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Why is it important? What does it achieve? How do you use it? New to bower(knowledge) this week: a conversation…
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Bower Place Training Information Night
Bower Place Knowledge & Training Information Open Night Tuesday 15 November 5.30pm Opportunities to work directly with clients in…
Read moreBower Place Online Training Information Session
Bower Place Knowledge & Training Online Information Night Tuesday 22 November 5.30pm This information session is aimed at those…
Read moreTruancy: 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…
Read morePolice 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…
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