Adoptionplus has an extensive therapeutic team which includes a variety of children’s therapists, adult counsellors and therapists, a specialist occupational therapist and a consultant clinical child psychologist.

We believe that in addition to the individual models of therapy our counsellors have trained in, it is essential that they all have additional training and skills in the field of adoption, attachment and trauma.

Some of the therapeutic services available to adoptive families include:

• Theraplay
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
• Occupational therapy – Sensory Attachment integration.
• Narrative attachment therapy
• Play therapy
• Music therapy
• Art therapy
• Drama therapy
• Systemic Family work

We also provide additional therapeutic services to adults, these include:

• Birth Family counselling services
• Counselling for adopted adults
• Counselling for Adopters
• Mediation

Theraplay

Theraplay is a lively, engaging, playful treatment method that produces remarkable changes in the lives of children and their families in a short time. As its basis Theraplay aims to promote the relationship between a child and his/her parents in a warm, nurturing and playful way. Parents are central to the therapy and this model teaches them:

• how to help their child engage in a more loving relationship with their parents
• how to use challenge to build competence and self-esteem
• how to infuse all their interactions with the sheer fun of joyful play
• how to take charge without humiliating or hurting their children
• how to stay with them when they are angry or upset
• how to use appropriate touch as part of tender, nurturing care.

Family Attachment Narrative Therapy

This is a gentle, non-intrusive method that uses stories when working with families. Stories can help the connection and empathy between parents and children, which can provide a channel for healing and trauma.

Sensory Attachment Intervention

This is an occupational therapy intervention linked to a physical sensation. SAI focuses on developing a child’s capacity to manage stressful feelings.  This innovative approach emerged from clinically integrating and adapting the theories of Sensory Integration, Attachment Classification and Symbolic Play.
 

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (Dan Hughes model)

DDP is a treatment approach to trauma and loss. It is a family centred model, with the child’s adoptive parents being actively involved. DDP involves creating a safe setting in which children can begin to explore and integrate a wide range of memories, emotions and experiences that are frightening to them.

Some information about the models we use.......

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