Truancy: A discussion with Bower Place Practitioners.
Bower(knowledge) – new this week – a discussion about truancy. What are the issues schools, parents, teachers and young people…
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Police Negotiator’s Training
Bower Place provides training to Police Negotiators. Here is the Certificate of Appreciation for training provided in October 2022.
Read moreNovels as Teachers
Training to be a family therapist can be both exciting and tedious. The thrill is often in clinical practice, observing…
Read moreLeaving Home at 90
The decision to place an elderly parent into care in the face of their express wish to remain in their…
Read moreToo Young to Die
In 2020, in Australia, 99 deaths by suicide were recorded in children and adolescents (aged 5–17 years) with 74% in those…
Read moreWhen Prevention is Better than Cure
It has long been understood that adverse childhood experiences, an umbrella term for ‘severe negative environmental events that require significant…
Read moreThe Effects Go On and On
The understanding that trauma in parents can result in behavioural and emotional problems in children is well accepted but…
Read moreThey are Just too Overprotective
Practitioners who work with children and their families are familiar with circumstances where a young person who is labelled as…
Read moreAutism, Parenting, and the Couple Relationship
With an increasing number of children presenting for therapy with a diagnosis of autism accompanied by funding from NDIS, it…
Read moreDunbar’s Number is Still Going Strong
Thirty years ago, John Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, proposed the social brain hypothesis which posited a relationship between brain…
Read moreHikikomori: How Do we Understand this Behaviour?
With the Olympic Games and coronavirus numbers escalating Japan has been in our attention. A lesser-known Japanese phenomenon is that…
Read moreThat ‘Not Again’ Feeling
It was with relief that those of us who had been locked down in Adelaide returned to some form of…
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