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Tag Archives: Attachment Disorder
Intentional parenting benefits you and your kids
With lots of things that command our attention these days, it is natural to approach aspects of our life and roles in the easiest manner possible. In Psychology, automaticity is concept used to describe times in which we perform a … Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, educators, fostercare, fostercarer, fostercarers, grandparents, kinshipcarers, parent, parenting, parents, socialcare
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All relationships are important for attachment security
All attachments are significant. All influence our approach to life, roles and relatedness. This is particularly important in child welfare and related endeavours where the focus is facilitating recovery from a tough start to life and traumatic relationships, including through the promotion of attachment security. Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, child care, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfare leadership, trauma, trauma informed, trauma responsive
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An allegory about attachment theory
A Tale of Three Mice: An Attachment Story continues to attract attention among other writers looking for a short allegory introducing Attachment Theory. This week from a publisher of a book about child development. I updated the story in the … Continue reading →
Option of Last Report: Providing Therapy to Deeply Troubled Young People
I was talking to an overseas colleague today about the provision of psychotherapy services to young people who are in the most desperate of circumstances. This includes young people who are no longer able to be cared for in a … Continue reading →
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 →
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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 →
Happy Birthday
A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder turns ten years old this year! Continue reading →
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Why clinicians use play in therapy with children
In response to the statement that he or she (the clinician) ‘just plays with the children’ I give you the following reasons why play is important. Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Attachment Disorder, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child trauma, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, parenting, trauma informed, wellbeing
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Trauma-informed in South Australia: the Kinship CARE Project
As at September 2018 there were 1717 children in kinship care placements in South Australia, representing 46% of all children in out-of-home care with an authority for placement (Department for Child Protection Reporting and Statistics). Year-by-year statistics for the period … Continue reading →
Reactive Attachment Disorder and the Looking-Glass-Self
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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