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Originally posted on Attachment and Resilience:
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…

Originally posted on Attachment and Resilience:
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…

Perhaps the most little known and understood aspect of childhood trauma is the impact inadequate needs provision has on the child’s perception of how their basic human needs will be met in future, and their associated actions to satisfy their … Continue reading →

This is another of my older posts that has become somewhat buried in this site. I thought I might give it a new lease on life as the message is critical to understanding preoccupied and demanding behaviours in children. Be … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Attachment and Resilience:
This shit of a kid has been married for more than twenty years. This shit of a kid has three happy, healthy, confident children. This shit of a kid was the first member of his paternal family in living…

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Originally posted on Attachment and Resilience:
This is a post for those adults who relate to children who have experienced trauma in their primary attachment relationship(s); whether you may be their parent, relative carer, kinship carer, adoptive parent, foster parent,…