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Category Archives: AAA Caregiving
Tantrums: Eight management strategies to keep in mind
Please find eight strategies to keep in mind when responding to a a tantrum exhibited by a child in your care. These are meant to be received as practical first steps. Continue reading →
A Gentle Method for Getting Children to Sleep Part Two
This is a follow-up to the very popular article A Gentle Method for Getting Children to Sleep in their Own Beds. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting
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Tagged adoption, adoptive parent, foster parent, fostering, kinship carer, parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed care
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When Punishment is Problematic
People do not act for no reason.
They may act in response to an idea.
They may act in response to an emotion. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged behaviour management, behaviour problems, connection, meltdowns, oppositional defiant disorder, oppositionality, social connectedness, tantrums, wellbeing
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Therapeutic Parenting : What is it?
Across a career spanning almost 25 years I have spent much of my time engaging with caregivers of deeply hurt and troubled children.
Caregivers of these children often ask: What can I do to help this child?
This is an interesting question.
Which of the following statements best reflects the answer you would like to receive to this question, were you asking it? … Continue reading →
Understanding, Connection and Wellbeing
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Posted on September 2, 2018 by colbypearce
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, attachment, depression, foster care, fostering, kinship care, mental health, mentalhealth, parenting, psychology, resilience, wellbeing
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Your child’s CARE requirements through the years
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Posted on August 18, 2018 by colbypearce
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child development, development, fostercare, kinshipcare, learning, parenting, psychology, relationships, resilience, wellbeing
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Therapeutic caregiving – why conventional is vital
We know that . . . We do that . . . These are all-too-familiar responses to endeavours to promote conventional aspects of caregiving and relating as part of a therapeutic approach to the care of children who are experiencing, … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting, Schools, Trauma, Wellbeing
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist Adelaide, childrens behaviour, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, residential care, Social Care, therapeutic foster care, trauma
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Therapeutic Childcare – The CARE Approach
Earlier this year I set about revising and updating A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder. The second edition is available from December 2016. As part of the revision process I considered what we might mean when talking about … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, psychology, residential care, resilience, therapeutic foster care, wellbeing
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Therapeutic CARE and the Triple-A method
As a practising Clinical Psychologist and as a father to three boys I often think of child-rearing as akin to being a farmer who grows crops. The farmer expends significant effort preparing the soil and sowing seeds. Then the farmer waits and … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adelaide child psychologist, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child development, child psychologist, child trauma, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, post adoption support, psychology, residential care, residential childcare, resilience, therapeutic childcare, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic parentng, wellbeing
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Strengths-based therapeutic foster care
Triple-A is an approach to the therapeutic care of children that emphasises human connection. It is relational, practical and rooted in conventional caregiving practices. As such, it is an enrichment programme, as opposed to a wholesale alternative to conventional caregiving … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, fostercare, kinship care, parenting, resilience, wellbeing
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