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Diary of a Psychotherapist #3: The impact of a long career in child protection and out-of-home care
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
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Tagged children, counsellor, family, mental health, news, parenting, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, social worker, Therapy, trauma, trauma informed, wellbeing
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How do I get my child to go to sleep in their own bed?
In this blog I describe a methodology I used with my own children, and recommend in my practice. Before doing so, I would advise that this is a routine that I sustained across years. My children and I enjoyed this … Continue reading
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting
Tagged children's sleep, foster carer, fostering, kinship carer, parent, parenting, psychology, resilience, sleep, trauma informed, wellbeing
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A little extra Accessibility in tough times
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
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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
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Working with At-Risk Families: The Importance of Regulating Shame
In The Zahir, author Paulo Coelho tells the story of two firefighters who take a break from fighting a forest fire by a stream. The face of one of the firefighters is dirty and sooty. The face of the other … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Protection, child welfare, connection, family, parenting, relationships, shame, therapeutic parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed practice, trauma responsive, trauma sensitive, wellbeing
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