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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 →
Posted in Attachment, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, psychology, self-concept, self-esteem, strengths, strengths based practice, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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A Tale of Four Mice: An Attachment Story
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 →
Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, Learning Theory, Operant Conditioning, reactive attachment disorder, Skinner, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Therapeutic Parenting : What is it?
Across a career spanning almost 25 years I have spent much of my time engaging with caregivers of deeply hurt and troubled children.
Caregivers of these children often ask: What can I do to help this child?
This is an interesting question.
Which of the following statements best reflects the answer you would like to receive to this question, were you asking it? … Continue reading →
Trauma Informed Care: The CARE Therapeutic Framework
The CARE Therapeutic Framework (Now known as The CARE Curriculum): A Whole-Of-Service Training and Implementation Programme Author/Developer: Colby Pearce, Clinical Psychologist The CARE Therapeutic Framework[1] is an evidence-informed, strengths-based approach. It draws attention to conventional aspects of caregiving and relating … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, Education, howto, learning, oppositional defiant disorder, reactive attachment disorder, resilience, therapeutic care, training, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed care principles, trauma informed practice
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Trauma Informed Classrooms : Four Essential Activities
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 →
Posted in Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, classroom, Education, howto, learning, oppositional defiant disorder, reactive attachment disorder, resilience, school, teacher, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed care principles, trauma informed practice
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Four Essential Enrichment Activities to Promote Recovery at School from Interpersonal Trauma
Greet the child before they do anything to initiate engagement with you. Greeting children in this way offers them the experience that they are in your thoughts, that they are worthy and that you are accessible. This is necessary as … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, adelaide child psychologist, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, Education, educator, fostercare, fostering, mental health, parenting, post adoption suppprt, resilience, schools, Social Care, therapeutic foster care, wellbeing
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Therapeutic caregiving – why conventional is vital
We know that . . . We do that . . . These are all-too-familiar responses to endeavours to promote conventional aspects of caregiving and relating as part of a therapeutic approach to the care of children who are experiencing, … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting, Schools, Trauma, Wellbeing
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist Adelaide, childrens behaviour, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, residential care, Social Care, therapeutic foster care, trauma
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Parental CARE: Implications for Attachment Security and Disorders
Parental CARE: Implications for Attachment Security and Disorders A webinar with Colby Pearce Saturday 20 May 2017, 10.00am – 1.00pm, London, UK time In the same way that an infant’s attachments develop in association with their experience of who cares for … Continue reading →
Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting
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Tagged adelaide child psychologist, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment therapy, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, psychology, residential care, resilience, therapeutic care, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic fostering, wellbeing
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