Inside I'm Hurting

Inside I'm Hurting provides educational professionals with a much-needed classroom handbook of new strategies, practical tools and the confidence for supporting these children from an attachment perspective, thus promoting inclusion in the school system.

Contents include

• how attachment difficulties can affect a child's ability to learn; providing an 'additional attachment figure' in schools
  
• the benefits and challenges of getting alongside children who have experienced trauma and loss
  
• transitions during the school day; permanency and constancy; being explicit; regulating arousal levels
  
• handling conflict
  
• wondering aloud
  
• lowering the effects of shame; working with transition from primary to secondary phase
  
• developing effective home/school partnership (includes a photocopiable initial meeting prompt card)
  
• providing staff support
  
• recommendations for future action.