Prosody Blog
How trauma hijacks learning – A memo from a four year old
How might a four year old describe the impact of trauma on their ability to learn? In today's blog entry Jeanette Miller, Consultant in the Parenting and Early Learning Program at the Australian Childhood Foundation explores the topic, informed by our understanding of neurobiology and developmental trauma.
Read MoreStress, Trauma and Resilience – are they connected?
Are stress and trauma the same? Are they different? Can we be resilient to Trauma? In today's blog entry, Marina Dickson explores these topics and the relationship between them.
Read MoreThe Enchanted Forest: A Magical Place of Healing for Young People in Residential Care
For young people in residential care, forming safe and trusting relationships can be very challenging. Trauma disrupts their ability to regulate, forming barriers to connection. Here, Therapeutic Specialist Anna Fasolo shares one solution recently engaged to support young people in a therapeutic residential care placement.
Read MoreLooking forward – a commitment to better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.
An exploration of the 6 principles the Australian Childhood Foundation has committed to in support of better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.
Read MoreDon Dale : Beyond Anger
Reflecting on 'Australia's Shame' and the outrage that has followed the airing of the Four Corners episode, Lauren Thomas considers what we as a group of professionals working with vulnerable children can do.
Read MoreWhere is Article 12?
Knowledge in the field of neurobiology has dramatically changed therapeutic work with trauma. But does this focus also contribute to a bio-medical model of work that can lead to a breach in children's rights? Where children’s trauma is more likely to be managed medically rather than in an engaged manner with their ability to share their own experience and have input into therapeutic process? Here Mary Jo McVeigh considers the place of human rights in the trauma therapeutic discourse.
Read MoreSchool 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.
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