Intelligent Support

Debriefing

Timely debriefing is essential after a critical incident as part of a worker's recovery from its psychological impact. In addition, our facilitators use a combination of psychodynamic and trauma informed frameworks to assist helping professionals to:

Mitigate against potential vicarious trauma

Make sense client behaviour

Disentangle the client's traumatic material from their own emotional response

As part of clinical reflection that make inform adjustments to behaviour support plans

And to inform necessary changes to processes and systems in order to minimize risk.

Depending on circumstance and need, debriefing may be conducted individually or in groups.

Intelligent Support

Reflective Practice Groups

Each session is structured to accommodate a framework of evidence-based theory that underpins, as summarised above, the mitigation of vicarious trauma and facilitation of insight, team cohesion, and retention for application of training principles in the workplace. Sessions are open, do not place pressure on members to speak except at the beginning 'checking in' stage, and are contained and guided by the facilitator who offers their own reflections through a theoretical lens.

Reflective practice and clinical consultation sessions are focussed on the young people under the care or case management of the team and also provides the theoretical underpinnings of trauma informed care, and understanding of developmental trauma and how it impacts on behavioural presentation.

The group session serves as an interactive secondary consultation as well as ongoing embedding of the practice approach and tailored model of intervention. These regular sessions enable the formulation of approaches and strategies, to evaluate and modify approaches as needed and ensure that therapeutic progress is being achieved through the care plan design and approaches of carers and stakeholders.

Leadership group - Acts as a safe, reflective space for the executive team to discuss the implication of trauma theory on every aspect of the organisational role in therapeutic care, with a focus on staff teams, programs, challenges with relationships with FACS and other agencies that may not be working to a trauma-based model, and formation and sustaining of positive house 'culture'.

Clinical team - Provides an external reference point, and an ongoing avenue for trouble-shooting and reflection around coaching of staff, clinical challenges and putting the principles of the model into practice. It also, additionally ensures that the clinical staff from all areas regularly meet together to discuss practice challenges and to ensure consistency and congruence in approach and clinical systems.