Sophie Mulvana
CLINICAL LEAD OF THE HEALTH TEAM AT CLARE LODGE
Sophie is the clinical lead of the Health Team at Clare Lodge, a secure welfare home for girls between the age of 11-18. She is also a member of the Managed Clinical Advisory Group for Children and Young People in Secure Care and the Professional Collaboration Network for the Integrated Framework for Secure Care. She has been working to bring trauma informed practice to Clare Lodge and their outreach service using the Attachment Regulation Competencies Model. She is a clinical psychologist by background and has spent much of her career thinking about how systems in inpatient settings, including hospitals and prisons, can more effectively understand and support those who come into contact with them.
Workshop Two - Kati Taunt & Panelists: Nichola Green, Mark Maidens, Sophie Mulvana - The Driving and Restraining forces relating to the Implementation of Trauma-Informed Practice in a variety of settings using the ARC Framework
This workshop will provide an overview of the well respected and evidence-based approach to
working with developmental trauma that is the ARC Framework (Attachment, Regulation and Competence).
A panel of experienced professionals from 3 different contexts (adolescent psychiatric in-patient services,
specialist education provision for primary aged children and social care secure unit) will share their reasons
for choosing to become trauma-informed, what drew them to the ARC framework. The panel will also share
their experiences of the driving forces to implementation and restraining forces within their contexts and
wider systems that needed to be undone to enable this.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Will have an understanding of The ARC framework and how it supports children and families to get back on
track and integrate their experiences of trauma.
2. Will have gained insight as to how the model can be adapted for a variety of educational, social care and
health settings.
3. Will have been able to understand the nature of driving and restraining forces in relation to implementing
Trauma-Informed Practice in a variety of settings
4. Will have knowledge of how some restraining forces can be undone.
