CATCH-point is a Registered Adoption Support Agency committed to developing integrated services for adoptive and foster families affected by trauma and attachment difficulties.

Assumptions

• Children, who have experienced early life trauma, including
  pre-birth traumas, will have developed injuries, which affect
  their trust in adults, social interactions, affect regulation,
  self-esteem and attachment patterns.

• The trauma that children have experienced affects those
  who care for, or work with them in the form of secondary
  trauma.

• Traumatised children's behaviour carries important
  messages about their suffering and should be recognised
  as such.

• Parents who adopt traumatised children should be offered
  continuing and appropriate support throughout their time
  parenting that child.

• Parents should be included in the therapy of their adopted
  child.

• Therapeutically addressing the parent/child bond enables
  parents to contribute to the healing of their child.