Effective training in residential care must translate directly into improved practice.
Generic workshops that sit outside the daily realities of the home rarely lead to sustained change.
Abacus Therapeutics delivers applied, context-specific training designed to embed therapeutic thinking into everyday care and strengthen inspection confidence.
A structured training needs assessment can be undertaken at the outset of our involvement to identify existing strengths, gaps in knowledge or confidence, and priority areas for workforce development aligned with the home’s therapeutic model and inspection objectives.
Core areas of training
Trauma & Attachment
Trauma and attachment in practice, including attachment theory, neurodevelopmental trauma, and structured application of PACE principles, with refresher sessions available to strengthen relational consistency across teams.
Trauma Recovery Model
Trauma Recovery Model implementation, supporting staff to understand stabilisation, processing and integration phases and how these translate into everyday residential care.
Care Planning
Formulation and therapeutic care planning, enabling teams to ground behaviour support, risk management and key work in clear psychological understanding.
Therapeutic Writing
Therapeutic writing, supporting practitioners to produce psychologically informed, defensible and formulation-led documentation that evidences progress and rationale.
Good Lives Model
The Good Lives Model, integrating strengths-based rehabilitation thinking into care planning.
Child Exploitation
Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation, strengthening contextual safeguarding awareness, professional curiosity and psychologically informed disruption strategies.
Sexual Behaviours
Developmentally Appropriate Sexual Behaviour and how to talk with children and young people about healthy sexual relationships in a confident, proportionate and safeguarding-aware manner.
Self-injurious Behaviours
Self-injurious behaviour, focusing on functional understanding, emotional regulation strategies and safe, relational responses.
Neurodevelopmental Differences
ADHD and neurodevelopmental differences, supporting staff to differentiate between trauma responses and neurodevelopmental presentation and to adapt care accordingly.
De-Escalation
Verbal de-escalation and the use of force, emphasising prevention, relational authority and defensible decision-making in high-risk situations.
Managing Disclosures
Managing disclosures, ensuring safe, containing and legally robust responses to trauma, abuse and safeguarding concerns.
Professional Boundaries
Professional boundaries and relational authority, strengthening consistency, reducing drift and protecting both staff and young people.
Leadership
Leadership and reflective culture, supporting managers to embed psychologically informed oversight, structured supervision and sustainable workforce development.
Training is scenario-based, interactive and tailored to the specific profile of the home.
Where requested and subject to availability of resources, sessions can also be delivered on-site within the home.
Where required, follow-up consultation sessions can be provided to support implementation and prevent drift back into reactive patterns.
Training and workshops are primarily delivered online to maximise accessibility and support staff attendance across varying shift patterns, reducing disruption to residential routines.
Certificates of attendance are provided for all participants to support workforce development records and inspection evidence.
Where required, follow-up consultation sessions can be provided to support implementation and prevent drift back into reactive patterns.
To explore how we could support your setting or to request further information, please contact Abacus Therapeutics:
Ormskirk,
Lancashire,
L40 2WS
enquiries@abacustherapeutics.net
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