Intersubjectivity: The key to human connection Often children who are fostered and adopted have missed out on vital early experiences that facilitate the ability to fully connect with another and...
Knowledge is power When children understand what’s happening in the brain, it can be the first step to having the power to make choices. Knowledge can be equally powerful to...
Many children who come into the care system, and who are subsequently adopted or go into kinship or foster care, have lived with and around domestic violence and abuse. They...
The subject of identity became topical recently due to an opinion piece by Fraser McAlpine in The Guardian about the idea that some people were being deterred from adopting children because of...
There are enormous misunderstandings about the way in which babies and young children “remember” their experiences. We assume that pre-verbal children can’t possibly retain trauma in their memory. For example,...
Children traumatised by neglect and abuse experience a double-whammy, negative effect in relation to shame. Firstly, their experiences mean that they are hypersensitive to shame and unable to tolerate it....
Adopted and fostered children often struggle to understand and manage their own emotions. Their emotions can be changeable and extreme. For example you may have had experience of your child...
Attachment Theory is one of the most influential theories that informs the work of adopters and foster carers. It provides a great theoretical foundation and many of the recent advances...
Most of us assume that human brains are fixed in their growth by the time of birth. We all expect that brains grow and absorb more information as children grow;...
