Attachment for Teachers: An Essential Handbook for Trainees and NQTs

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g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. The guidelines also provide recommendations for attachment-focused interventions and effective methodologies for designing and evaluating the impact of these interventions. Findings in this report aim to inform the potential benefits to mental health in Wales of developing resilience both in children and adults to mitigate at least some of the detrimental impacts of experiencing ACEs. Insecure attachments develop if early interactions between a child and their parent or caregiver are more negative, more inconsistent or more insensitive. Dodds (2017) provides a set of slides giving the context to the ‘ACEs journey’ in Scotland so far linking to key policy documents.

My English teacher was my main source of support for two years, and she was the person I had come to trust most. McDowell, N (2017) The association between adverse childhood experiences and educational outcomes among children ages 6-17. If a student is behaving in a way which concerns you, then report that concern to your designated member of SLT (as you would any safeguarding concern). How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. Even my teacher from primary school gets the odd message from me now and then to check in and say hi.

The core of his theory is that attachment is an evolutionary adaptation which is characterised by a child seeking proximity to a caregiver when that child perceives a threat or suffers discomfort. This evidence suggests that such strategies provide longer-term solutions and are more cost-effective than many of the existing systems in place. What kinds of approaches have been effective in creating the conditions for positive educational outcomes? Examining adverse childhood experiences among students repeating the ninth grade: Implications for school dropout prevention.

Many children may display behaviour suggesting an insecure attachment type which may make it harder to form peer friendships, and this likely underlies an association between insecure and disorganised attachment and higher levels of behaviour problems.

or investigate the cause of problematic behaviour they suspect may relate to a safeguarding concern. You might do this by working with them directly, or by signposting families to other appropriate services.