BEYOND VISIONS THERAPY
WORKING WITH TRAUMA
Beyond Vision Transitions tradition is caring for children who have suffered pervasive trauma and attachment disruption throughout their early lives. The child’s trauma experiences have often resulted in a fragmented and punitive self-concept, and internal world characterised by fear, anxiety, sadness and anger. These feelings are expressed through distrust in relationships and in the world in general, displayed through a variety of challenging behaviours, including impulse towards flight/fight/freeze behavioural responses to manage overwhelming emotional effect.
Many of the children we care for have missed out on safe, consistent and nurturing relationships to guide them through their developmental progression, often causing them to be cautious in trusting that future relationships can provide the containment and emotional nourishment they require.
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To ensure continuity of therapeutic focus across all areas of the child’s life, an individualised integrative treatment plan is completed, to guide intervention, and reviewed every six months to ensure treatment efficacy longer term. This plan is informed via extensive reading of background information, observations of the child in all contexts of their life, and is augmented through a range of assessment protocols/scales relevant to the child’s unique trauma experience, behavioural presentation and assessed therapeutic needs.
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THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT WITH BVT
Treatment with Beyond Vision Transitions is supported through our multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment team, which includes in-house psychotherapy, clinical psychology and speak and language therapy.
The therapy team ensures that every child placed with us receives an initial holistic therapeutic needs assessment, leading into bespoke individualised therapeutic intervention. Every child is then re-assessed every six months, to ensure that therapeutic progress is being made within the key treatment areas identified.
Why therapy?
Therapy facilitates the child to gradually share and process their trauma, whilst developing a coherent life narrative, so to externalise responsibility for their traumatic experiences and improve individual resilience. Our therapeutic approach remains built on clinical concepts such as:
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- Integrated and unintegrated child (Winnicott)
- Attachment typologies (Bowlby)
- Syndromes of deprivation (Winnicott)
- The emotional needs assessment (Dockar-Drysdale)
- Facilitative therapeutic residential care (Bettelheim, Dockar-Drysdale)
At the beginning, child placement.
If we identify that a child would benefit from additional support we can provide individual psychotherapy, play therapy, additional clinical psychology consultation and speech and language therapy. Our experienced psychotherapists offer long term integrative or play therapy usually on a weekly basis. They are able to work through various mediums including creative arts, play-based, drama focused, group work and narrative interventions, depending on the child’s unique engagement style.
Therapists and therapy types.
Our therapists are able to work through various mediums including creative arts, play-based, drama focused, group work and narrative interventions, depending on the child’s unique engagement style. Therapy facilitates the child to gradually share and process their trauma, whilst developing a coherent life narrative, so to externalise responsibility for their traumatic experiences and improve individual resilience.