Colby Pearce
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Supporting consistent Therapeutic Caregiving -
Companion App for Therapeutic Classrooms and alignment with home. A practical guide to Attachment & Attachment Disorder
Resilient Kids
Secure Start – Trauma Informed
Self-Paced Learning Modules
The CARE Curriculum
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Category Archives: Trauma Informed Schools
Children Don’t Need Perfect Adults. They Need Predictable Care
The Most Important Thing Traumatised Children Need Is Not What Most Systems Prioritise Across my career in out-of-home care, education, and therapeutic practice, I have become increasingly convinced of something uncomfortable: We consistently underestimate the impact of inconsistency on children. … Continue reading →
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The 4 Simple Habits that Can Change a Child’s Behaviour (Without Punishment)
(Professionals – support for your work with parents to maintain a therapeutic care environment for children and young people recovering from a tough start to life.) The AURA by Secure Start App supports daily reflection and attention to four key … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, early learning, Fostering, kinship care, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, attachment, child psychologist, family, fostercare, fostering, health, kinship care, mental health, parenting, resilience, Social Work, trauma informed
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Getting Behaviour Management Right for Deeply Hurt and Troubled Children and Young People: A Triple-A Approach
Recently, I was invited to deliver training to staff of a local children’s services organisation. I chose to deliver the training on a reflective process for understanding and responding therapeutically to behaviours of concern exhibited by children and young people … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, attachment theory, Colby Pearce, Donald Winnicott, foster care, John Bowlby, kinship care, OOHC, out of home care, parenting, residential child care, school, social worker, teacher, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed school
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How can I tell what need or experience is the real reason for the child’s behaviour?
Watch this video to hear hear me talk about the real reasons for behaviours of concern exhibited by children and young people recovering from a tough start to life. You will hear about three key reflective questions to ask and … Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, attachment, behaviour, child psychologist, child welfare, children, childrens behaviour, Education, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, relationships, Social Care, trauma informed
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What is Trauma Informed Practice? The CARE Curriculum
In this video, I lay out the key reflections embedded the CARE Curriculum, which are integral to facilitating an outcome where our children and young people experiences themselves as worthy and capable, others as responsive and trustworthy, and their world … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment theory, Child Protection, child welfare, foster care, kinship care, parenting, Social Care, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma informed school
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Self-Paced Learning Modules
Online, Self-Paced Dear followers of this blog. For much of the past twenty-eight years working in child protection I have developed and delivered content designed to support the endeavours of carers and professionals who interact with children and young people … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, attachmentmatters, childdevelopment, childprotection, childwelfare, childwelfareleadership, educator, fostercare, kinshipcare, mentalhealth, schools, socialcare, socialworker, teacher
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Why do my child’s support professionals say that behaviour management doesn’t work?
Conventional responses to behaviours of concern, such as reward and punishment strategies, are widely considered to be ineffective in addressing the complex and challenging behaviours exhibited by children and young people who have experienced complex, relational, or early/developmental trauma. This … Continue reading →
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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Achieving best outcomes from care
Twenty-seven years continuous work in child protection and child welfare, including ongoing work with young adults who have transitioned from Care, has taught me some extremely valuable lessons about long-term outcomes of a childhood spent in State Care. In particular, … Continue reading →
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Tagged childprotection, childwelfare, childwelfareleadership, fostercare, kinshipcare, parenting, psychology, socialcare, socialwork, teachers, traumainformed, traumainformedschools
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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 →
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Attachment and Resilience 