Tag Archives: social worker

An attachment-informed perspective about why healing birth family connection is vital in social care endeavours.

Posted on September 25, 2025 by colbypearce

Attachment is an important consideration in decisions that are made in Child Protection. Attachment security is an aspirational goal for children and young people who could not be safely cared for at home with their birth family. Though this is … Continue reading →

Getting Behaviour Management Right for Deeply Hurt and Troubled Children and Young People: A Triple-A Approach

Posted on August 5, 2025 by colbypearce

Recently, I was invited to deliver training to staff of a local children’s services organisation. I chose to deliver the training on a reflective process for understanding and responding therapeutically to behaviours of concern exhibited by children and young people … Continue reading →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged attachment, attachment theory, Colby Pearce, Donald Winnicott, foster care, John Bowlby, kinship care, OOHC, out of home care, parenting, residential child care, school, social worker, teacher, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed school | 2 Comments

Diary of a Psychotherapist #3: The impact of a long career in child protection and out-of-home care

Posted on November 4, 2024 by colbypearce

This video stems from preparations for supervision I was delivering to a social enterprise that works in the child protection and out-of-home space, with a mind to they might feel acknowledged, and acknowledge each other, in the challenging and rewarding … Continue reading →

Posted in trauma informed practice | Tagged children, counsellor, family, mental health, news, parenting, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, social worker, Therapy, trauma, trauma informed, wellbeing | Leave a comment

Diary of a Psychotherapist #2: Attachment

Posted on November 4, 2024 by colbypearce

This is the second of what I plan to be a series of short videos about my thoughts on psychotherapy service delivery, with a special focus on service provision to children and young people who have experienced relational and developmental … Continue reading →

Posted in trauma informed practice | Tagged child psychologist, counselling, counsellor, depression, mental health, psychologist, psychology, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, social worker, Therapy, trauma informed | Leave a comment

Supporting Strong Developmental Outcomes: The case for CARE and Attachment Security

Posted on November 1, 2021 by colbypearce

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

Relationships Regulate and Repair

Posted on July 19, 2021 by colbypearce

Relational trauma, such as that which occurs as a result of abuse and neglect, impacts three key areas of relational connection: The relational connection a child has with others, including those who care for them; The relational connection the child … Continue reading →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Therapy, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged attachment, attachment theory, child development, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfare leadership, connection, fostercare, kinship care, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, relational connection, relational trauma, residential child care, social worker, trauma, trauma informed, trauma responsive | 2 Comments

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

Our own response to the pandemic reflects the experience of maltreated children

Posted on May 4, 2020 by colbypearce

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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Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | Leave a comment

A little extra needs provision

Posted on March 23, 2020 by colbypearce

Hello again. I am taking my own advice and maintaining a consistent routine as much as possible during these extraordinary times by posting content that I hope will prove to be useful to caregivers of children and young people. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adopter, adopters, adoption, Coronavirus, COVID19, educator, educators, foster care, foster carer, foster carers, grandparent, grandparents, kinship care, kinship carer, kinship carers, parent, parenting, parenting tips, parents, psychology, Social Care, Social Work, social worker, teacher, teachers, youth work | 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

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