Director’s Notes

A key tenet for giving advice or intervention at Bower Place is that change begins on the outside. By addressing…

Successfully managing a child’s school life is challenging for the most competent adult. It requires excellent time management skills, good…

It is well recognized that ADHD ‘runs in families’ with formal hereditability at about 80%, higher than most other psychiatric…

Resilience, the capacity to return to a previous state after physical or psychological strain is easy to define. However, it…

It is difficult to reconcile a world, no more than fifty years ago, where parents were discouraged from visiting their…

A practitioner’s responsibility is to create change, and clients have a reasonable expectation that a strategy will be suggested, a…

The recent decision by the federal government to legislate to limit young people’s access to social media, speaks to the…

In a world awash with reports and images of violence from conflicts around the world, it is easy to lose…

Including children in family therapy as active and participating contributors can be challenging and it is well recognized that many…

Metaphor is a valuable resource in clinical practice which, when deftly placed, can be the difference between information that makes…

All therapy, irrespective of model agree about one thing. If change is to happen someone, somewhere must do something different….

Infants who won’t sleep, toddlers who won’t comply and teenagers who won’t emerge from their bedrooms are trials that come…