Understanding Complex Families
Workshops for practitioners and allied health professionals aiming to gain a deeper understanding of family psychology and theories to support families they are working with. Content of workshop: Family theories Ecological systems theory and applications Family systems theory and applications Family systems techniques: sculpting…
Attachment and Trauma
Workshops for practitioners working with children and young people who have experienced difficult life events such as displacement and trauma. The content of the workshop includes: ‘all behaviour is communication’ Being a detective Theoretical background Definitions internal working models Attachment through life cycles Links…
The Unexpected Counselling
Workshop sessions for teachers to support the development of active listening skills for complex situations: Content of sessions – active listening theory and activities non-verbal messages mirroring reflecting paraphrasing checkers sentence starters to help develop skills with reflecting/paraphrasing encouragers open and closed questions solution…
Adventures, feelings and drawing…
With the help of the Cool Cartoons book (Richard Galbraith 2008 DustyDogBooks, Mount Evelyn Australia), here is a series of emotion cards related to life adventures. Emotion cards and images tend to be helpful in sessions with children and young people in gaining a…
Behaviour Management
Presentation designed to support multi-disciplinary professionals to discuss and reflect on issues and practice related to understanding behaviour and supporting families with behaviour management. Definitions Theories such as Bronfenbrenner Case formulation and hypotheses through case studies Task analysis Tools and resources Consultation and peer…
A Toolkit to Opportunities and Challenges as Global Families
Website and blog designed to help families experiencing global migration and practitioners supporting them. Over 45 posts on different themes such as : Mind maps looking into different issues and challenges in preparation to an upcoming migration Tools such as checklists in preparation to…
Creativity in the Classroom
A presentation designed to support creativity and positive psychology in the classroom. Presentation including the following themes: experimentation with different tools and resources definitions importance of creativity listening to children’s voices: when learning is fun and amazing! positive emotions and learning: brain development reflections…
Global Migration
Global Migration: An insight into a personal journey Dr Pascale Paradis MEd, DEdPsy, MBPsS, MAPS Pascaleparadis.org Adventures as Global Families (FB) <3PPsychologies 13th TransTasmanian Conference for Community Psychologists Melbourne 21-22nd April 2017