Research and Resources

Developmental Trauma and the Impact on Bodily Regulation

By Laura Cothay (2025). Published on The Fostering Network’s website.

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Laura has over 15 years of experience working therapeutically with fostering families, and in this guest blog she explores why understanding the link between movement, touch, and emotional wellbeing is so crucial when caring for children and young people in care.

The Impact of Early Adversity on Bodily Regulation

By Jo Robinson and Jenna Broome (2025). Published in BASW’s Professional Social Work Magazine.

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In this article, BUSS^® Practitioners Jo Robinson and Jenna Broome consider how an understanding of disrupted development of the sensorimotor systems can help Social Workers in assessments.

BUSS^® (Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems) with Adolescents

By Katie Wrench (2025). Published in IFCA’s Foster Journal.

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The Irish Foster Care Association’s Journal, Foster, aims to inform IFCA members and those with an involvement in foster care of current issues in foster care and of developments in policy, practice, and research. Through ‘Foster’, IFCA seeks to make an important contribution to the world of fostering by helping to stimulate debate, discussion and development in the field (you can visit their website here for more information).

Two Service Evaluations of LEAPlets^® – An early years programme for children in foster care and adoption, based on the BUSS^® (Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems) Model

By Sarah Lloyd, Natalie Jones, and Danielle Smith (2024). Published in Adoption & Fostering.

https://doi.org/10.1177/03085759241298289

Adoption & Fostering is a quarterly peer reviewed journal which has been at the cutting edge of debate on childcare issues for over 50 years. As the official journal of the CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering Academy, the UK’s leading adoption and fostering charity, the journal supports CoramBAAF’s aims of promoting the highest standards of practice in adoption, fostering and childcare services, to increase public understanding of the issues and to provide an independent voice for children and families, disseminating new research and practice developments, informing and influencing policy-makers, all those responsible for children and young people, and public opinion at large.

An innovative approach to working with children who have experienced developmental trauma: An Introduction to the Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS) Model.

By Sarah Lloyd (2023). Published in Adoption & Fostering.

https://doi.org/10.1177/03085759231174902

Sarah has also joined the Adoption & Fostering Journal for ‘An Introduction to the BUSS^® Model with Sarah Lloyd’, Episode 5 of their podcast.

You can listen here or listen on Spotify.