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 Certification 

SAI Level Two Certification for Practitioners

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SAI Level One Certification for Practitioners

 

Requirements:

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  • SAI Theory & Applied Practice Course or 

  • An SAI Approach to Intellectual Developmental Disability (this course is currently only available on request for in-house training).

  • Use of SAI Assessment and Clinical Formulation Tools for Practitioners

  • Report Writing 

  • The SAI Fidelity Measure 

  • Submission of a case study. 

 

Practitioners can state that their practice is both sensory and attachment informed.

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They are qualified to:

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  • Analyse children’s stress behavioural patterns

  • Provide advice on the regulating needs of the child

  • Deliver the Just Right State Programme for Children and Caregivers.

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​​SAI Level Two Certification for Practitioners

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Requirements:

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Recommend attendance: for those working with adolescents and adults.

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SAI Level Two focuses on the co-regulation process of parent/carer child engagement. It involves analysis of stress patterns and the use of standardised assessments of child and adult attachment patterns. Practitioners address parents’ and children’s attachment issues that impede the process of co-regulation process.

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This training will involve individual supervision of two case studies of parent child engagement sessions. Duration of supervision for one case study: once every two weeks over a period of 14 weeks. Practitioners then proceed to working on a further two single case studies. They will be required to have a check-in review supervision on week 6 of the process, then proceed unsupervised until completion of their case study. If there are any elements of the intervention where the Practitioner's practice requires further supervision, the Practitioner will be advised accordingly. On successful completion, the Practitioner is Certified as an SAI Level 2 Practitioner.

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​​SAI Level One Certification for Therapists

​Requirements:

 

  • SAI Theory & Applied Practice Course or 

  • An SAI Approach to Intellectual Developmental Disability (this course is currently only available on request for in-house training).

  • Trauma Informed Assessment & Intervention (TIAI): A Practical Approach to Sensory Trauma and Complex Trauma.

  • Use of SAI Assessment and Clinical Formulation Tools for Therapists (this is included in the TIAI course).

  • Report Writing Course.

  • The SAI Fidelity Measure.

  • Submission of a case study. 

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Recommend attendance: for those working with adolescents and adults.

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Level One Certified Therapists can state that their practice is both sensory and attachment Informed:

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They are qualified to:

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  • Clinically assess and analyse children’s stress behavioural patterns and sensory processing patterns.

  • Deliver SAI treatment sessions which address the child’s sensory processing-attachment differences.

  • Deliver the Just Right State Programme for Children and Caregivers.

 

*Therapists who completed SAI Level One training (pre February 2020), do not have to complete the SAI Introduction Course and may proceed to one of the following courses to attain their Foundation Training Certificate: 

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  • 'Attachment: Parent Child Relationships: An Integrative Response to Assessment and Intervention' with Attachment Works 

  • Any of the 'Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM)' courses with the Family Relations Institute

  • 'Child Attachment & Play Assessment Training'  with CAPA

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Transitional arrangements for Level One Certification, introduced in 2020 for Therapists who had already completed Level 1 training, are now closed.

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​SAI Level Two Certification for Therapists

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Requirements:

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​SAI Level Two Certification for Therapists focuses on the co-regulation process of parent/carer child engagement. It involves analysis of stress patterns and the use of standardised assessments of child and adult attachment patterns. Therapists address parents’ and children’s sensory and attachment issues that impede the co-regulation process.

 

This training will involve individual supervision of two case studies of parent child engagement sessions. Duration of supervision for one case study: once every two weeks over a period of 14 weeks. Therapists then proceed to working on a further two single case studies. They will be required to have a check-in review supervision on week 6 of the process, then proceed unsupervised until completion of their case study. If there are any elements of the intervention where the Therapist's practice requires further supervision, the Therapist will be advised accordingly. On successful completion, the Therapist is Certified as an SAI Level 2 Therapist.

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Continual Professional Development Requirements

 

To maintain your SAI certification you will be required once every three years to:

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a) Review a case study with an SAI Accredited Supervisor – 3 hour session.    

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b) Attend an SAI Accredited Online Webinar.

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You will receive a certificate of Professional development on completion of either of these choices. This will be need to be attached to your Level 1 certificate to demonstrate you are meeting continuing Professional development requirements.

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