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CATEGORY: COURTS Katie Rinaudo, founder of OrphanWise Source: Local 3 News Read time: 1.8 minutes This Happened A two-day training was provided April 18 and 19, 2024, in Cleveland, TN, open to the public, on Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The model is designed to coach parents and children on how to address problems believed to arise from negative attachment experiences in early childhood. Who Did This? The Bradley County Juvenile Court in Tennessee helped sponsor the event. Training was led by staff from OrphanWise, a local nonprofit organization. OrphanWise was founded in 2019 by Katie Rinaudo in Cleveland, TN, to disseminate the TBRI model. To expand work beyond orphans and adopted children, the organization rebranded in 2020 with a name change to CareEquip by OrphanWise. Trainers are not clinical providers. The four OrphanWise trainers in TBRI have a variety of backgrounds. Rinaudo and another staff have master’s degrees in holistic child development, one staff has a bachelor’s degree in public relations, and one staff has a master’s in international development. The Premise Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI) was developed by psychologists Karyn Purvis (deceased in 2016) and David Cross (retired) at Texas Christian University in 2000. The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU remains a training headquarters for TBRI. TBRI teaches that the emotional and behavioral problems seen in many orphans and adopted children stem from psychological stress of no or limited attachment connections which permanently damages brains. TBRI attempts to reverse that damage by coaching caregivers to provide love, trust, and model attachment behaviors. The treatment principles of TBRI aim to impose emotional regulation on children through caregiver actions that include: (1) make children feel safe with smooth and predictable transitions during the day, (2) address sensory processing deficits for touch and food textures, (3) address excessive sensitivity to hunger cues with nutritional snacks and water every two hours, (4) improve sleep hygiene, (5) regular physical activity, (6) encourage touch and eye contact, and (7) practice attunement between children and caregivers [1]. The Purvis Institute’s mission is to expand the use of TBRI into “juvenile justice, child welfare (congregate care, foster care), medical, legal, law enforcement, education, mental health, advocacy, and beyond” [2]. Analysis As Trauma Dispatch has reported, many types of trauma-informed trainings are held around the Western world, and especially in the United States, all with the grand ambition to embed the unproven and discredited narrative that stress and trauma damage the brain. TBRI is unique for its primary focus on attachment disturbances. The founders of TBRI repeatedly call it an evidence-based intervention, yet it meets none of the traditional criteria for being evidence-based because it has never been studied with a control group. It’s not clear how TBRI interventions can be implemented in juvenile justice as there are no known studies in that setting. It's also not clear how a model that was developed for working with children who had been infants in orphanages can translate to working with adolescent criminals. The notion that some or most criminals just need love and trust that they never received in childhood has been a hypothesis of humanitarian reformers for decades, but that belief has never survived tests in the real world. Criminals tend to lack empathy and remorse for their actions, and no therapeutic intervention has succeeded in creating those outcomes de novo. The main reason for holding a training in Bradley County appears to be that OrphanWise is based in Cleveland, which is the largest city in Bradley County. The county is home to only 110,000 people and the rate of violent crime is lower than the national average [3]. REFERENCES [1] Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, Donald F. Dansereau, Sheri R. Parris (2013). Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI): A Systemic Approach to Complex Developmental Trauma, Child & Youth Services, 34:360–386, 2013, DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2013.859906 [2] Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. Texas Christian Univesity, https://child.tcu.edu/about-us/tbri/. Accessed 5/14/24. [3] Federal Bureau of Investigation. Crime Data Explorer. https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend. Accessed 5/17/24. Like Trauma Dispatch? You can subscribe to our email notices of new posts on this page. Comments are closed.
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