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.
Five activities that promote connected safety for traumatised children and carers
This blog post is written by Dr. Joe Tucci, CEO of The Australian Childhood Foundation. Over the last two weeks, I have written two blogs about integrating the work of Steve Porges about safety into practice that centralizes it as a resource for children who have experienced trauma. In this third and final blog, I …
Read MoreHow to invite safety back into the relationships around traumatised children?
This blog post was written by Joe Tucci, CEO of The Australian Childhood Foundation. Last week, I wrote about three practice principles that were derived from an exploration of the neuroscience of safety. In this blog, I describe a way of working that centralises safety as the theme for healing the physiological and psychological consequences …
Read MoreIs all trauma the same?
This blog post has been written by Dr Joe Tucci, CEO of the Australian Childhood Foundation. I spent some time recently reading through the literature on poly-victimisation. I remember listening to David Finkelhor more than a decade ago presenting findings from his research that found that many of the children who had been identified as …
Read MoreTaking Developmental Dyadic Psychotherapy to the next level
This blog post was written by Jaclyn Guest Senior Counsellor, Child Trauma Service. How many traumatised children do you know that can tell you about their inner emotional experiences using words? Trauma attacks stories. It scrambles our ability to tell our stories. It steals our opportunities to have our stories heard and validated. The …
Read MoreThe Need for an External Regulator in the Playroom
When babies are crying, distressed, and upset, why do we rock them back and forth? Founder and President of the Play Therapy Institute of Colorado, Lisa Dion, helps us to understand the importance of therapists becoming external regulators in the playroom as children work towards integrating their challenging experiences.
Read MoreRelational Safety and Placement Stability – Outcomes of the TrACK Program (Part 1)
Noel McNamara explores the outcomes of the TrACK Program – a treatment and care for Kids program which seeks to provide support for vulnerable children and young people who have experienced abuse related trauma.
Read MoreSongs of change and harmony
Foundation CEO, Dr Joe Tucci, explores the connection between the songs of whales and the collective 'song' of professionals who work in the trauma community; asking what it is that we need to keep growing, to keep resourcing each other and to continue to improve outcomes for children and young people.
Read MoreHealing the Past by Nurturing the Future
A new Aboriginal-led project aims to learn how to identify and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents who have experienced complex trauma in their own childhoods.
Read MoreWhat is love?
The recent launch of ACF’s new logo and the narrative of love that accompanies it has prompted me to consider this concept of love in our work with traumatised children. Having love as a value seems fundamental to everything we do in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, when we unpack what love means in the context of children who have experienced trauma, it is way more complex.
Read MoreWhat does trauma-informed mean? Grappling with the challenge
The question in the heading of this blog is a deceptively simple question to ask, but the answer is so very complex.
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