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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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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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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 →
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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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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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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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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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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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Upcoming presentations in Port Pirie
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, abuse, adelaide child psychologist, adoption, anxiety, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment therapy, attachment trauma, Child Abuse, Child Protection, child psychologist, child psychologist Adelaide, child trauma
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Attachment and Resilience 