This course is now fully booked.
Understanding the sensory and emotional world of your child
The Just Right State parents’ programme is a six-session course based on the principles of Sensory Attachment Intervention, devised by Eadaoin Bhreathnach. M.Sc. Consultant Occupational Therapist and Attachment Counsellor, to provide parents with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding about how their child’s nervous system works, to observe their child’s ability to self-regulate, and finally, consider how to provide a regulating environment in the home.
Self-regulation in this context, refers to the capacity to regulate physiological responses and respond in an appropriate and organised manner to environmental demands, such as engaging in an activity or engaging with others (Bhreathnach, 2014; JRS programme).
The programme is in person, experiential and participatory and aims to promote shared fun and enjoyment within the group!
- Tuesdays 10am to 1pm
- Dates (it’s important that you can attend all six sessions)
- Session 1 Wednesday 15 January 2025
- Session 2 Wednesday 22 January 2025
- Session 3 Wednesday 29 January 2025
- No group Wednesday 5 February 2025
- Session 4 Wednesday 12 February 2025
- Session 5 Wednesday 19 February 2025
- No group Monday 24 to Friday 28 February
- Session 6 Wednesday 12 March 2025
- Venue: ask for location when booking) Maximum number in the group is six families.
- Cost: Funded through the Adoption Support Fund
- To book: please email us adoptsouthwestsupport@devon.gov.uk
Facilitators:
- Sue Pearson (Senior Social Worker at Adopt South West)
- Kelly Lynes (Family Practitioner at Adopt South West)
Objectives
The objective of the Just Right State Programme is to provide parents with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding about how their child’s nervous system works, to observe their child’s ability to self-regulate, and finally, consider how to provide a regulating environment in the home.
Self -regulation in this context, refers to the capacity to regulate physiological responses and respond in an appropriate and organised manner to environmental demands, such as engaging in an activity or engaging with others (Bhreathnach, 2014; JRS programme).
Alongside this, the programme looks at attachment patterns from a DMM perspective (Dynamic maturational model) and encourages parents to observe the purpose of their child’s behaviours. Is it to regulate arousal states or to enhance sensory information? Is to ensure attention, activate comfort or protection from adults? Is to gain approval?
Children with complex trauma typically present with overlapping or fluctuating sensory and attachment patterns. Correct interpretations helps us to provide them with the support they need to feels safer and more regulated
The programme is experiential and participatory and aims to promote shared fun and enjoyment. Loads of strategies are shared and by the end of the course the aim is that parents have some concrete strategies to help regulate their child and awareness of how they can best engage and get alongside them when they are distressed.