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Therapeutic Care is all about your AURA

Posted on February 12, 2024 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in training, trauma informed | Tagged attachment, Education, fostercare, howto, kinshipcare, parenting, school, socialcare, teachers, traumainformed | Leave a comment

Connected Classrooms that CARE: Supporting children recovering from a tough start to life in an era of COVID-19

Posted on May 7, 2020 by colbypearce

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 →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Schools, Trauma Informed Schools | 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 | Leave a comment

A little extra emotional connectedness

Posted on March 26, 2020 by colbypearce

Emotional connectedness is a by-product of interaction. When you are interacting with a person you are likely to feel an ‘echo’ of their emotion. This is a form of empathy that is instinctive and, with few exceptions, we all have … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adoption, childcare, childprotection, childwelfare, educator, fostercare, grandparent, kinshipcare, parent, parenting, relativecare, school, socialcare, teacher, trauma informed practice, trauma responsive, traumainformed, traumainformedcare | 2 Comments

One thing that reduces a childs clinginess during a coronavirus lockdown

Posted on March 25, 2020 by colbypearce

As the Coronavirus (COVID19) continues to impact how we go about our lives, a common concern is how parents will work from home or perform other daily tasks when the children cannot attend school or childcare. This concern is particularly … Continue reading →

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A little extra Accessibility in tough times

Posted on March 20, 2020 by colbypearce

Children first learn that we are accessible to them during infancy when we attend to them whether they are crying or quiet. Attending to infants whether they are crying or quiet provides experiences of their worth, of our proximity and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged childcare, educator, educators, fostercare, fostercarer, fostering, kinshipcare, kinshipcarer, kinshipcarers, mentalhealth, parent, parenting, parents, parentwellbeing, psychologist, resilience, school, schools, socialcare, socialwork, socialworker, teacher, teachers, traumainformed, wellbeing, youth worker | Leave a comment

A little extra consistency in tough times

Posted on March 19, 2020 by colbypearce

We are experiencing remarkable times. The Coronavirus (COVID 19) has brought with it a great deal of uncertainty, for all of us. Uncertainty is stressful. Certainty allows us to predict what will happen, when it will happen, and how it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adopter, adoption, child care, Child Protection, child welfare, Education, educator, foster care, fosteradopt, fostering, fostering and adoption, kinship care, kinship carer, parent, parenting, parenting tips, school, Social Work, social worker, trauma informed, youth work, youth worker | Leave a comment

Complex Trauma: Three things you need to know about how it impacts the developing child

Posted on March 8, 2019 by colbypearce

Complex Trauma occurs when children experience prolonged and debilitating fear and distress as a result of adverse experiences that occur recurrently and/or in combination, and where the person or person’s who are responsible for keeping the child safe from harm and alleviate their distress is/are:
1. unable to alleviate the child’s distress; or
2. responsible or the child’s distress. Continue reading →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged adoption, complex developmental trauma, Complex Trauma, developmental trauma, kinship care, post adoption support, school, Social Care, social care worker, social worker, teacher, therapeutic care, therapeutic foster care, trauma informed | Leave a comment

Trauma Informed Practice Resource for Schools

Posted on February 19, 2019 by colbypearce

This resource represents an endeavour to support effective working connections between home and school in support of recovery or children who have experienced trauma at home. Continue reading →

Posted in Schools, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged Education, practice, school, schools, teacher, teachers, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools, traumarecovery | Leave a comment

A practical resource supporting trauma-informed practice at school

Posted on January 25, 2019 by colbypearce

I am very pleased to announce that in association with the successful implementation of the Triple-A Model of Therapeutic CARE in TUSLA’s alternate care service in Donegal, Ireland, and the CARE Therapeutic Framework in the Kinship Care Program in South Australia, I have developed a complementary resource for trauma-informed practice in schools. Continue reading →

Posted in Schools, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged attachment, edchat, edtech, Education, edutech, school, schools, teacher, teachers, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice | 1 Comment

Trauma Informed Classrooms : Four Essential Activities

Posted on December 14, 2018 by colbypearce

Hi everyone. I hope you don’t mind, but I have decided to update and re-post this blog from a little while ago. It was a bit buried in all of the other posts on this site, and the information is … Continue reading →

Posted in Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, attachment theory, classroom, Education, howto, learning, oppositional defiant disorder, reactive attachment disorder, resilience, school, teacher, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed care principles, trauma informed practice | Leave a comment

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