SAI Level One Certification for Practitioners

 

Requirements: SAI Foundation Training Certificate, The Just Right State Programme for Children & Parents, The SAI Fidelity Measure, The Use of SAI Assessment and Clinical Formulation Tools, and submission of a Case Study.

 

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

They are qualified to:

Analyse the stress behavioural patterns of children.

Provide clinical intervention using the Just Right State principles. 

Advise Carers and Practitioners on the regulating needs of the child.

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SAI Level Two Certification for Practitioners

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Requirements:

SAI Level One Certification for Practitioners

   Attendance at the following Courses*:

Meaning of the Child Interview (MoTC)

Child Attachment and Play Assessment (CAPA)

The Art of Interviewing and Exploring Issues. 

D-EIS scoring system for the Dyadic Parent-Child MIM

 * See training links below

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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 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

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Requirements: SAI Foundation Training Certificate*, or; SAI Adolescents & Adults and one of the specified Attachment courses*, and; completion of all SAI Therapist Clinical Practice Modules. This includes submission of Case Studies to illustrate competence in the areas of clinical assessment and treatment. 

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

They are qualified to:

Analyse the stress behavioural patterns and sensory processing patterns of children using the SAAP and SAI Trauma Informed Clinical Observations tools.

Provide clinical intervention using SAI Principles. 

Advise Carers and Professionals on the regulating needs of the child.

Provide advice on Enriched Environment Provision.

 

*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: 

- '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:

SAI Level One Certification for Therapists

   Attendance at the following Courses:

Meaning of the Child Interview (MoTC)*

Child Attachment and Play Assessment (CAPA)*

The Art of Interviewing and Exploring Issues. 

D-EIS scoring system for the Dyadic Parent-Child MIM

  

 * See training links below

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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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Training Links

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Child Attachment and Play Assessment (CAPA) Courses

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Meaning of the Child Interview (MoTC)

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Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation.

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Continual Professional Development Requirements

 

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

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

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b) Attend an SAI Accredited Online Webinar.

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.