How Young Women See themselves and how Mother’s Can Help
The debate about the negative impact of social media on young people and the vexed question of how to address…
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New Parent and Queer – Are there Additional Challenges?
The post-partum and early infancy period are stressful and a time when mental health issues that are not effectively addressed…
Read moreWhat Do you Do When Your Child Wants to Die?
Self-harm and suicidality in young people is one of the most distressing and threatening presentations for practitioners. Not only are…
Read moreThe Cost of Winter
With the sudden drop in temperature across the country, the constant refrain has become ‘It’s so cold and I hate…
Read moreThe Zero Violence, Zero Exclusion Dilemma
Schools have seen an upsurge in the level of dysregulation and violence they encounter daily. The express objective of bower(schools)…
Read moreConflictual Parents, Irritable Babies: Its Recursive
On meeting parents and a new baby, often the first question asked is ’Are they a good baby?,’ meaning; do…
Read moreBad 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…
Read moreCatch 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, …
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