TBRI PRINCIPLES

TBRI Introduction and Overview

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is a holistic approach that is multi-disciplinary, flexible, attachment-centered, and challenging. It is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention that is specifically designed for children who come from hard places, such as maltreatment, abuse, neglect, multiple home placements, and violence, but you’ll see that the principles apply to all children.

TBRI Connecting Principles

The TBRI® Connecting Principles are the heart and soul of TBRI®, as they help children build trust and meaningful relationships. In this session, you’ll learn about the two components of TBRI®’s Connecting Principles:

• Mindfulness Strategies provide caregivers with important tools regarding awareness of what they bring to interactions with their children, such as being conscious of their own relationship histories.

• Engagement Strategies provide tools for connecting with children non verbally, such as eye contact, behavior matching, and playful engagement.

TBRI Empowering Principles

The TBRI® Empowering Principles are designed to facilitate change in children by supporting their physical needs and teaching them self-regulation skills. Self-regulation skills, managing behavior and emotions, are important for children’s success in the classroom, with peers, and in interactions with adults.

TBRI Correcting Principles

TBRI® Correcting Principles training will go more in-depth into how Connecting Principles, not Correcting Principles provide the foundation for relationships. Caregivers find behavior correction easier and smoother when they have a solid basis of connection with their children. In fact, we believe that children will only accept correction when there is a base of connection in the relationship.