Training packages

The Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Framework is a flexible, components-based intervention developed for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma, along with their caregiving systems.

ARC’s foundation is built upon 4 key areas of study –

• normative childhood development
• traumatic stress
• attachment
• risk and resilience

Drawing from these areas, ARC identifies important childhood skills and competencies which are routinely shown to be negatively affected by traumatic stress and by attachment disruptions. When they are addressed, they can predict a resilient outcome.

ARC is designed as both an individual-level clinical intervention, to be used in treatment settings for youth and families, and as an organisational framework, to be used in service systems to support trauma-informed care.

The concepts identified by ARC may be applied to individuals from birth through young adulthood. They have been effectively used with youth with a range of developmental and cognitive functioning levels, and with a wide range of symptom presentations.

Caregiver goals are designed to translate across many different types of caregiving systems, including –

• primary –
  • biological
  • kin
  • foster parents
• milieu –
  • residential
  • group home
• organisational –
  • teachers
  • youth program providers

systems of care

Email hnf-tr.hnymhpmo@nhs.net or view our training programme leaflet for more information.

You can view our full training programme and book on courses through our downloads page.