Core Sensitivities Reflection

Core Sensitivities Reflection is a practitioner-supported Circle of Security reflection tool for practitioners and caregivers. It helps identify caregiver sensitivity themes, the child cues or caregiving situations that activate them, their impact on responses, and support or coaching needs.

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

What It Captures

It captures sensitivity themes, activating child cues or caregiving situations, response impact, and support or coaching needs.

Shared Completion

The caregiver contributes reflection content while the practitioner facilitates and helps identify clinically useful support focus.

Limits

The tool does not invent sensitivity categories, score sensitivities, assign diagnoses, or interpret personality.

Does this tool include fixed sensitivity categories?

Not from the supplied specification. Exact categories are unresolved, so the product must not invent a taxonomy.

Can more than one theme be entered?

Yes. The product must support multiple profile entries, each organized by theme, activation context, response impact, and support need.

Does the profile produce a score?

No. The profile is descriptive and does not score sensitivities or rank caregivers.

What if a caregiver can identify a situation but not a theme?

The entry can remain partial; the missing theme should be visible rather than auto-labeled by the system.