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.
School Bullying Trauma – An Overview
Although most schools try to reduce bullying, one in five children still experience bullying. Omitted from the DSM V, school bullying can cause biopsychosocial injuries, loss of identity and social connections together with a potential for suicidal behaviours, and is a major childhood challenge writes guest blogger, Evelyn Fields OAM.
Read MoreWhat on earth is placement stability in residential Out of Home Care?
Young people in residential care often display incredibly hard to manage behaviours, and finding a placement that works for them among all the other young people with their own combination of the hard to manage behaviours is really hard. Jenna Bollinger discusses what placement stability might - and may not - mean when applied to residential care.
Read MoreTransforming Traumatised Children within Education – One School Counsellor’s Model for Practice
Guest blogger, registered psychologist and school counsellor Deborah Costa shares her own model for working with schools to realise the possibilities they can provide for traumatised students.
Read More‘No coughing for me, but I’m okay!’ – Learning to listen to practitioners’ body stories in human service work
Jo Mensinga shares insights from her research into how human services workers use and understand their own bodies in practice.
Read MoreEarly sexualisation and pornography exposure: the detrimental impacts on children
Guest blogger, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the impact of a pornified world on our children.
Read MoreWhy being trauma informed matters beyond trauma
Dr Melissa Raine considers how Australian culture understands children, how trauma informed responses might impact work with all children, and how the discussion is pertinent to a forthcoming symposium on 'Children's Voices in Contemporary Australia'.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be trauma aware?
Speaker, Trainer, Author and now Guest Blogger, Lisa Cherry discusses what it does - and doesn't - mean to be trauma aware.
Read MoreReflections and Images from the ‘Woodstock’* of Trauma Informed Child Care and Treatments
Dr George Halasz shares his reflections of the second biannual International Child Trauma Conference, and begins the challenge of making sense of the new learnings and their applications when working with children.
Read More#childtrauma2016 CEO reflections – Day 5 & Beyond
This article was authored by Joe Tucci, CEO at the Australian Childhood Foundation. On the very day the 2016 International Childhood Trauma Conference came to an end, I heard a news story highlighting the release of a report by the Australian Child Rights Taskforce to mark the 25th anniversary of the Australian Government’s decision to …
Read More#childtrauma2016 CEO reflections – Day 5 & Beyond
This article was authored by Joe Tucci, CEO at the Australian Childhood Foundation. On the very day the 2016 International Childhood Trauma Conference came to an end, I heard a news story highlighting the release of a report by the Australian Child Rights Taskforce to mark the 25th anniversary of the Australian Government’s decision to …
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