Colby Pearce
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Children Don’t Need Perfect Adults. They Need Predictable Care
The Most Important Thing Traumatised Children Need Is Not What Most Systems Prioritise Across my career in out-of-home care, education, and therapeutic practice, I have become increasingly convinced of something uncomfortable: We consistently underestimate the impact of inconsistency on children. … Continue reading →
Posted in AURA Apps, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, attachment, AURAapp, Education, fostercare, fostering, healing, kinship care, mental health, parenting, relationships, trauma informed
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Enhancing Therapeutic Environments with AURA by Secure Start
For many years now I have been thinking about the usefulness of having an app on the phones of parents and carers of children I am working with, which reminds them of important aspects of maintaining a therapeutic environment in … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Therapy, trauma informed, trauma informed care
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Tagged adoption, ai, attachment, Education, family, foster care, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, Social Care, social care leadership, technology, trauma informed
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Update About Me
In this post I share with the reader a statement of my competencies and experience that I bring to my work and any role I am engaged for. It is also represented on the About Me page of this site. … Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, attachment, child psychologist, Education, fostercare, fostering, health, kinship care, mental health, parenting, psychology, Social Care, trauma informed
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How can I tell what need or experience is the real reason for the child’s behaviour?
Watch this video to hear hear me talk about the real reasons for behaviours of concern exhibited by children and young people recovering from a tough start to life. You will hear about three key reflective questions to ask and … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, attachment, behaviour, child psychologist, child welfare, children, childrens behaviour, Education, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, relationships, Social Care, trauma informed
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Therapeutic Care is all about your AURA
Dear Followers, Just bringing to your attention some recent videos I have uploaded to YouTube. The first one you may not have seen is an attempt to delineate responding to the behaviours and responding to the need/reason, using the common … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, Education, fostercare, howto, kinshipcare, parenting, school, socialcare, teachers, traumainformed
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Responding therapeutically to complex and challenging behaviours: A Triple-A Approach
Yesterday, I finished preparing this training package for delivery by my trained trainers in Ireland. It includes three PowerPoint presentations, comprehensive trainer notes (scripts and delivery notes) for each session, comprehensive participant handbooks (x3), and various other resources for use … Continue reading →
Practice alignment: How important is it in child welfare?
A child leaves their placement to attend school, where acceptance and belonging are contingent on adhering to the school’s behaviour expectations. They leave school to go to sports practice, where acceptance and belonging are contingent on being good enough to … Continue reading →
Trauma-informed training for foster, adoptive, and kinship carers
This morning I read an interesting narrative review of fifteen evaluation studies of trauma-informed care training for foster and adoptive parents (and kinship carers): Lotty, M, Bantry-White, E, & Dunn-Galvin, A, (2021) Trauma-informed care psychoeducational group-based interventions for foster carers … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, training, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, attachment theory, child development, Child Protection, child psychologist, child welfare, Education, foster care, kinship care, psychoeducation, psychology, schools, trauma aware, trauma informed, trauma responsive
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Theory of Accessibility to Needs Provision
Below is a statement that reflects the third ‘A’ in the Triple-A Model – Accessibility (to needs provision). It captures my thoughts and my response when I am talking to caregivers about their experience of the behaviour of a child … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged attachment, Child Protection, child protection week, child welfare, child welfare leadership, childcare, children, Education, educators, fostercare, grandparents, kinshipcare, parenting, psychology, relativecare, schools, socialcare, teachers, trauma informed, trauma informed classroom, trauma informed practice, traumainformedcare
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Connected Classrooms that CARE: Supporting children recovering from a tough start to life in an era of COVID-19
In this, my third major release during this COVID-19 period, I have turned my mind to the support of children and young people who are recovering from a tough start to life at school. Written for teachers and other education … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, child welfare, children, classroom, Education, educational psychologist, educator, educators, psychologist, psychology, school, school psychologist, schools, Social Work, social worker, teacher, teachers, trauma informed, trauma informed classroom, trauma informed school, trauma recovery, trauma responsive, wellbeing
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Attachment and Resilience 