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2020

The ACT Group's 2020 2020 was an extraordinary year for the global community. As it begins to be [...]

What 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'? Children come to this world without an understanding of what [...]

Pandemic Placement: completing a social work placement during COVID Working from home has become the new normal and [...]

A New Normal Re-emerging from COVID-19 and what it looks like at the ACT Group CEO Monique Blom [...]

Shifting the traditional parenting paradigm Our Clinical Lead Yasodha Samaranayake shares some thoughts on roles, power struggles and [...]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response We would like to take the opportunity to further update our community on the Australian [...]

Toilet paper, coronavirus (COVID-19) and complex trauma - chaos or calm, it’s your choice Like many [...]

10 Tips for Good Leadership for CEOs and Managers Stepping down as [...]

Leading Through Change Our new CEO at the Australian Childhood Trauma Group, Monique Blom, shares with us the [...]

Psychologists, therapy and counselling – the politics of healing Gregory has a bone to pick with the current [...]

Unimaginable experiences in unimaginable times. The musings of Emilie Traeger, one of our clinicians in Canberra, on the [...]

Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Times of Devastation Read Gregory's reflections on the current bushfire crisis, the [...]

Thoughts on Reflection in Clinical Supervision We went back through our archives and found this significant piece by [...]

Child protection overhaul – subterfuge or the real answer? Our sector [...]

Accountability in the out of home care sector Is a child who leaves out-of-home care in 2019 any [...]

The Overrepresentation of Indigenous Young People in Incarceration As discussed in a Fairfax article, “Call for mandatory sentencing [...]