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Category Archives: Training Programs
Child Welfare Intervention Outcomes: What we know and what we see
What outcomes do you expect to see as a result of my service provision? This is a question I routinely ask in my work. Put another way: These are, perhaps, the fundamental questions that get at the hopes of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfare leadership, foster care, kinship care, psychologist, psychology, schools, Social Care, Social Work, socialworker, trauma informed
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What does my child’s recovery from early trauma look like?
Anyone who has played Spotto (Spot the yellow car) with children knows that there are many more yellow cars on the road than you typically notice when driving. Similarly, when playing I Spy there are many more things starting with … Continue reading →
A Short Introduction to Attachment and Resilience
I have maintained this blog site or more than ten years. This will be the 250th post published to it. Given the sheer volume of content I have decided to make a post with links to the posts that I … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, Therapy, Training Programs, trauma informed
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Tagged attachment, attachment theory, child care, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, children's behaviour problems, fostercare, kinshipcare, parenting, psychology, reactive attachment disorder, residential care, resilience, self-care, Social Work, therapeutic, therapeutic care, training, trauma-informed, wellbeing
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Trauma-informed training for foster, adoptive, and kinship carers
This morning I read an interesting narrative review of fifteen evaluation studies of trauma-informed care training for foster and adoptive parents (and kinship carers): Lotty, M, Bantry-White, E, & Dunn-Galvin, A, (2021) Trauma-informed care psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, training, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, attachment theory, child development, Child Protection, child psychologist, child welfare, Education, foster care, kinship care, psychoeducation, psychology, schools, trauma aware, trauma informed, trauma responsive
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A common knowledge, language, and approach for parents, professionals, and organisations: The CARE Curriculum
The CARE Curriculum offers a comprehensive approach to the delivery of culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed and -responsive services among families recovering from adverse life and family circumstances, via the delivery of enriched CARE. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged adoption, attachment, attachment theory, childprotection, childwelfare, childwelfareleadership, fostercare, kinshipcare, mentalhealth, psychology, socialcare, socialwork, trauma, traumainformed, traumainformedcare, traumainformedpractice, traumaresponsive
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All relationships are important for attachment security
All attachments are significant. All influence our approach to life, roles and relatedness. This is particularly important in child welfare and related endeavours where the focus is facilitating recovery from a tough start to life and traumatic relationships, including through the promotion of attachment security. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, child care, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfare leadership, trauma, trauma informed, trauma responsive
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Kinship CARE
Kinship CARE is a comprehensive training package for trauma-informed care and practice among kinship carers and professionals who support them. Kinship CARE is tailored to the experience and training needs of kinship carers. Kinship CARE recognises that, for kinship carers, … Continue reading →
Posted in kinship care, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged Child Protection, child welfare, kinship care, kinship care matters, kinship carers, kinshipcarer, psychology, Social Care, social workers, socialwork social worker, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma recovery, trauma responsive
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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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Tagged assets, Child Protection, child welfare, parenting, psychologist, psychology, Social Work, socialworker, strengths, strengths based, strengths based practice, trauma informed, trauma informed practice, trauma responsive, trauma sensitive
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Kinship CARE Project: New Beginnings
The Kinship CARE Project is an initiative of Secure Start®. At Secure Start, we believe that Kinship Carers make a highly valuable contribution to the care of children in need, and to society. Yet, kinship carers do not always get … Continue reading →
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Posted in kinship care, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged attachment, child development, development, kinshipcare, kinshipcarematters, kinshipcarer, therapeutic care, traumainformed, traumainformedcare, traumarecovery, traumasensitive
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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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Attachment and Resilience 