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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Tag Archives: attachment
Kindness is magic
Children form significant, lifelong memories of their interactions with the various adults who enter their lives, including their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers and so on. Those memories, and the experiences from which they derive, shape the beliefs children … Continue reading →
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Tagged acceptance, adelaide child psychologist, attachment, child psychologist Adelaide, children, kindness, resilience, wellbeing, welness
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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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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, anxiety, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment therapy, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, childrens behaviour, fostering, kinship care, parenting, residential care, Secure Start
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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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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, attachment therapy, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, development, fostering, kinship care, parenting, residential care, Secure Start
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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 →
Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Children's Behaviour, Fostering, Parenting, Schools, Trauma
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, anxiety, attachment, Attachment Disorder, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child trauma, childrens behaviour, fostering, kinship care, parenting, wellbeing
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Compendiums of Attachment-Informed Articles
Dear Visitors to this Site, I have recently collated a number of blog posts into two “compendiums”, which appear in Menu’s on the right hand side of this site. One compendium includes articles relating to the care, management and treatment … Continue reading →
Eyes are mirrors for a child’s soul
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, attachment therapy, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, parenting, resilience
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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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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, anxiety, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child trauma, children's sleep, childrens behaviour, fostering, parenting, sleep
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Guess how much I love you
Guess How Much I love you, by Sam McBratney, was a favourite bedtime story for my youngest son. Such was its impact that the final line “I love you right up to the moon . . . and back” became … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, child psychologist, children, children's needs, parenting, relationships, Secure Start
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Attachment and Resilience 