by popmoc
July 22, 2011 in Adoption, Cared-for Children, Child & Family, Uncategorized
Richard Bowlby (son of John Bowlby) generously gave me permission to put his videos onto Youtube. This video is the most popular of the series.
by Mark
February 4, 2011 in Cared-for Children, Child & Family, children, children's home
Download the flyer for full details … but here’s a taster about the first of the two seminars with Gary Reiss PhD who visits every year….
weekend seminar for professionals/parents with a strong interest in a process-oriented approach to family . Family’s reflect world issues. We get stuck in roles/polarizations unaware we are playing them out, then can become entrenched. This workshop involves skills and attitudes to approach this stuckness and going deeper to the essence and visions behind our relationships. With theory you will also participate in role-plays and working with present relationships to understand this work.
Our families and relationships reflect the world’s issues. We get stuck in roles and polarizations sometimes for years as we forget the roles we are playing out. Over the years our patterns may become more and more entrenched. In this workshop, we will learn how to connect with and become aware of these roles, and to go deeper to the essences and visions that guide our relationships. The closer we get to these essences, the more our relationships make sense, and the less we experience our relationships and families as sources of problems and difficulty. This seminar is for people interested in process-oriented approaches to ‘family’. We will work through role play and with relationships present in the room to learn more about how to access these essence levels to help us facilitate whatever stuck places we experience. Individuals, couples, and families will work in the middle and in dyads and small groups.
We know from our Worldwork seminars that many of the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis feel like long term family feuds, with so many of the same problems of communication, perception, and lack of facilitation. We will apply our family therapy concepts to work with this conflict
Gary Reiss, MSW, PhD, holds a Masters in Social work, a Doctorate in Psychology, and is a Certified Process- Oriented Psychology Trainer. He has been in private practice for thirty years, with specialties including family therapy often involving sex and intimacy issues, and anger problems; and developing techniques for working with patients in comas and their care-givers. He frequently facilitates conflict work with large groups in hot spots in the Middle East where he has developed tools for working with trauma at the personal and community level. He specializes in working with body symptoms and their connection to the world. He teaches Process-oriented Psychology at the Process Work Centre of Portland Oregon, as well as worldwide. His published books are Changing Ourselves, Changing the World; Vital Loving; Angry Men, Angry Women, Angry World; Leap Into Living; and Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict. He has three new books coming out in 2010 including Inside Coma; The Dance of Sex; and Dreaming Money.
by Mark
January 3, 2011 in Cared-for Children, Child & Family, children, children's home, Trauma
Recently the DSM (global mental health diagnosis manual) is being revised and there has been a very controversial debate as to whether developmental trauma can be considered a mental health condition in children. Bessel van der Kolk and Dr Bruce Perry are two very interesting players in this debate. This idea was eventually thrown out, but had it been accepted it would have been the only childhood disorder based upon and acknowledging the early life events in childhood. In other words it would have acknowledged that what we do to children actuallymatters. See the referenced article from Good works in Trauma.
by Mark
by Mark
October 16, 2010 in Cared-for Children, Child & Family
John Bowlby’s son talks about secure and insecure attachment. This is an extract from a larger piece on Secure Attachment & the Key Person in Daycare.
by Mark
October 2, 2010 in bullying, Cared-for Children, Child & Family, children, children's home, gardening with children, kids, schools, Trauma
This blog is almost up and running. Here we will share ideas about; sustainable parenting, supporting the wellbeing, creativity and vitality of young people, how families can thrive and enrich themselves, and much more…
by Mark
December 21, 2008 in Adoption, Cared-for Children, Pervasive Developmental Trauma, PTSD, Trauma
When we think of trauma and it’s effects we often think of one or several traumatic events. Neurological research is showing that some children experience a kind of ongoing ambient trauma which impacts and feedbacks through different stages of their development from conception, in the womb, at birth, and in their earlier childhood years. My understanding of brain theory is that such complex and pervasive trauma is thought to become layered in the archeology of the brain throughout development. Behavioural symptoms reflect the levels of development which are affected. For example, if language is that main system under development at the time of trauma, then language is affected.
Various psychologists are currently lobbying for Pervasive Developmental Trauma to be included as a disorder in DSM-V, as such children meet some but not all of the criteria for PTSD. This is important as there is a large tendency for adopted children and children in care, who can display a wide range of disturbing behaviours, to be seen as ‘bad’ rather than as experiencing a challenging life process.
However, as well as having it’s advantages, there are also disadvantages of thinking in terms of ‘disorders’. Such state-oriented thinking can have the tendency to become deterministic i.e. that through such developmental disturbances the child is damaged goods, destined to behave badly or become a destructive citizen. That such states are seen as static, rather than as life processes with inherent mystery and potential for unfolding.
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