Professional Training

Newbold Hope – If your team works with children and young people who have difficult or dangerous behaviour, we can help.

We are CPD Accredited, providing comprehensive staff training which can cover any or all of the following topics: -

1. Why difficult and dangerous behaviours can develop

2. How most of these behaviours are driven by anxiety, which causes the children and young people to feel intense levels of distress, confusion, fear, to the point whereby they feel unsafe and under threat

3. How this behaviour is instinctive, beyond a child’s control, and not a “choice” nor caused by wilful disobedience

4. Anxiety, what it is and how it can present in children and young people

5. How to identify the underlying causes of these anxiety-driven behaviours

6. Sensory processing difference, their impact on behaviour, and how to identify and address them.

7. How communication and miscommunication can impact on behaviour and miscommunication

8. How to identify communication difficulties and how to address them

9. Differences in processing speed, and how this can impact on communication and on behaviour

10. An understanding of resistance to change and transitions and why this happens

11. How to minimise the impact of any change and transitions

12. An understanding of the importance of routines for some CYP

13. Alexithymia

14. Theory of Mind

15. Masking

16. Self-esteem

17. Controlling behaviour

18. Demand-avoidant behaviour

19. Safety strategies to reduce risk to others

20. Why it is important to move away from traditional disciplinary strategies

21. Why it’s nobody’s fault

22. Understanding the damaging impact of blame and judgement

23. The importance of kindness, building trust and connection

24. How to support parents to feel better about themselves, so that parenting becomes easier

25. The importance of self-care and reflection for you and your colleagues

Tailored training to more closely meet the needs of your colleagues

We provide solution-focused training to staff across education, health and social care, and both the content and the duration of training can be designed around the needs of your staff team.

Sessions can be as short as a one-hour “basics” session, or they can be much longer, more in-depth sessions delivered across several days, or anything in-between.

All our strategies are sourced from lived experience. We facilitate a digital community of nearly 16,000 UK families, all living with a child who has a disability or an additional need, and who also becomes so overwhelmed that their behaviour can become physically violent towards others, in most cases, to members of their immediate family.

Every session is packed full of strategies that we know have already been successful with many of this group of children and young people, everything we do is informed by and co-produced with families of children with episodes of extreme behaviours.

Although one of the criteria to join our digital community is that the child or young person must have a history of such difficult or dangerous behaviour, we understand the devastating impact that other forms of difficult and dangerous childhood behaviour can have on the child’s family, on the staff who work alongside them, and on the wider community.

Our training is suitable for staff who are supporting children and young people with a wide range of behaviour difficulties, including children who are: -

1. Hurting or attempting to hurt others

2. Using offensive language

3. Controlling or attempting to control other people and situations

4. Self-harming

5. Hurting or attempting to hurt animals

6. Threatening to hurt others

7. Running away or attempting to run away

8. Destroying property

9. Bullying or “picking on” other children and young people

10. Avoiding demands

11. Have sexualised behaviour

12. Making or talking about making suicide attempts

13. Having suicidal thoughts

14. Coping with an eating disorders

15. Involved in substance misuse

16. Involved in Alcohol misuse

17. At risk of exploitation in the community

18. At risk of exploitation online

Everything we do is about strengthening families, because in most cases, a family is the most significant protective factor for this group of particularly vulnerable children.

The learning objectives of all of our training is to develop the knowledge, the skills and the confidence to work with this group of children and their families to significantly reducing extreme behaviour episodes in terms of : -

1. Intensity

2. Duration

3. Frequency

Our training is very highly rated by both professionals and parents alike : -

· 99% of participants would recommend our sessions to others

· Asked to rate the helpfulness of our training on a scale of 1 – 10, the average score is 9.6

· 97% of participants report that their confidence has increased as a result of attending the session

To find out more about our training, please get in touch with Yvonne – yvonne@newboldhope.com

Yvonne Newbold MBE

Founder - Newbold Hope

Email – yvonne@newboldhope.com