In this article Hilton Davis, Emeritus Professor of Child Health Psychology, describes his Family Partnership Model
In this Model, the relationship between parents and those helping them is a partnership defined in terms of mutual participation and involvement, being parent-led, involving the
Read more: The Helping Relationship: Understanding Partnerships. Essay by Professor Hilton Davis
From Cerebra website (UK):
Has your local continence team told you that your child isn’t old enough to have a continence assessment? Our new template letter could help you to make a complaint.
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Child specific ‘Return to Activity’ guidelines, which are more conservative than adult guidelines, were developed to guide management when youth sustain a concussion.
Implementation of these new pediatric specific recommendations is an im
'Parents who had survived months feeling unsupported now felt confused, overwhelmed and overloaded'
Adam’s first weeks were in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He had loving parents and an older sister.His multifaceted condition included cerebral palsy, sensory impairment, inability to suck an
Read more: Adam and the primary interventionist way of working
Nargis teaches 4th-6th-grade language arts at Abdul Rahim Shaheed school in Dasht-e-Barchi. She explains that her students often miss school because they are afraid to leave their homes. Many of her students have lost family members to bombings
“My sister Nargis Turkmani was born and raised i
Read more: Life in Afghanistan for a teacher and her students
'The child is just a child and not singled out as something very different. The parents are just parents without having to be therapists'
We can use the word ‘Zen’ in two ways. There is the Zen of the Japanese tea ceremony which can be practised by people in all walks of life. Then there is t
Read more: Zen in care and support for new children who have disabilities
Baby Megan was born into a loving family with two parents (both of whom say they had been slow learners at school) and a caring but exhausted maternal grandmother. Baby M’s diagnosis included developmental delay with probable cerebral palsy and intellectual disability. This very anxious mother had l
“Beth has autism, suffers extreme anxiety and cannot cope with stress – yet instead of being helped to enjoy life she is shut away”
The heading and quote above and the following extracts are from an article by Ian Birrell in the i newspaper on 7th October:
“She is obese from inactivity and
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