Prosody Blog
Prosody is the pitch and tone of the human voice. It is the very essence of connection. Our blog hosts articles and stories dedicated to innovation, research and practice with children and young people.
Sibling Sexual Abuse Series – Part 3
This article was authored by Jaclyn Guest, Senior Counsellor, Child Trauma Service Victoria, at the Australian Childhood Foundation. This post marks the third in our series on responding to sibling sexual abuse (you can read part 1 here, and part 2 here). In the past two articles, we have posted about sibling sexual abuse and …
Read MoreSibling Sexual Abuse Series – Part 2
This article was authored by Jaclyn Guest, Senior Counsellor, Child Trauma Service Victoria, at the Australian Childhood Foundation. The proposal of a Single Clinician Approach This is the second post in our series looking at responding to sibling sexual abuse. In our last post, Cyra Fernandes blogged about sibling sexual abuse: what it is, how …
Read MoreMeet the Speaker: Emeritus Professor Russell Meares
In this week’s meet the speaker series – the third so far – we learn more about one of our Australian Child Trauma Conference Presenters; Emeritus Professor Rusell Meares and the concept of ‘Analogical Connectedness’. What was a pivotal experience (the “spark”) that started you off in your research and/or practice? Multiple “sparks,” arising in …
Read MoreDealing with abuse: A young Australian’s insights
In May this year, The Australian published the story of ‘Hannah Baker’, a young woman now in her 20’s, detailing her story of abuse and the books that she has now written intending to help schools, child protection workers and others learn important lessons from her case. After reading the article, we invited her to …
Read MoreUsing the Mr. Men characters – themes in counselling
This article was authored by Sharon Duthie, Senior Counsellor, Child Trauma Service Victoria, at the Australian Childhood Foundation. “Who’s this?” I inquired pointing at the self-portrait my seven year old client had painted. “It’s Mr. Nobody!” the child exclaimed as if it were obvious. “Oh!” I said. “I wonder what it’s like to be Mr. …
Read MoreTherapeutic Parenting
This article was authored by Janise Mitchell, Deputy CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation. In trauma informed therapeutic out of home care programs, the concept of therapeutic parenting has been introduced to help define the orientation of carers in their task of parenting children with trauma backgrounds. In this article, I have attempted to describe …
Read MoreAn interview with Cathy Malchiodi – Part 2
Cathy Malchiodi has been at the forefront of exploring how different forms of creative interventions can support children, young people and their carers/families. She is the author of several books including ‘Creative Interventions with Traumatised Children’. In December last year, we published the first of a two-part interview with Cathy Malchiodi. A leading international expert, …
Read MoreChildren’s trauma in the context of war and relocation
This article was co-authored by Deb McKenzie & Maria Murray,Team Leader and Senior Training Consultant at the Australian Childhood Foundation. Earlier this year, the Australian Childhood Foundation tweeted the following Basic human rights, should be accessible by all humans – children included. Amongst other things, these rights include the right to: a name, food, be …
Read MoreIn 2014, how willing are we to act to protect children from abuse and exploitation?
This article was co-authored by Joe Tucci & Janise Mitchell, CEO and Deputy CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation. We have worked on three major community attitude studies about child abuse and child protection at the Foundation (you can find these here). In 2003, we found that the community was extremely ambivalent about trusting children’s …
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