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.
Family Stories
Pat Jewell, Team Leader of the Parenting Education and Support program explores how we sub-consciously learn stories that continue to narrate our lives.
Read MoreOne 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 MoreStepping 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 MoreBehind 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 MoreThe Whole Brain Child Review
Here, guest blogger and parent Beck Lambert shares her review after reading and implementing "The Whole Brained Child" with her family.
Read MoreHow does a team make you a better trauma counsellor?
In this blog entry, Jaclyn Guest, Senior Counsellor with the Child Trauma Service, explores how working with a team helps support trauma work and prevent burnout.
Read MoreNeurobiology 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 MoreCaring 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 MoreRevisiting Darcey’s life: a loss never to forget – and questions that still need answering.
Four years have passed, and here Dr Joe Tucci revisits the life and death of little Darcey Freeman who was killed by her father in March 2011. This post asks difficult questions that we all can play a part in answering.
Read MoreShame
Have you ever thought about how children, young people and adults have come to hold onto a platform of Shame? Here, Deb McKenzie shares how in her role as an educator and school counsellor, she often wondered how to best help support a young person who held onto such a negative image of themselves. This concern has taken her on a journey of learning around the topic.
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