Therapeutic care has its roots in the post-war psychoanalytic movement that sought to understand the impact trauma has on children and young people and what support needs to be put in place to give them the best chance of recovering.
The approach led to the creation of therapeutic communities in the 1960s and 70s, but today it is more associated with residential care specialists that provide a wide range of therapeutic support for some of the most vulnerable and damaged children in the country.
These specialist settings offer children the right environment to tackle the trauma and emotional problems that are often the cause of their challenging behaviour while also attending to their educational and wider developmental needs.
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