Category Archives: Trauma Informed Schools

When Punishment is Problematic

Posted on January 19, 2019 by

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 →

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Trauma-Informed: Adopting a Balanced View

Posted on January 16, 2019 by

Eyes are mirrors for a child’s soul. What do children see in your eyes? Continue reading →

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Reactive Attachment Disorder and the Looking-Glass-Self

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Epilogue In his 1902 publication, Human Nature and the Social Order, Charles Horton Cooley introduced the concept of the Looking Glass Self to portray his idea that an individual’s perception of themselves develops in association with how they experience others … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Four Mice: An Attachment Story

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Following the popularity of the allegory, A Tale of Three Mice, which formed the prologue to the first edition of A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder, when I was asked by my publisher to prepare a Second Edition … Continue reading →

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Trauma Informed Classrooms : Four Essential Activities

Posted on December 14, 2018 by

Hi everyone. I hope you don’t mind, but I have decided to update and re-post this blog from a little while ago. It was a bit buried in all of the other posts on this site, and the information is … Continue reading →

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The Hawthorne Effect in Schools

Posted on September 24, 2012 by

The notion of the Hawthorne Effect is derived from a series of experiments conducted in the 1920s and 1930s at the Hawthorne works of the Western Electric Company. In these experiments, the experimenters manipulated aspects of the working conditions of some employees … Continue reading →

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A tale of four children and their trip to the adventure playground: A resilience story

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

This following story represents an allegory for the approach to promoting resilience in children as found in the prologue to: Pearce, C. A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2011 Once upon a time there were … Continue reading →

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