What is Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and how can we address it?
Freddie Cooke2020-12-02T02:37:43+00:00What is Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and how can we address it? For this week's blog, Prishini Ratnayake discusses [...]
Is your ‘no’ a ‘maybe’, ‘sometimes’ or ‘yes’?
Freddie Cooke2020-12-02T01:22:42+00:00Is your 'no' a 'maybe', 'sometimes', or 'yes'? Children come to this world without an understanding of what [...]
Pandemic Placement: completing a social work placement during COVID
Freddie Cooke2020-12-02T01:22:47+00:00Pandemic Placement: completing a social work placement during COVID Working from home has become the new normal and [...]
What is your child’s challenging behaviour telling you?
Freddie Cooke2020-12-02T01:22:53+00:00What is your child's challenging behaviour telling you? Instead of categorising children's behaviour, clinician Hannah Verass teaches us [...]
How to help kids feel safe again
Freddie Cooke2020-12-02T01:23:00+00:00How to help kids feel safe again Our clinician Kenneth Spedding provides some guidance for reassuring anxious children [...]
Compassion Fatigue: what is the cost of caring?
Freddie Cooke2020-10-28T01:04:50+00:00Compassion Fatigue What is the cost of caring? Our clinician Richard Zhang asks our industry what we are [...]
Re-emerging from COVID 19 – what it looks like for the ACT Group
Freddie Cooke2020-08-25T02:11:16+00:00A New Normal Re-emerging from COVID-19 and what it looks like at the ACT Group CEO Monique Blom [...]
Shifting the traditional parenting paradigm
Freddie Cooke2020-07-31T04:55:42+00:00Shifting the traditional parenting paradigm Our Clinical Lead Yasodha Samaranayake shares some thoughts on roles, power struggles and [...]
Connecting with children through play
Freddie Cooke2020-06-17T01:46:39+00:00Connecting with children through play Many of us are having more time to play with our children than [...]
ACT Group COVID-19 Response
Freddie Cooke2020-05-13T01:26:24+00:00Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response We would like to take the opportunity to further update our community on the Australian [...]