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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 8, 2016

Don 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.

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August 3, 2016

Where 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. 

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July 25, 2016

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.

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July 19, 2016

What 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. 

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July 11, 2016

Transforming 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.

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July 8, 2016

‘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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July 6, 2016

Early sexualisation and pornography exposure: the detrimental impacts on children

Guest blogger, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the impact of a pornified world on our children.

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June 30, 2016

Why 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'.

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June 27, 2016

What 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.

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June 23, 2016

Reflections 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.

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