Issue details

‘Your Choice’ is the only current provider of bespoke, cohort-relevant training in CBT techniques that equips (at scale via train the trainer model) existing practitioners who are supporting children at risk of youth violence in the field of youth justice, youth work and complex safeguarding to enhance their practice with practical CBT tools, whilst working within a local authority’s practice framework. CBT is recognised as an effective intervention for a range of emotional and behavioural conditions associated with the use of violence. The programme enables existing youth practitioners to use CBT techniques available with children most affected by violence, through enhancing their skills in building therapeutic relationships with them, so that increased pro social behaviours and safety for these children can be achieved.

Whilst traditional CBT has sometimes been seen by some to negate systemic, relational and trauma-based approaches, this programme alternatively seeks to work with these wider understandings of the child’s personal / familial history and context and the systems of which they are a part.