Rikke Ludvigsen og jeg, Wenche Hovland, ønsker å lage flere podkastepisoder for Kafé Student, basert på Rikkes bok Professional’s Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children – The Healing Circle.
I denne episode 2 går vi i dybden på sikkerhetsplanlegging – hvordan trygghet kan gjøres konkret, håndterbar og bærekraftig i barns hverdagsliv. I samtalen med Rikke Ludvigsen presenterer hun sin modell, The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, der det første og mest grunnleggende spørsmålet alltid er: Er barnet trygt? Når svaret er nei, må arbeidet starte med å etablere umiddelbar sikkerhet og utarbeide en sikkerhetsplan før man kan gå videre med traumebearbeiding.
Gjennom historien om Sam og Oliver gir episoden et praksisnært innblikk i hvordan sikkerhetsplanlegging ikke er et dokument, men en kontinuerlig prosess som bygges gjennom relasjoner – i tett samarbeid mellom barn, foreldre, barnevernstjenesten og familiens private nettverk. Episoden illustrerer hvordan umiddelbar sikkerhet kan etableres raskt, hvordan nettverk mobiliseres, og hvordan tydelige bekymringsutsagn, minimumskrav og sikkerhetsmål kan skape et felles utgangspunkt – også i situasjoner preget av uenighet og benektelse i familien.
Et sentralt budskap i episoden er at samarbeid i møter ikke er det samme som trygghet i barnets hverdagsliv. Derfor er tett og kontinuerlig oppfølging avgjørende, særlig i høyrisikosaker. Vi får også høre hvordan foreldre kan tilbys reelle valg og inviteres inn i samarbeid – selv når situasjonen innebærer press og alvorlige konsekvenser dersom de velger å ikke samarbeide.
Til slutt retter episoden søkelyset mot barns medvirkning i sikkerhetsplanlegging. Rikke beskriver hvordan verktøy som Sikkerhetshuset kan hjelpe barn med å uttrykke, gjennom ord og bilder, hva som oppleves som trygt for dem, hvem som er trygge voksne i deres liv, og hvordan barn kan si ifra når noe ikke er som det skal. Episoden tydeliggjør at trygghet ikke skapes alene, men i fellesskap – og at sikkerhetsplanlegging er fundamentet som gjør videre traumebearbeiding mulig.
Rikke Ludvigsen and I, Wenche Hovland, would like to create several podcast episodes for Kafé Student, based on Rikke’s book Professional’s Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children – The Healing Circle
In this episode 2, we take an in-depth look at safety planning – how safety can be made concrete, manageable, and sustainable in children’s everyday lives. In the conversation with Rikke Ludvigsen, she presents her model, The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, in which the first and most fundamental question is always: Is the child safe? When the answer is no, the work must begin with establishing immediate safety and developing a safety plan before moving on to trauma processing.
Through the story of Sam and Oliver, the episode provides a practice-based insight into how safety planning is not a document, but a continuous process built through relationships – in close collaboration between children, parents, child welfare services, and the family’s private network. The episode illustrates how immediate safety can be established quickly, how networks are mobilised, and how clear worry statements minimum requirements, and safety goals can create a shared point of departure – even in situations marked by disagreement and denial within the family.
A central message of the episode is that collaboration in meetings is not the same as safety in everyday life. This is why close and continuous follow-up is essential, particularly in high-risk cases. We also hear how parents can be offered genuine choices and invited into collaboration – even when the situation involves pressure and serious consequences if they choose not to engage.
Finally, the episode focuses on children’s participation in safety planning. Rikke describes how tools such as the Safety House can help children express, through words and images, what feels safe to them, who the safe adults in their lives are, and how children can communicate when something is not right. The episode makes clear that safety is not created alone, but collectively – and that safety planning is the foundation that makes further trauma processing possible.
In this episode 2, we take an in-depth look at safety planning – how safety can be made concrete, manageable, and sustainable in children’s everyday lives. In the conversation with Rikke Ludvigsen, she presents her model, The Circle of Safety and Reconnection, in which the first and most fundamental question is always: Is the child safe? When the answer is no, the work must begin with establishing immediate safety and developing a safety plan before moving on to trauma processing.
Through the story of Sam and Oliver, the episode provides a practice-based insight into how safety planning is not a document, but a continuous process built through relationships – in close collaboration between children, parents, child welfare services, and the family’s private network. The episode illustrates how immediate safety can be established quickly, how networks are mobilised, and how clear statements of concern, minimum requirements, and safety goals can create a shared point of departure – even in situations marked by disagreement and denial within the family.
A central message of the episode is that collaboration in meetings is not the same as safety in everyday life. This is why close and continuous follow-up is essential, particularly in high-risk cases. We also hear how parents can be offered genuine choices and invited into collaboration – even when the situation involves pressure and serious consequences if they choose not to engage.
Finally, the episode focuses on children’s participation in safety planning. Rikke describes how tools such as the Safety House can help children express, through words and images, what feels safe to them, who the safe adults in their lives are, and how children can communicate when something is not right. The episode makes clear that safety is not created alone, but collectively – and that safety planning is the foundation that makes further trauma processing possible.
Bidragsytere og kreditering
Redaktører:
Wenche Hovland, Universitetet i Stavanger
Sarah Hean, Universitetet i Stavanger
Rikke Ludvigsen ( 2024 ) A Professional’s Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle av Rikke Ludvigsen, Routledge
Transkripsjon av episoden
