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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: May 2015
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Integration and Connection in Well-Being and Recovery from Trauma. This blog is Part Two of 'The Need for Integration'. The American Psychiatrist and Neurobiologist Daniel Siegel (2006) claims,. 8220;The central idea of interpersonal neurobiology is that integration is at the heart of well-being.”. From the beginning of life integration is interwoven with attachment. Referring to the importance of attachment in relatio...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: The Need for Integration – Part One, Leadership and Management
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Thursday, January 22, 2015. The Need for Integration – Part One, Leadership and Management. Before moving on to the subject of leadership and management I will give a little background context. Partly as I intend to write a series of blogs on the subject of integration. 8220;The central idea of interpersonal neurobiology is that integration is at the heart of well-being.”. Mawson, A. (2008) The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work,. 8220;I...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: November 2014
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Saturday, November 22, 2014. A Taxi Driver’s Timely Comment on Brain Plasticity. Since I started writing blogs a few months ago I have realized that there are some things worth writing about that may just be like a mini blog – of which this is one. However, I said people get used to what is normal for them and probably don’t mind so much. Maybe those are the best kind of gifts. His comment certainly helped get my talk off to a good start. Stable R...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: June 2015
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Integrating and Connecting - The Essence of Trauma Recovery Environments. This blog is Part Three of ‘The Need for Integration’. We as therapists are not really "shrinks"; we are "integrators". 8211; Nelson, et al. (2014). Networks of connections provide a potentially stronger level of support and emotional containment. This powerful network is then internalized and integrated by the child as part of his internal model...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: January 2015
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Thursday, January 22, 2015. The Need for Integration – Part One, Leadership and Management. Before moving on to the subject of leadership and management I will give a little background context. Partly as I intend to write a series of blogs on the subject of integration. 8220;The central idea of interpersonal neurobiology is that integration is at the heart of well-being.”. Mawson, A. (2008) The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work,. 8220;I...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: August 2014
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Models in Therapeutic Work with Traumatized Children Part 2. 8216;You can tell how all of the carers were brought up, because they all have different rules and attitudes at mealtimes.’. There is nothing like the way we eat together to highlight differences! In the absence of a clear and agreed model the carers were doing their own thing based on their personal points of view. There could be 8-10 adults in a team, so ...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: June 2014
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The Value of Writing and Storytelling. I said in my previous blog, that in my first job at the Cotswold Community we were expected to read about our work with traumatized children. It is interesting to think that many of the stories told to infants, by their most trusted carers are often frightening - involving witches, monsters, and grandmothers disguised as wolves to devour the unsuspecting child! This process required a ...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: The Leadership of Organizations Providing Services for Traumatized Young People
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. The Leadership of Organizations Providing Services for Traumatized Young People. If a leader needs people who can think about difficult problems it is no use simply telling them what to do. Rudy Gonzalez, Executive Director at the Lighthouse Institute asked me if I would write this blog on leadership ( http:/ goo.gl/eoadFw. The UK has had numerous Government initiated investigations into the ‘Care System’ fo...Short ter...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: August 2015
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Sunday, August 30, 2015. The Capacity to Think: Why it is so Important and so Difficult in Work with Traumatized Children. 8220;Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and body manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.” (van der Kolk, 2014, p.21). What does a child need in order to learn? A secure base from which to venture into the world. 8220;Executiv...
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children: October 2014
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Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children. Tuesday, October 7, 2014. The Meaning of a Child’s Stealing and Other Antisocial Behavior. What prompted me to write a blog on this subject was a comment by a psychologist, who said to me, ‘That while culture has a significant influence on behavior, stealing seems to be a universal theme across cultures, for children who are in care’. She wondered why? Delinquency as a Sign of Hope'. 1967) urges caution in expecting such a child to explain his beh...
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