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Tag Archives: What is
What is trauma-informed practice? (6 principles)
Trauma can have a large impact on all aspects of a person’s life including how they interact with community services. (See What is Trauma? and The impact of trauma.) Trauma-informed practice is thus an important foundation for services and practitioners in … Continue reading
The impact of trauma
According to a large international study, around 70% of the world’s population have been exposed to a traumatic event (Benjet et al., 2016), although not all people who experience a traumatic event develop trauma. Of the people who were exposed … Continue reading
What is Trauma
Trauma is the result of our ability to cope being overwhelmed by facing (or believing we face) an extreme threat or danger. This post explores definitions and types of trauma. Continue reading
What are the 5 styles of conflict management?
I find the five styles of conflict management a useful, easy-to-understand way of thinking about different approaches to ways of responding to conflict: These five styles, identified by Kenneth Thomas in 1971 [1] and since refined by him and his … Continue reading
What is praxis?
Recently I was attacked for being “out of touch with the real world” with the person going on to say that “many academics have a profound inability to communicate with the less ‘enlightened.’” It seems to me that the attack … Continue reading
What is collective impact?
Collective impact is a multi-sector/multi-agency, collaborative leadership approach to large scale social change in communities that is usually place based (i.e., it is focused on a particular town, neighbourhood or community). Continue reading
4 types of power: What are power over; power with; power to and power within?
When I first started as a youth worker in 1991, I was working in a medium-term accommodation unit for young people who were homeless. I really struggled with being in a position of authority having just graduated from a welfare … Continue reading
An introduction to community engagement
[Updated 5 December 2017] As a Butteriss 1 highlights, community engagement means different things to different people and there is no widdepely accepted definition of community engagement. It might help to think about community engagement in three broad contexts: Community … Continue reading
What are program logic models?
[Updated 13 July 2017 to add a new resource.] Program logic models are like “road maps” which show how your initiative will work and why you believe that if you do certain things, you will get the results you are … Continue reading
What are authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved and authoritative parenting styles?
Not surprisingly, our parenting style has a major impact on our children. Based on the work of Baumrind [1, 2] and Maccoby and Martin [3] we often talk about four broad styles: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved and authoritative. These four parenting … Continue reading
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