Colby Pearce
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Companion App for Therapeutic Classrooms and alignment with home. A practical guide to Attachment & Attachment Disorder
Resilient Kids
Secure Start – Trauma Informed
Self-Paced Learning Modules
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Inadvertently Invalidating Conversations
“When I was a child we spent all day outside making cubby houses. Now my children spend all day in front of the computer making houses in Minecraft!” The above statement is an example of how much the lives of … Continue reading →
Three Loving Parental Acts that Enhance Child Wellbeing
In my practice I am regularly asked the following question: What can I do to help my child? In the context of a child, adolescent and family psychology practice, the question is best understood as what can I do to … Continue reading →
Attachment in schools who are managing students with complex needs
One of the challenges when working with children who have complex needs is ensuring that education authorities address their care and management requirements with understanding and sensitivity. Too often, the primary focus of education authorities is behavioural control and an over-reliance on … Continue reading →
A tale of four children and their trip to the adventure playground: A resilience story
This following story represents an allegory for the approach to promoting resilience in children as found in the prologue to: Pearce, C. A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2011 Once upon a time there were … Continue reading →
A Tale of Three Mice: An Attachment Story
Once upon a time there were three mice. The first mouse lived in a house that contained, along with furniture and other household goods and possessions, a lever and a hole in the wall from which food was delivered. Each … Continue reading →
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Tagged ACEs, adoption, attachment, Attachment Disorder, child trauma, fostering, kinship care, parenting, resilience, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, wellbeing
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Taming Tantrums; Managing Meltdowns: Part Two
In Part One of this series, I refer to the fact that the management of severe tantrums and meltdowns in children is an arousal management issue, rather than a behaviour management issue. In this second part of the series, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adelaide, adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Attachment Disorder, Australia, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child trauma, children, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, high emotion, meltdowns, music, parenting, resilience, tantrums, wellbeing
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Survive the School Holidays
Stress is a major cause of demanding and unsettled behaviour in children. Under stress, the brains of children are hard-wired to set off behaviours associated with the fight-flight-freeze response: Fight: Controlling, aggressive, destructive and demanding behaviour, hyperactivity Flight: Running off, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adelaide, adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Australia, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child trauma, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, meltdowns, parenting, resilience, school, tantrums, wellbeing
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How parental expectations influence emotional involvement with our children
I am the father of three boys. I am also a Clinical Psychologist with more than sixteen years experience in child and family psychology. I have conducted more than 1000 assessments of children and their parents in child protection and … Continue reading →
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Eyes are Mirrors for a Child’s Soul
Recently, I was approached by authorities at a school to conduct psychological assessments and provide direction regarding the care and management requirements of the thirteen most challenging children in the school. The school’s criteria for why these children were challenging … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adelaide, adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Attachment Disorder, Australia, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child trauma, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, parenting, resilience, school, tantrums, teaching, wellbeing
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What’s in a name? The problem with the “Helicopter Parent” metaphor
A helicopter is an aircraft that, amongst other things, allows its occupants to hover, observe and, where necessary (as in the case of emergencies), intervene. “Helicopter Parent” is a prejorative term used to refer to parents who are intrusively overprotective … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adelaide, adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Attachment Disorder, Australia, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child psychologist, child trauma, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, meltdowns, parenting, resilience, tantrums, wellbeing
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