Trauma-Informed Practice in Education: Making Safe Spaces for Learning

We often hear that all behaviour is communication, but how do we fully understand what children are telling us when they act in distressed and often challenging ways in our settings? And how do we respond? This book offers a practice-oriented look at current theory around early childhood adversity, attachment, trauma and brain development.Traumatic experiences such as abuse, neglect, domestic violence, bereavement, bullying and others can have long-lasting effects on children, making responding to their impact a complex task for education professionals.But it is precisely through their enlightened response that healing can begin.Providing children with positive childhood experiences is dependent upon knowledgeable practitioners who can determine children’s different needs and use this understanding to create flexible, responsive learning environments.This book draws on up-to-date research informing the conceptualisation of trauma and trauma-informed interventions and uses this to estab