What is Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and how can we address it?
What is Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and how can we address it? For this week's blog, Prishini Ratnayake [...]
Is your ‘no’ a ‘maybe’, ‘sometimes’ or ‘yes’?
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
Pandemic Placement: completing a social work placement during COVID Working from home has become the new normal and [...]
Re-emerging from COVID 19 – what it looks like for the ACT Group
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
Shifting the traditional parenting paradigm Our Clinical Lead Yasodha Samaranayake shares some thoughts on roles, power struggles and [...]
ACT Group COVID-19 Response
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
Toilet paper, coronavirus (COVID-19) and complex trauma - chaos or calm, it’s your choice Like many [...]
10 Tips for Good Leadership
10 Tips for Good Leadership for CEOs and Managers Stepping down as [...]
Leading Through Change
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
Psychologists, therapy and counselling – the politics of healing Gregory has a bone to pick with the current [...]
Unimaginable experiences in unimaginable times
Unimaginable experiences in unimaginable times. The musings of Emilie Traeger, one of our clinicians in Canberra, on the [...]
Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Times of Devastation
Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Times of Devastation Read Gregory's reflections on the current bushfire crisis, the [...]
Reflection in supervision
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?
Child protection overhaul – subterfuge or the real answer? Our sector [...]
Accountability in the out-of-home care 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
The Overrepresentation of Indigenous Young People in Incarceration As discussed in a Fairfax article, “Call for mandatory sentencing [...]