
Support Professionals: This workshop equips educators, carers, and professionals with the skills they need to effectively support children who have experienced trauma and attachment disruption.
Feeling overwhelmed by a child’s complex behaviour? You’re not alone.
This workshop goes beyond the challenge. We’ll break down complex behaviors and provide a roadmap for building trust, emotional regulation, and empathy.
What You’ll Gain:
Neuroscience Framework: Understand the impact of trauma on a child’s brain and behavior.
Practical Strategies: Learn hands-on tools to create a safe and supportive environment.
Research-Based & Practical: Combine cutting-edge research with real-world strategies to empower your work.
Meet the Facilitator
- Evidence-based content curated by Trent Savill
- Consultant therapist and trainer specialising in complex and high-risk behaviours
- Over 20 years of experience supporting children in the Child Protection System
- Trained over 70,000 carers and professionals around Australia
3 months access
Over 7 hours of training videos (16 modules) that you can watch at your own pace
Neuroscience-based framework
Evidence based approach determined by contemporary research.
Extra Resources
Ongoing access to our learning portal including a library of additional resources
Program Overview
PART ONE: TRAUMA
- Defining Trauma and Basic Brain Anatomy
- Response to Threat (Fight/Flight/Freeze/Collapse)
- Neurobiology of Trauma
PART TWO: ATTACHMENT
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- The Basics of Attachment
- Intersubjectivity, Empathy and Self-regulation
PART THREE: SUPPORTING CHILDREN TO HEAL & DEVELOP
- Creating Safety and Repairing the Brainstem
- Rebuilding Healthy Attachment
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Supporting a Child through an Escalation
Who is this training for?
- Parents
- Teachers and Educators
- Nurses
- Foster Carers
- Police Officers
- Youth Workers
- Social Workers
- Disability Support Workers
- Paramedics
- Counsellors
This training has been designed for educators, carers and other professionals supporting children who have been exposed to trauma and attachment disruption.
This series provides all the crucial information required to understand their behaviour and underlying needs, and to provide them with the critical experiences they require to feel safe, heal and develop.
Learning Outcomes
Understand relational trauma
Provides educators, professionals, and carers an in-depth understanding of supporting children with a history of relational trauma or attachment disruption.
Learn the Science
Offers a neuroscience-based framework for reinterpreting children’s emotional and behavioural issues and addressing their underlying needs.
Upskill Strategies
Simplifies contemporary research and integrates practice wisdom to deliver practical, hands-on strategies for supporting children’s recovery and development.