by diviadmin | Feb 26, 2018 | Reports
Public Health Wales and the University of Bangor have published their report on the relationship between resilience and the onset of Adverse Childhood Experiences. The report gives clues for those working with both children and adults – about how to mitigate the...
by diviadmin | Aug 29, 2017 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice
So many interventions with troubled kids focus on behaviour. And many of them don’t work. Why is that?… It’s because the sequencing is wrong. If a bricky tried building the walls of a house before digging the foundations, it wouldn’t stand up...
by diviadmin | Apr 20, 2017 | Books & stuff, Practice
I’ve been training a lot on the Trauma Recovery Model recently and frequently get asked for further reading and pointers to good books… So I thought I’d put together a quick guide to some of the main ones so that folks can easily get through to them...
by diviadmin | Feb 7, 2016 | Practice
In training this week we had a fascinating discussion about what it is that best helps troubled young people. More specifically, what is it about those people who are particularly good at it, that makes them stand out? Get the audio versions of later posts on...
by diviadmin | Oct 16, 2014 | Child Devmt, Teens
“How do you feel when I do this?” A teenager once asked me. He then pulled his hoody up over his hair and peered at me malevolently from under the hood. He went on to explain that he used this pose as a way of keeping people at a distance. Why does the...