Exposure to Violence and a Child’s Developing Brain
Dr Bruce Perry (The Child Trauma Academy) and Linda Chamberlain (Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project) discuss the the impact of...
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Mar 29, 20181 min read
Challenging Behaviour
Young people who demonstrate the most challenging behaviour, are often the most in need of adult support and understanding. ...
Mar 26, 20181 min read
Treating Behaviour
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #APVA #ToxicStress #DevelopmentalTrauma #RelationalRepair #ConnectedChildRaising #Connection...
Mar 21, 20181 min read
Relationships
The importance of supportive relationships and human connection... #MayaAngelou #DevelopmentalTrauma #ToxicStress #ChallengingBehaviour...
Mar 17, 20181 min read
Behind Intimidating Messages
All behaviour is a form of communication and... “behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.”...
Feb 28, 20181 min read
Approach challenging behaviour with compassion
#ChallengingBehaviour #CompassionateAction #MarshallBRosenberg #NonviolentResistance #NVR
Feb 28, 20181 min read
Important, powerful and very readable
“Today most parents are aware that secondhand smoke is really bad for kids, everyone has to wear a seatbelt, and lead is a neurotoxin. We...
Feb 22, 20181 min read
The problem is the problem
Reward & punishment based approaches do not work for all children/ teenagers. Nonviolent Resistance is an ethically-sound alternative...
Feb 21, 20181 min read
Conflict resolution
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CompassionateAction #NonviolentResistance #NVR #ChildtoParentViolence #CPVA #APVA #ViolentChild...
Feb 8, 20181 min read
Addressing Adversity
As part of the Beyond Adversity campaign, Young Minds have launched Addressing Adversity - they’re calling on the government to make...
Feb 8, 20181 min read
The child is not the problem
In dealing with a child’s extreme and challenging behaviour, “Nonviolent Resistance begins with the acknowledgement that the child is...
Feb 7, 20181 min read
Trauma-informed practice
Young people who demonstrate the most challenging behaviour are often the most in need of adult support and understanding.... It’s our...
Feb 6, 20181 min read
Children’s Mental Health Week 2018
Trauma Informed Care is about asking, “What happened to you?” NOT “What is wrong with you?” #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #TraumaInformed...
Feb 4, 20181 min read
Children who need the most love...
#ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #CPVA #Trauma #RussellBarkley #ChildtoParentViolence #APVA #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild...
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Truth telling
Helen Oakwater explains why so many adopted and fostered children "explode" for no apparent reason... and why “100% truth telling in an...
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Share your calm
#ParentalSupport #CompassionateAction #NonviolentResistance #NVR #LRKnost #CPV #CPVA #ChallengingBehaviour #ChildtoParentViolence...
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Reward and punishment
Reward-and-punishment-based approaches simply do not work for all children or teenagers. Nonviolent Resistance is an ethically-sound...
Jan 29, 20181 min read
An unmet need
#TraumaInformed #CompassionateAction #ChallengingBehaviour #CPV #MarshallBRosenberg #Quotes #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
The Window of Tolerance
This new animation from Beacon House shows how a traumatised child swings from fight/flight to freeze/collapse; and what adults can do to...
Jan 1, 20181 min read
"The Lost Children of Trauma"
This powerful animation video, from The Open Nest, was created 3 years ago... It was produced by adopters and adoptees to raise...
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