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Culturally Safe Practice
This article was written by Stacey Dellow, Team Leader in Therapeutic Services Program at the Australian Childhood Foundation. What is culturally safe practice? From my perspective as an Aboriginal woman, I need it to include components of the following; collaboration, authentic partnerships, prioritising relationships and having a place for critical reflection. These things give the …
Read MoreReflections on behaviour
This blog was written by Hanif Reza Jaberipour, Senior Consultant in the Parenting and Early Years Program at the Australian Childhood Foundation. As a parent or professional, in living or working with children affected by trauma, the behaviour is what we see. It is behaviour that challenges us, shows us clues about what’s going on inside the child, and …
Read MoreSo Much Change! Helping parents and children cope with the pace of change
This article is written by Diana Kay, a Senior Consultant in the Parenting and Early Years Program at the Australian Childhood Foundation. We are living in extraordinary times! The world as we know it has become topsy-turvy in almost every possible way! The Olympics have been postponed, Wimbledon has been cancelled, international and domestic …
Read MoreSupporting parents in Iran
This article was authored by Soodeh Shobeiri, a Senior Family Consultant and Facilitator of various training for families in Iran. 15 years ago, as a young mum, I had only access to the inner world of one child; my own childhood. I presumed my own childhood as the normal and standard way of being a …
Read MoreThe impact of family violence on the parent-child relationship.
This article was written by Stefanie Ronzoni, Senior Child Counsellor in the Australian Childhood Foundation’s Therapeutic Services. We now know that the relationship between a mother and her child is directly impacted as a result of family violence. Family violence affects a mother’s sense of confidence in her parenting and ability to be present and available to her child in all the ways that she would …
Read MoreSafe and Confidential – The challenges of digital therapeutic service delivery
This article was co-authored by Dr Joe Tucci, CEO, and Lauren Thomas, Manager Service Development at Projects both at the Australian Childhood Foundation We work with children, young people and their families in times of upheaval for them. Times where they have experienced abuse, family violence and chronic stress. Over the decades that the Australian …
Read MoreRelationships matter
This article was written by Claudia O’Hara, a Therapeutic Specialist at the Australian Childhood Foundation, working in the ACT Together consortium. It is with a full and joyous heart that I read my daughter’s end of year school report. Not because she had aced maths and English… she hadn’t! Or because she had excelled in the debate …
Read MoreIn his shoes – Bringing our children home to safety with fetta cheese and peanut butter
This article was written by Dr Joe Tucci, CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation A few weeks ago, a remarkable story unfolded. A young boy with autism went missing in the Victorian bush. The state held its collective breath for three days before there was good news. The volunteers and police who found young William Callaghan put themselves into …
Read MoreYours Truly: Incorporating Therapeutic Letters into the Assessment Process with Children and Young People
This blog article was written by Laura Pyle, a Team Leader in the Australian Childhood Foundation’s Therapeutic Services. In our Therapeutic Services program in Victoria, a group of us have recently been thinking about the way we document the rich stories of children’s lives which emerge throughout our therapeutic assessment process. In particular, we have …
Read MoreThe best thing to tell your kids
This article is written by Dr Joe Tucci, CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation. An earlier version appeared in the Herald Sun as an Op-Ed on the 22 March 2019. It has been a topsy turvy year so far. Our children were really scared during the bushfires. They saw nature burning, they felt the smoke …
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