At United Care Solutions, recognising the importance of supporting children and young people by using a therapeutic approach is essential, but what does this actually look like?

For us, therapeutic care means following a consistent parenting approach within theoretical framework, which helps our team identify and meet the child’s specific needs.

It means we use approaches that are supported by decades of research on child development therapeutic interventions and children’s outcomes.

Supporting children who have suffered severe trauma or adverse childhood experiences requires more than just good parenting. As a provider offering residential services to vulnerable children, we realise we must consider therapeutic models such as the secure base model in order to prioritise the most positive outcomes for the children we support.

The Secure Base Model