TBRI Parenting Class

TBRI® Parenting Class

When: Call us to find out the current time and dates of classes
Where: Biofeedback & Counseling
Cost: $10, payment can be made at the front desk prior to attending the class

Nancy Straughn - Parent Educator
Nancy Straughn obtained a B.S. in Family and Consumer Science with a double minor in Child Development and Education from the University of North Texas. She taught at Texas Womans' University Early Childhood Development Center. She also worked with public school students in diverse classroom environments including a closed campus behavioral high school classroom. Currently, she is pursuing a Master's Degree in Child, Youth, and Family Services from University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is a holistic approach that is multi-disciplinary, flexible, attachment-centered, and challenging. Founded by Dr. Karen Purvis and Dr. David Cross, founders of the Institute of Child Development, TBRI® is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention that is specifically designed for children who come from hard places. Children within these hard places can be experiencing anything from maltreatment, abuse, and neglect to multiple home placements, and violence. Although these principles have mainly been applied to dealing with trauma in children, you'll see that they can be applied to all children from any background. Strong attachment relationships between a child and caregiver are an essential part of any child's development, but they can also greatly impact a child's healing process. TBRI® consists of three sets of harmonious principles: Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting Principles, which will be learned about in this and other training modules. TBRI® principles have been used in homes, schools, residential facilities, orphanages, and several other settings. They are designed for use with children and youth of all ages and all risk levels. TBRI® is effective because it is founded in research and theory and is based upon how optimal development should have occurred. By helping caregivers understand what should have happened in early development, TBRI® principles guide children and youth back to their natural development trajectory.

TBRI® Introduction & Overview

Goals for this training:

To lay the foundation for deep insight about the impact of a child's history on their long-term development.
To create a framework for practical intervention and application.
To enhance understanding about how to interpret behavior and to respond appropriately.

TBRI® Connecting Principles

Goals for this training:

To gain knowledge and insight about what secure attachment looks like between children and caregivers.
To learn helpful ways to help build a connection with with children who come from hard places and did not have secure attachment.
To understand the impact attachment history can have on children's behavior.
To gain insight and awareness about how our own attachment history influences the way we care for children
To learn appropriate proactive strategies to empower children with behavioral tools.

TBRI® Correcting Principles

Goals for this training:

To lay the foundation for understand how to balance structure and nurture during interactions with children.
To communicate that, after behavioral episodes, children should: Be Content
Feel Connected to their caregiver
Have Changed behavior

TBRI® Empowering Principles

Goals for this training:

To enhance understanding about the physiological/internal roots of children's behavior.
To learn appropriate strategies for meeting children's sensory needs.
To provide tools for making the environment feel safe and predictable for children.
To create a bridge between theory and application for east of use of the principles taught.