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Supporting Strong Developmental Outcomes: The case for CARE and Attachment Security
Raising children who have the best chance of achieving their potential involves connection with our task. It involves parenting with intention; thinking about what we are doing, and why. It involves holding the child in our mind; especially their experiences … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed
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Tagged adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfare leadership, fostering, parenting, psychologist, psychology, social worker, trauma aware, trauma informed
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A Short Introduction to Attachment and Resilience
I have maintained this blog site or more than ten years. This will be the 250th post published to it. Given the sheer volume of content I have decided to make a post with links to the posts that I … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, Therapy, Training Programs, trauma informed
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Tagged attachment, attachment theory, child care, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, children's behaviour problems, fostercare, kinshipcare, parenting, psychology, reactive attachment disorder, residential care, resilience, self-care, Social Work, therapeutic, therapeutic care, training, trauma-informed, wellbeing
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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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A common knowledge, language, and approach for parents, professionals, and organisations: The CARE Curriculum
The CARE Curriculum offers a comprehensive approach to the delivery of culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed and -responsive services among families recovering from adverse life and family circumstances, via the delivery of enriched CARE. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Tagged adoption, attachment, attachment theory, childprotection, childwelfare, childwelfareleadership, fostercare, kinshipcare, mentalhealth, psychology, socialcare, socialwork, trauma, traumainformed, traumainformedcare, traumainformedpractice, traumaresponsive
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Five strategies for addressing issues with compliance in children
Noncompliance and defiance are common parenting challenges. This article offers five gentle strategies that address the reason for the behaviour, as well as the behaviour. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed
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Tagged behave, behaviour challenges, challending behaviour, childcare, childwelfare, fostercare, fostercarer, fostering, grandparent, kinshipcare, kinshipcarer, noncompliance, parent, parenting, psychology
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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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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 →
A time of reflection and redirection
It has been more than a month since my last post. This has been a period of significant reflection about career direction and what is both professionally and personally important to me. This period of reflection has been prompted by … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, clinical psychology, psychology, psychotherapy, relational connection, therapeutic care, therapist, trauma-informed
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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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Our own response to the pandemic reflects the experience of maltreated children
Uncertainty, including in relation to our health and the health of our loved ones, our access to basic needs, and what the future holds, is anxiety-evoking. It can leave us preoccupied with accessing basic needs and lead us to behave in ways that increase our chances of being able to achieve needs provision, and feel safe. Uncertainty, coupled with the media coverage of the pandemic, can leave us experiencing ourselves as inadequate, others as threatening and dangerous, and the world as unsafe. The current uncertainty, and its psychological impacts on us, provides an insight into what life is like for children and young people who are recovering from a tough start to life.
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Tagged attachment, child welfare, child welfare leadership, children, Coronavirus, COVID19, mental health, pandemic, psychology, social worker, socialwork, socialworker, trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, traumainformed, traumainformedcare, traumainformedpractice
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