ARC Framework Worksheet
The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Framework is organized around three primary domains of intervention and identifies eight key treatment targets. A brief overview of these domains and targets is provided below.
Domain | Attachment | Regulation | Competency |
Description | Supporting the caregiving system, working on relational resources for adult caregivers. | Rising awareness and skill in identifying, understanding, tolerating, and managing internal experiences. | Increasing resilient outcomes among youth receiving the intervention. |
Primary targets | Helping caregivers manage their emotional state. Enhancing the caregiver-child relationship. Creating effective, trauma-informed responses to child and adolescent behavior. | Support in developing an awareness and understanding of feelings, body states, and associated thoughts and behaviors. Rising capacity to tolerate and manage physiological and emotional experiences. Developing skills for building relationships. | Increasing opportunity for choice and empowerment. Exploration of identity and development of narrative around key life experiences, including traumatic exposures. |
Reference
ARC (2016). What is ARC? Retrieved from: https://arcframework.org/what-is-arc/, on January 16, 2024.
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