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Category Archives: Attachment
Theory of Accessibility to Needs Provision
Below is a statement that reflects the third ‘A’ in the Triple-A Model – Accessibility (to needs provision). It captures my thoughts and my response when I am talking to caregivers about their experience of the behaviour of a child … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Child Protection, child protection week, child welfare, child welfare leadership, childcare, children, Education, educators, fostercare, grandparents, kinshipcare, parenting, psychology, relativecare, schools, socialcare, teachers, trauma informed, trauma informed classroom, trauma informed practice, traumainformedcare
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Parenting in Tough Times
In these tough times, it is important to reflect on these truths. Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, adopter, adoption, attachment, child welfare, childwelfare, Coronavirus, COVID19, fostercarer, fostering, grandparents, kinship care, kinship carer, kinshipcare, kinshipcarer, parenting, post adoption support, Social Care, socialwork, therapeutic parenting, trauma informed, trauma recovery, trauma responsive, traumainformed, traumainformedcare
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What is ‘good’ parenting and caregiving?
With the uptake of strengths-based approaches to child welfare practice in Australia and related child protection jurisdictions in Europe and North America, it is timely to consider what is ‘good’ parenting and caregiving. In this article I briefly introduce a … Continue reading →
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The Aqua Balloon: An allegory about growth and love from the psychology consulting room
In my therapeutic work with children and young people I incorporate play activities in order for them to experience themselves in a way that challenges existing unhelpful ideas. My intent is to support and strengthen an alternative self-concept that is … Continue reading →
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Tagged child development, childcare, children, early years, educator, educators, fostercare, fostercarer, kinshipcare, kinshipcarer, parent, parenting, psychology, resilience, socialcare, trauma informed, wellbeing
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Therapeutic Parenting – The CARE Curriculum
Since I began updating A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder in early 2016, the CARE Therapeutic Framework is the name I have used when referring to content and strategies associated with the CARE Model (Consistency, Accessibility, Responsiveness, Emotional … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, child development, child welfare, childcare, early learning, Education, educator, kinship care matters, kinshipcare, kinshipcarematters, kinshipcarer, kinshipcarersmatter, mental health, post adoption support, residential care, residential childcare, resilience, self care, socialcare, teacher, therapeutic fostercare, therapeutic fostering, therapeutic parenting, wellbeing
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Raising Kids Who Have High and Complex Needs – The Importance of Self Care
Self-care supports wellbeing that sustains us through tough times and our success in the task or role we are performing. Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety, child development, children, parenting, resilience, self-care, trauma informed, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive, wellbeing
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How does parenting influence attachment: The CARE Model
Consider infants. They are not born with a sophisticated language system. They cannot successfully be reasoned with about who their parents are and, therefore, who they should form an attachment to, and who not to. Rather, they form an attachment … Continue reading →
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What is Attachment Disorder?
Over the last three decades, the term ‘attachment disorder’ has entered into common usage among professionals and carers who interact with children who display markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate relatedness to others. With greater awareness of the consequences of attachment … Continue reading →
What is Attachment?
‘Attachment’ is a term used to describe the dependency relationship children develop towards their primary caregivers. In ordinary circumstances, an infant’s emerging attachment to their primary caregivers begins to show during the latter half of their first year post-birth, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ainsworth, attachment, attachment theory, Bowlby, child development, psychology, resilience, Strange Situation, wellbeing
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Parenting
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Tagged child development, parenthood, parenting, psychology, resilience, wellbeing
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Attachment and Resilience 