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Parental CARE: Implications for Attachment Security and Disorders

Posted on April 26, 2017 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting | 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 | Leave a comment

CARERS must CARE – Lessons on attachment from Colby Pearce

Posted on April 20, 2017 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, Fostering | 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 | Leave a comment

Foster Carers report Model of Care Interesting and Helpful

Posted on April 8, 2017 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting, Trauma | Tagged adoption, development, foster care, foster care support, health, kinship care, mental health, Model of Care, psychology, residential care, Social Care, sport, therapeutic fostering | Leave a comment

Therapeutic Childcare – The CARE Approach

Posted on September 23, 2016 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, Parenting | 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 | Leave a comment

Therapeutic CARE and the Triple-A method

Posted on July 30, 2016 by colbypearce

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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Therapeutic Fostering

Posted on November 22, 2015 by colbypearce

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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Punishment is Problematic

Posted on April 20, 2015 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Children's Behaviour, Fostering, Parenting, Resilience, Schools | 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 | Leave a comment

Child Protection Reflections

Posted on April 17, 2015 by colbypearce

Some reflections on child protection . . . The requirement that children be protected from abuse, neglect and interpersonal trauma is conceptually simple and beyond reproach. Child protection in practice is not-so-simple. Child protection in practice requires the community to … Continue reading →

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Bestselling Adoption Titles

Posted on May 1, 2014 by colbypearce

Please visit the Secure Star site for these and other bestselling titles. Bestselling Adoption Titles.

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Reparative Attachment Therapy

Posted on April 25, 2014 by colbypearce

Reparative Attachment Therapy.

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