Putting Care Into Education
This resource booklet has been compiled by a working group of professionals focused on the needs of care-experienced children and young people in Northern Ireland’s…
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The Offender Personality Disorder Pathway
Multi-method Evaluation of the Management, Organisation andStaffing (MEMOS) in high security treatment services for people with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) (October 2010) Mental…
Autism in Northern Ireland | Is anyone Listening?
A Report on stress, trauma & resilience and the supports needed by parents of children and individuals with ASD & professionals in the field of…
Aces and Epigenetic’s | The story told through our genes
What is Epigenetics? Each cell in our body contains 24,000 or so genes that make us who we are 1. The genes in our cells…
Finding a flexible response to our future
Gabor Maté (pronounced GAH-bor MAH-tay) is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade…
Shadow into light – Exploring the leading edge of healing
In all epochs and across all cultures, soothsayers, seers, evangelists, and doomsayers have pronounced humanity’s imminent demise. “Apocalypse now”—and now, and now. Despite the perennial…
Self-healing communities | A transformational process model for improving intergenerational health
A Transformational Process Model for Improving Intergenerational Health In the 1980s, when the timber and fishing industries declined, and in 2003, when the aluminum reduction…
Exploring young peoples awareness of mental health in Northern Ireland
More than 20% of young people here are suffering ‘significant mental health problems’ by the time they reach 18. We’re a group of nine young…
Developmental Trauma Close Up
Our previous article “The Repair of Early Trauma: A Bottom Up Approach” described Bruce Perry’s ‘neurosequential’ approach to working with early trauma. The article also…
How to differentiate freeze from shutdown
Freeze and collapse both involve the inability to move. but while they might appear similar, they are very different physiological responses to stress or trauma.…
