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When 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. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged behaviour management, behaviour problems, connection, meltdowns, oppositional defiant disorder, oppositionality, social connectedness, tantrums, wellbeing
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Trauma-Informed: Adopting a Balanced View
Eyes are mirrors for a child’s soul. What do children see in your eyes? Continue reading →
Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Understanding, Connection and Wellbeing
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, attachment, depression, foster care, fostering, kinship care, mental health, mentalhealth, parenting, psychology, resilience, wellbeing
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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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Four Essential Enrichment Activities to Promote Recovery at School from Interpersonal Trauma
Greet the child before they do anything to initiate engagement with you. Greeting children in this way offers them the experience that they are in your thoughts, that they are worthy and that you are accessible. This is necessary as … Continue reading →
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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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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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Strengths-based therapeutic foster care
Triple-A is an approach to the therapeutic care of children that emphasises human connection. It is relational, practical and rooted in conventional caregiving practices. As such, it is an enrichment programme, as opposed to a wholesale alternative to conventional caregiving … Continue reading →
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Media Release: South Australian Program Embraced by Foster Carers in Ireland
An Australian-developed program for foster carers is receiving unreserved support in Donegal, Ireland. Known as the Triple-A Model of Therapeutic Care, the program is currently being delivered by Secure Attachment Matters Ireland with support from TUSLA, the Irish Government Child and … Continue reading →
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