2020 has been a difficult year for all of us. Globally we have been connected by the impact of a pandemic caused by Covid 19, a coronavirus.
Unprecedented for our generation this led to a lockdown and the closure of schools. As the lockdown progressed and our sights turned to its relaxation there were many discussions about helping children manage the potential trauma and distress experienced during lockdown and helping them return to school, which in many ways will be different to the school experience they left behind.
A number of us from DDPI and DDP Connects UK got together virtually to have our own conversations about this. This resulted in two recorded conversations.
Part 1 ‘Transitioning out of Lockdown: Building Secure Bases & Steady Bridges between Home and School’ focusses on “what might be going on for traumatised young people, their carers and parents and the school staff who will be beside them as they try to adjust to a ‘New Normal’.”
Part 2 ‘Transitioning out of Lockdown: How we might use the DDP Model to help adults at home and at school to support our traumatised young people’ explores “how to use the DDP model to build ‘Home-School Bridges’ to support traumatised young people and the adults around them through this new phase of uncertainty and beyond.”
Both videos can be viewed on the new DDPI Vimeo Channel and Sez Morse’s YouTube channel.
