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Psychologically informed environment
The overall architecture of the container/environment/structure built to enhance emotional recovery within he individual.
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Secure base
Bowlby (1988) the foundation for building emotional recovery.
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Life model
The overall concepts/ideas/interventions routinely drawn upon to deliver emotional recovery.
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Psychologically informed practices
Practices derived from the PIE philosophy based upon delivering emotional recovery.
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Case formulation
Developing an understanding of the signs and signals being sent by the young person around their unease and how to undertake an effective intervention.
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Zone of proximal development
Working out the baseline and potential for growth of the young person.
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Open space mindfulness
Introducing a way of thinking about the self and others based on reflection and reflexivity.
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Life guardian
Beyond a mentor – someone who provides emotionally positive interventions.
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Life interests
Generating interests beyond the present in relation to the young person’s strengths.
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Building critical insight
Developing reflection upon behaviour as well as reflection within behaviour.
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Environment suitability
Thinking and reflecting on the impact of the environment upon the individual.
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Reciprocal relations building
Relationships are two way and not just top-down impositions.
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Reciprocal relations building
Relationships are two way and not just top-down impositions.
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Paradigm shift
Rethinking what appears as ‘common sense’.
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Therapeutic recovery
Helping the individual to learn about themselves and others to move to a higher stage of being.
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Ontological security
Having a sense of being emotionally held and that the immediate environment being non-threatening as an embedded experience.
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Ecological environment
The wider set of environments an individual inhabits.
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Emotional recovery
The ability to dissolve the impact of depression and anxiety in order to exist within the moment and actualise the self.
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Trauma
The invisible psychological resonances of the past shaping the present along with future aspirations as a set of unreflected beliefs and practices.
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Holistic psychologically informed framework
Thinking about all aspects of the environment which shapes emotional recovery.
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Psychosocial stages of growth
Erik Erikson’s stages of emotional development.
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Transactional analysis
Adult, child and parent ideations which shape the internal voice which is often critical due to being in the receipt of negative ideations.
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Existential
Finding a life purpose to stave off thinking about nothingness and the void.
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Phenomenological
Being able to shift away from ‘common sense’ and look at issues from numerous angles to discover the essence of why they exist.
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Projections
Unresolved ideations that are cast onto the ‘other’ which do not exist in reality except in the mind of the individual casting them.
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Theoretical concepts
Ideas that exist within philosophy which then guides action – often these are embedded to such an extent the individual is unaware – at other times the theory helps to justify the way that something was delivered.
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Container
Taken from Bion (1960) and this represents the structure that a set of actions take place within.
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Scaffolding
Taken from Bruner (1974) is the idea that young people need a great deal of support initially with the aim that they move to towards self-actualisation (doing things for themselves).
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Schemas of apperception
Taken from Adler (1932) the idea that we develop basic building blocks about concepts and draw upon these to make sense of the world, drawing upon them to name and label things often without much further thought.
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Transference
The various invisible interactions that take place between individuals based upon forming an understanding and inter-connection – this can be infused with projections initially along with counter projections.
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Life vision
The ability to project into the future a way of being and living which can either be positive or negative for the long-term outcome.
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Theory of mind
The ability to see the world from another person’s perspective even if it is negative and make sense of how they view the world based on an enhanced intuition.
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Emotional Literacy
The ability to connect to other people’s feelings and thoughts, a type of higher form of intuition.