Trauma informed care and the Applied Trauma Responsive Classroom Model (ATRCM)

Abstract

Key digested messageEducation settings have a unique and vital role to play in supporting children to manage and overcome adversity, and to build their resilience for future experiences. The applied trauma responsive classroom model (ATRCM) was developed considering the resilience literature, the experiences the author has as a local authority educational psychologist, and a desire to empower education settings to deliver the support that the evidence suggests will make a difference. the ATRCM hopes to offer an easily accessible and inclusive means to establishing developmentally sensitive and childcentred approaches of trauma informed care in the classroom.