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DOMAIN 5
Integrating clinical, welfare, and
educational approaches
Key Concepts
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Our Trauma-Informed Positive Education model includes four lenses for pedagogical
practice:
1. Body
o We consider trauma’s impact on the body, with specific accommodations
for the stress/threat response.
o Students have opportunities to co-regulate and self-regulate (aiming
towards resting heart rate of 80 beats per minute).
o Patterned, rhythmic, repetitive, somatosensory activities.
o Opportunities to practice mindfulness and personal skills.
o Sensory integration and coordination of large and fine motor skills.
o Rhythmic, predictable, and consistent timetables (including for lessons,
weeks, term).
2. Stamina
o Emotional intelligence.
o Personal resilience and self-talk strategies.
o Frustration tolerance.
o Strategies for maintaining attention and managing distraction.
o Encouraging growth mindsets.
o Group affiliation.
3. Engagement
o Opportunities to broaden, build, and savour positive emotions.
o Hands on experiences.
o Kinaesthetic, visual, and aural learning opportunities.
o Opportunities to experience flow and have peak experiences.
o Real world problem solving and connections to vocational pathways.