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Relational Reparation

Relational Reparation

Awareness of the way that people, when under stress, may be triggered in their current relationships with others based on their previous relationships (attachment patterns). The delivery of support by ‘peers’/people with lived experience of trauma and mental health difficulties.

 

Staff Practice Points

1. There are good working collaborative alliances between staff, service-users, teams and agencies around trauma-based needs.
2. Staff collaborate with service-users and each other towards a personalised healing journey that prevents further harm.
3. There is an emphasis in my service that healing from trauma occurs within safe and trusting relationships.
4. Attention is paid to ensure all forms of communication (written, verbal, non-verbal, and behaviours) are compassionate.
5. Reflective practice and the capacity to think non-critically about the motivations behind the action of others are paramount.
6. Staff actively seek to contribute towards a functioning open relationship even when things are difficult.
7. Policies and performance targets include a focus on patient and staff experience.

 

 

User Practice Points

1. I notice good working relationships between staff, teams and other agencies.
2. Staff work together with me to create a personal healing journey that tries to reduce further harm.
3. There is an understanding within my service/team that they can help best with safe and trusting relationships.
4. Efforts are made to communicate compassion through all types of interaction and communications.
5. Staff can reflect, non-judgementally, on their own actions and those of others.
6. Even during difficult times, staff seek to promote positive, open relationships.
7. It seems that policies and staff targets have included a focus on service user and staff experiences.

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Narratives

Formulation meeting in time of crisis

A service user in a supported accommodation had reached a point of crisis and could have potentially died at any time. Different services had started to become very defensive and hostile to each other.

relational reparation

Client Case Study

I received a referral from MARAC for a client. She had been referred into MARAC as a victim of domestic violence and more recently as a perpetrator as she has stabbed her mam and sister during a disturbance at her mother’s house. The client had been through a lot of trauma as a child and as an adult.

relational reparation, compassionate and transformational leadership

Experiential staff training: understanding developmental trauma and knowing how to connect and support in a safe, sustainable way

Development of a training session for staff working with individuals with trauma histories

human experience language, relational reparation

Connecting and discovering through Equine Assisted Therapy

Equine Assisted Therapy is used worldwide to help those suffering from trauma. It is an approach which allows people to observe through the behaviour of the horses, and their interactions with them, what is going on in their inner world.

relational reparation