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Your child’s CARE requirements through the years
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child development, development, fostercare, kinshipcare, learning, parenting, psychology, relationships, resilience, wellbeing
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The CARE Therapeutic Framework
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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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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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Foster Carers report Model of Care Interesting and Helpful
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is an independent authority established to drive high-quality and safe care for people using health and social care services in Ireland. HIQA monitors foster care services against the National Standards for Foster Care, … Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, development, foster care, foster care support, health, kinship care, mental health, Model of Care, psychology, residential care, Social Care, sport, therapeutic fostering
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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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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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What did the man do?
I am fascinated by videos such as these, of otherwise untamed species of animal developing a special bond with humans. I am particularly interested when, as in the case of the video below, the member of the otherwise untamed … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAA caregiving, AAA parenting, Adelaide, adelaide child psychologist, Adelaide Psychologist, adoption, attachment, childcare, foster care, foster care support, kinship care, parenting, post adoption, psychology, residenmtial care, teachers, therapeutic foster care
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Punishment is Problematic
People do not act for no reason. They may act in response to an idea. They may act in response to an emotion. They may act in response to a need that requires satisfaction. They may act because the way … Continue reading →
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Tagged behaviour management, Child Psychiology, foster care, fostering, kinship care, mental health, parenting, psychology, residential care, schools, Social Care, Social Work, teachers, Understanding, validation, wellbeing, Wisdom
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