Training & The Safe & Meaningful Contact Guidelines
Psychological Minds
The Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines (SaMC)
The Safe and Meaningful Contact Guidelines (Burke, Woodhouse and Burke, 2025) provide practitioners with an evidence-based framework for making, managing, and reviewing contact (keeping in touch/family time) arrangements.
Grounded in contemporary attachment theory and the latest empirical research, the SaMC Guidelines outline the essential information decision-makers need to reach trauma-responsive, child-centred conclusions about contact. They structure decision-making around children’s developmental and trauma-recovery needs and are applicable across care settings, including short-term and permanent foster care, kinship and special guardianship arrangements, and post-adoption contexts.
Find out more about the SaMC and current training here:
Training
Psychological Minds offers a range of trainings for professionals who work with vulnerable children across the legal system, health, education, social services, voluntary and private sectors. We offer training on trauma, trauma informed legal decision making, psychological parenting capacity assessment, child and adolescent mental health, and child and adolescent Occupational Therapy.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss your organisations training needs.
