Bad Kids, Bad Parents, or Insecure Attachment?
Disruptive, angry, and challenging behaviours used to be attributed to ‘bad kids’ and parents were warned that they must not…
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Catch them Early – The Trajectory from Early Disadvantage to Adolescent Conduct Disorders
The wisdom of resourcing infants, young children, and their families as a protective measure for the future has long been…
Read moreAre We Redundant Yet?
We know that artificial intelligence can achieve above the 99.9% on traditional measures of intelligence, outperforming most humans on subtests…
Read moreOn the Same Page
Schools are vital inter-professional hubs for the support of all children including those with high and complex needs, despite never…
Read moreBower Place has Moved!
27 years ago, Bower Place packed up and moved from 71 Glen Osmond Road, our first home, to Gawler Place…
Read moreWalking our Way out of Anxiety
The Age of Anxiety, a six-part poem by the British American poet W. H. Auden was first published in 1947, …
Read moreAttachment Theory and Family Therapies
Attachment theory is one of the more satisfying explanations for human behaviour because it just makes sense. We know from…
Read moreGender Based Violence and the Australian Way
How would Australians like their identity and particularly that of men to be viewed? Brave, ironic, slow to anger, defender…
Read moreThe Threats to Social Cohesion – The Granny Next Door Solution
As the Australian community reeled from the horror of attacks in Sydney and the threats this posed to our coherence,…
Read moreHush Little Baby
Most people find singing in public mildly embarrassing but put a baby into their arms and suddenly it is the…
Read moreSafe on the Outside but Where Does the Trauma Go?
Natural disasters, famine, political upheavals, and war have seen a doubling of people displaced from their homes from 41 to…
Read moreAssaults on Teachers and Principals on the Rise
With approximately 50% of Australian Principals experiencing or witness to physical violence in schools, how do schools draw a line…
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