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.
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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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 MoreEarly sexualisation and pornography exposure: the detrimental impacts on children
Guest blogger, Melinda Tankard Reist discusses the impact of a pornified world on our children.
Read MoreWhy 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'.
Read MoreReflections 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.
Read More#childtrauma2016 reflections – Day 1 – Janise Mitchell
Each day of the 2016 International Childhood Trauma Conference, a member of our ACF team will be sharing reflections from their time at conference. For day 1, our Deputy CEO and Conference Co-Convenor Janise Mitchell discusses the thoughts arising from her time in Professor Michael Yellow Bird's masterclass.
Read MoreChild Safe Standards – Victoria
The Victorian Government is introducing compulsory child safe Standards for organisations that work with children. The Standards will support organisations to protect children from abuse and exploitation by their staff and volunteers.
Read MoreAssessment Part 4
The fourth article in this series of articles on assessment, here we examine how to conceptualise and assess the needs of children and families as it related to case planning and intervention.
Read MoreAssessment in Practice with Vulnerable Children and Families Series – Part 3
In the third article in his series on assessment CEO Joe Tucci addresses the question “What is a trauma informed assessment of harm for children and young people?”
Read MoreHow a Sensory Bear Helped a Little Girl to Find Her Voice
Mary-Ann Delaney shares how, in her work as a Senior Counsellor in the Child Trauma Service, the use of sensory toys helped one young client with her trauma.
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