Prosody Blog
Safe 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 …
Read MoreThe most important tool in the therapeutic toolkit
This article was written by Sue Buratti, Manager of Therapeutic Services, NSW at the Australian Childhood Foundation. The subject of which therapeutic tool to use in a child or young person’s session is always one for fascinating discussion and rightly so. Often, Counsellors can worry about what will be the best intervention or tool to …
Read MoreThe power of expectation
This article was written by Melissa Powney, Team Leader, Professional Education Services at the Australian Childhood Foundation. Have you ever considered how your expectations influence your reality? It is an important concept to reflect upon, as for every predetermined expectation we have about our future, our brain (or more specifically the Insula) anticipates and shapes …
Read MoreIn her shoes
This article was written by Alice Lieshout, Therapeutic Specialist for the Australian Childhood Foundation. THE MOVE I hate that my life turned out this way. I didn’t think life could get any worse living with mum, but then I entered resi. I hate everything about this place. The smell, the people, my empty room, the other …
Read MoreMagnetic Mindfulness
This blog article was co-authored by Matt Harvey, Therapeutic Specialist at ACT Together and Lauren Thomas, Manager at the Australian Childhood Foundation. In the last decade, mindfulness has become one of the biggest buzzwords. From yogi’s to neuroscientists, parents and professionals, everyone has a method, an app or a process they’re using to ‘practice’ this …
Read MoreCoercive Control in Family Violence
This article was written by Bianca Stephenson-Gromer, a Senior Child Counsellor at the Australian Childhood Foundation. In recent years, with a greater awareness of family violence and the debilitating impact it can have on the victim-survivors, children and the community, more and more people are feeling empowered to report and speak out about their torturous experiences of family violence. There are a …
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