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Kinship CARE Project Carer Handbook
The Kinship CARE Project is a dedicated endeavour to support kinship carers in South Australia who are looking after children for whom the Department for Child Protection has an authority to place. For a limited time, I am offering organisations that support kinship carers access to the Kinship CARE Project Carer Handbook via PDF download. Continue reading →
Childhood Trauma Fact Sheets for Early Learning Educators
I am pleased to be able to make available three fact sheets for early learning educators. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, early learning, Schools, Training Programs, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged attachment, behaviour, child care, children, early learning, educator, educators, preschool, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive, wellbeing
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How does parenting influence attachment: The CARE Model
Consider infants. They are not born with a sophisticated language system. They cannot successfully be reasoned with about who their parents are and, therefore, who they should form an attachment to, and who not to. Rather, they form an attachment … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, trauma informed
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, child development, parenting, psychology, resilience
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What is Attachment Disorder?
Over the last three decades, the term ‘attachment disorder’ has entered into common usage among professionals and carers who interact with children who display markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate relatedness to others. With greater awareness of the consequences of attachment … Continue reading →
What is Attachment?
‘Attachment’ is a term used to describe the dependency relationship children develop towards their primary caregivers. In ordinary circumstances, an infant’s emerging attachment to their primary caregivers begins to show during the latter half of their first year post-birth, and … Continue reading →
Posted in Attachment, Parenting
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Tagged Ainsworth, attachment, attachment theory, Bowlby, child development, psychology, resilience, Strange Situation, wellbeing
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We Love Collaborating
Secure Start® is looking to collaborate with organisations who share our vision of supporting happy, connected children. Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child care, early learning, foster care, kinship care, Model of Care, model of practice, residential care, resilience, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic parenting, trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive schools
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A Short Introduction to the Kinship CARE Project
Access a PDF of the full article here. In South Australia, forty-six percent of children in out-of-home care with an authority to place are in a kinship care placement. Kinship care is the largest form of out-of-home care in South … Continue reading →
Posted in kinship care, training, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged attachment, howto, kinship care, kinship care matters, kinship carer, psychology, relationships, therapeutic care, training, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Happy Birthday
A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder turns ten years old this year! Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, reactive attachment disorder, trauma
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How to achieve real progress in addressing childhood trauma
In the next few days I will be releasing a resource for supporting trauma-informed practice in schools. The resource complements the Triple-A Model of Therapeutic Care and the CARE Therapeutic Framework, which are currently being implemented in Australia and Ireland … Continue reading →
Posted in Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged ACEs, attachment, attachment trauma, developmental trauma, Education, teacher, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed care principles, trauma informed practice
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We All Need CARE to Thrive
Something different – a short video about the CARE Therapeutic Framework. Let me know what you think! If you like this post, please subscribe to this blog to receive an email notification when other practical ideas and guidance is published. … Continue reading →


