Child Protection Interventions & Consultancy

At Therapeutic Approach, we recognise that intergenerational trauma, problematic alcohol or other drug use, domestic and family violence, and various parental concerns  can hinder caregivers’ ability to raise children in safe, secure, and nurturing environments.

Our mission is to support families and statutory agencies so that children can be cared for at home, remain connected with their families, and/or be reunited and stabilised with attachment figures who can provide protection, consistent and nurturing care.

We specialise in:

  • Interventions with Parental Agreement and Support Service Case: Preventing children from entering the Statutory System.
  • Family Reunifications: Facilitating the safe return of children to their homes.
  • Sustainability of Kin and Family-Based Placements: Ensuring a sense of belonging and permanence for children in alternative care settings.

Safe, Secure & Nurturing Parenting with
DDP and Theraplay informed practice.
Risk Assessment & management, and
DV-informed practice.

Our Therapeutic Approach We collaborate with Child Protection agencies to:

  • Form meaningful and collaborative partnerships with families to foster change.
  • Prioritise connections with cultural heritage and community.
  • Enhance safety, stability, and nurturing in home or placement environments.
  • Engage in ongoing risk assessment and management.
  • Conduct comprehensive parenting assessments and develop case formulations for therapeutic interventions.
  • Unpack unresolved, generational or systemic trauma.

Our evidence-based, trauma-informed, and attachment-responsive therapeutic care includes:

  • Psychoeducation: Educating families about the impact of trauma, mental health issues, substance abuse, child physical, emotional, psychological ad sexual abuse, child brain development, and attachment disruptions and repairs.
  • Focussed Psychological Strategies (FPS): Providing specific mental healthcare treatments based on evidence-based psychological therapies.
  • Attachment-Informed Family Therapy: Offering family therapy that is informed by attachment theories.
  • Solution and Goal-focused Interventions: Working towards addressing Child Protection concerns and achieving intervention goals.
  • Skill Development: Enhancing the cognitive, emotional, and practical skills of parents and caregivers to meet children’s needs.
  • Comprehensive Parenting and Child Assessments: Understanding and addressing the complex needs of children and young people.

Therapeutic Approach is committed to supporting the well-being and flourishing of children by providing the highest standards of therapeutic care and intervention.

 

Our Therapeutic Approach to Child Protection Interventions and Assessments

We integrate into risk and parenting assessments, case formulation for therapeutic interventions, and their therapeutic interventions the contributions of multiple trauma-informed, attachment-responsive, science-based, and emotionally secure approaches, theories, and therapeutic tools, including:

Safe and Together Model:

  • Advanced application of David Mandel’s Safe and Together model and Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool.
  • Identification of protective and safety measures.
  • Applying family functioning safety frameworks alongside clinical diagnoses for comprehensive assessments and treatment plans.

Theraplay:

  • Enhancing connection and containment and managing attachment or/and sensory-seeking behaviours.
  • Co-regulating and processing intense emotions and sensory stimuli.
  • Supporting caregivers through adjustment, grief, and loss.
  • Incorporate play to integrate relational and developmental trauma.

PACE Attitude & DDP:

  • Implementing the PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy) attitude.
  • Adapting Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) for appropriate participants.
  • Providing attachment-focused treatment for emotional security.
  • Facilitating attunement and meaningful connection.

Trauma-Informed Care:

  • Applying the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework.
  • Integrating Polyvagal Theory and understanding top-down versus bottom-up behaviour to ensure children feel safe at all times.
  • Utilizing the National Child Traumatic Stress Network guidelines.

 

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