Violence to Parents; What Creates the conditions?
With significant and entirely appropriate focus on violence against children there are others in families who are also the focus…
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PhD Scholarship: Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes in Educational Settings
Bower Place is excited about this co-funded PhD scholarship opportunity: Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes in Educational Settings…
Read moreUnderstanding the Facts About Sleep
Sleep; when it’s working well, we barely think about it but when we, our baby, child, or partner can’t sleep…
Read moreThe Child’s Village
In contemporary education and allied health settings, the phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” has never been…
Read moreSo Many Hurt Children
In 1965 a paper entitled ‘The Battered-Child’ Syndrome in South Australia’ was published by Lois Wurfel and George M. Maxwell…
Read moreDo You Have a Sibling?
Working with families draws attention to relationships between adults across generations, and with children. However, the sibling relationship, often the…
Read moreTo Err is Human
Making mistakes is inevitable. It is how we learn by introducing new information into our system. ‘I’ll never do that…
Read moreAfter the Separation and Divorce
Separation and divorce entail the dissolution of a primary attachment bond of adulthood and often represents a life transition neither…
Read moreChildren with Complex Trauma and Systemic Therapy
Children are among the most powerless in our society and a child suffering emotional distress relies on adults to notice…
Read moreSpeaking the ‘Right’ Love Language
Couples who attend therapy have often explored their own solutions through accessible and popular books which promote singular ideas about…
Read moreThe Power of Parents
The recent Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) results have sounded an alarm for early childhood development across the country. With…
Read moreThe Practitioner and the Questioning System
Learning to ask an elegant difference question which effectively explores the practitioner’s best hunch about the presenting difficulties is no…
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