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CARERS must CARE – Lessons on attachment from Colby Pearce
It was such a privilege to be asked recently to write a review for Colby Pearce’s second edition of a ‘Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder’. Colby Pearce is one of the leading experts in attachment and as a … Continue reading →
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Tagged abuse, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist Adelaide, Education, foster care, health, kinship care, mental health, psychology, RAD, residential care, resilience, reviews, Social Care, Social Work, trauma
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Therapeutic Childcare – The CARE Approach
Earlier this year I set about revising and updating A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder. The second edition is available from December 2016. As part of the revision process I considered what we might mean when talking about … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, psychology, residential care, resilience, therapeutic foster care, wellbeing
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Therapeutic CARE and the Triple-A method
As a practising Clinical Psychologist and as a father to three boys I often think of child-rearing as akin to being a farmer who grows crops. The farmer expends significant effort preparing the soil and sowing seeds. Then the farmer waits and … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adelaide child psychologist, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child development, child psychologist, child trauma, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, post adoption support, psychology, residential care, residential childcare, resilience, therapeutic childcare, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic parentng, wellbeing
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Strengths-based therapeutic foster care
Triple-A is an approach to the therapeutic care of children that emphasises human connection. It is relational, practical and rooted in conventional caregiving practices. As such, it is an enrichment programme, as opposed to a wholesale alternative to conventional caregiving … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, fostercare, kinship care, parenting, resilience, wellbeing
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Media Release: South Australian Program Embraced by Foster Carers in Ireland
An Australian-developed program for foster carers is receiving unreserved support in Donegal, Ireland. Known as the Triple-A Model of Therapeutic Care, the program is currently being delivered by Secure Attachment Matters Ireland with support from TUSLA, the Irish Government Child and … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, wellbeing
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Foster Care Enriched
People 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? This is what … Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, Attachment Disorder, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma, foster care, foster care support, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, psychology, therapeutic foster care, wellbeing
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Therapeutic Fostering
Why have Therapeutic Models of Care? In an online survey of carers of ‘looked-after-children’ (defined as children who do not live with a birth parent(s) and are in a relative or kinship care placement, adoptive placement, foster placement or residential care … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment therapy, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child trauma, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, residential care, resilience, wellbeing
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Media Release: Proactive Needs Provision Vital for Recovery From Child Abuse
What follows is a media release for the event at which I spoke on Thursday the 22nd of October in Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. The clip to the right is the article in The Northern Standard that appeared on 31/10/15. PROACTIVE … Continue reading →
Attachment theory made simple
The following is an excerpt from Carr, S. (2013). Attachment in Sport, Exercise and Wellness. Routledge: London and New York (pp 1-2) Some months ago a graduate student came to my office visibly excited after reading the prologue section in … Continue reading →
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Tagged ACEs, athletes, attachment, Attachment Disorder, developmental trauma, exercise, mental health, resilience, sport, therapeutic foster care, trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, wellness
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