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 discusses [...]
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 [...]