fbpx

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.
August 7, 2015

Child Centred Practice – Part 3

In today’s post, the third in our series on Child Centred Practice, we will look at what it means not only to listen to children but also to prioritise the voice of the child.

Read More
August 6, 2015

Toxic Stress and Trauma in the Early Years

Toxic stress and trauma for infants is painful. In today's entry, Dr Joe Tucci and Janise Mitchell talk about the impact of trauma on infants, exploring why this professionals can benefit from trauma-informed knowledge and training when working with children in the early years. 

Read More
July 20, 2015

A New Integration

Strengths based trauma-informed practice in child protection

Read More
June 22, 2015

Lessons from the Royal Commission Part 3

In part 3 of our series looking at lessons from the Royal Commission thus far, we outline some of the important insights in relation to child safe recruitment, monitoring and screening processes. This post shares practical examples of the kinds of questions to ask in the recruitment process.

Read More
June 18, 2015

What does it mean to be Child Centred? Part 2

This post is the second in our series looking at Child Centred Practice, exploring the first of four principles of child centred practice that can inform policies, processes and actions: Recognising Critical Timeframes. 

Read More
June 11, 2015

One of our heroes: 15 year old Bridget

15 year old Bridget connected in a powerful way with one of Australia’s most critical social issues and the work being done to address it. We wanted to highlight her work here on Prosody.

Read More
June 9, 2015

Stepping Inside the Infant Experience

To be truly attuned to the infant experience it is likely that we best meet the needs of our ‘under twos’, when we access and communicate with, our own right brains writes Jeanette Miller, who here explores myths and misconceptions held around the infant experience.

Read More
June 2, 2015

Behind the smokescreen: Understanding the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Filmmaker Libby Spears’ documentary PLAYGROUND raises awareness about commercial sexual exploitation of children in North America. Now the film has been turned into a high school curriculum that empowers young people to navigate their environment, online and offline, safely and become advocates in their own communities

Read More
May 18, 2015

Neurobiology of Self-Care

An exploration of self-care from a neurobiological perspective, placing it at the centre of effective practice in work with traumatised children, young people and families. 

Read More
May 14, 2015

Caring for a Traumatised Teen

Adolescence is a period of significant growth, change and development, and is often an exciting as well as challenging time for young people and their parents or carers.  In this blog entry we discuss the insights neurobiology has to support the role of carers of traumatised young people.

Read More