Colby Pearce
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Companion App for Therapeutic Classrooms and alignment with home. A practical guide to Attachment & Attachment Disorder
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Category Archives: Attachment
Managing Our Own Emotions in the Presence of Our Child’s Challenging Behaviors
Managing Our Own Emotions in the Presence of Our Child’s Challenging Behaviors.
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Colby Pearce Online
Dear Followers and Visitors to this site, I have been asked a number of times whether I provide online consultations and webinars in my areas of specialty and interest. Well, I wish to advise that I am willing and gearing … Continue reading →
Reparative Attachment Therapy
Reparative Attachment Therapy is the name used to refer to Colby’s therapeutic approach when treating children who have experienced the devastating effects of abuse, neglect, family violence and loss during their early developmental years. Key elements of Colby’s approach appear … Continue reading →
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Triple-A Model of Therapeutic Care
The Triple-A Model of Therapeutic Care is an evidence-based approach to the care of children who have experienced complex developmental trauma. The Model was developed by Secure Start Principal Clinical Psychologist, Colby Pearce, and represents an integration of knowledge and … Continue reading →
Adopting a balanced view
This short article first appeared in the Blog for The Adoption Social on 21/1/14. I am grateful to the administrators of that site for their interest in my work and my views regarding the care of children. I was born … Continue reading →
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More than positive thinking and a resilient mindset
A child’s resilience requires more than just a “resilient mindset” or “positive thinking”. It requires deeply-held and profound beliefs, formed during infancy and early childhood, that they are a good and capable and deserving person, that adults in a care … Continue reading →
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New thinking and a new approach required with looked-after children
Yesterday I was visited by a six-year-old boy who has a history of family trauma and is being raised by a relative carer. Upon entering my consulting room he immediately sought my box of assorted animals and rifled through it, … Continue reading →
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Eyes are mirrors for a child’s soul
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A gentle method for getting children settled to sleep in their own beds
This was a very popular post that has become somewhat buried in this site, so I thought I would reproduce it here. Enjoy! 🙂 In my practice one of the more common struggles reported by parents and caregivers is getting … Continue reading →
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The significance of touch
If only I knew then what I know now! This sentiment particularly applies to the third in a series of posts on this site about published articles that arose out of the collaboration between Professor Graham Martin and myself between … Continue reading →
Attachment and Resilience 