From Encyclopedia of Child Development website: In recent years, a lot of new information has emerged on epigenetics that allows us to better understand how developmental trajectories can be either adaptive or maladaptive.
Experiences and environmental exposures act on genes like a dimmer switch to
From Talking Mats: Talking Mats is a great tool to help you to really listen to children and help them to have their say about decisions affecting their lives as well as shaping the services that support them.
Talking Mats can be used by practitioners and parents in the Team Around the Child
The Solihull Approach aims to increase emotional health and well-being through both practitioners and parents. It does this through resources and training across the child and family workforce. The majority of health visitors in the UK are n
Read more: Quick guide to the Solihull Approach – about emotional health in children and families
How quickly they change, how they overlap and how disabled people can get extra help? This course gives a basic overview of the current system.
Wednesday 14 June 2017 - Can Mezzanine, East Road, London
Our Benefits Overview Course is aimed at professionals who work in advice or advocacy who need t
Katrina McNamara writes: Today we begin a conversation to engage and listen to members, families, young people, professionals, service providers and those with an interest in children's palliative care to help us develop our strategy from
Read more: UK survey from Together for Short Lives – can you help?
This is a story written by Carolyn Kelly, a Play Therapy UK registrant for a little boy who just couldn’t ask for help. It starts:
Once upon a time there was a sailor called Mallory Twitch who lived on a little red boat in Pebbletown. Mal
Read more: ‘The Story of Mallory Twitch’ – a therapeutic story
Increasing complexities brought about by global crises are calling for us to actively disrupt and challenge the conceptual frameworks currently dominating cultural policy and theory.
Creative ecology offers a new paradigm that recognises th
Read more: Creative Ecology: A New Model For Resilience in Creative Communities - from New Zealand
Safe from the Start is an innovative, early intervention and evidence based project initiated by The Salvation Army, which has won the top National Crime & Violence Prevention Award in 2011 and a Child Protection Award in 2010.
Developed
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011