Child Psychology for the Everyday Parent
Podcasts featuring Paula as a guest
Understanding Body Matters Podcast
Supporting Children with Psychologist and Play Therapist Paula Noble
31 July 2023
On this week’s episode Paula speaks about her experiences and practice working with children, adolescence, and parents. Providing professional support including counselling support, parenting strategies, a range of psychometric assessments, diagnosis, and intervention. Highlighting that as a child psychologist, there is so much value in supporting children at young ages especially in overcoming early challenges, building resilience, working on emotional regulation, fostering positive relationships, and learning how to thrive. So please welcome our next special guest, Paula!
Blog Posts
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Developing Initiative
The most widely known theory of life-span development, the Psychosocial Stages, was formulated by Erik Erikson (1963). He looked at the psychological needs of the individual, conflicting with needs of society. Erikson proposed that at each stage there is a developmental task, or a challenge, that is normative for that period of life. There is an opportunity for steaming ahead, or a danger point for psychological derailment.
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Motivation to Learn
What is it that motivates a child to want to learn? This is an important question as motivation—the will, inner drive, and self belief— provides the impetus, energy and direction required to develop and sustain skills, knowledge and competencies necessary to perform academic tasks. Research suggests it is the will to learn which precedes the attainment of academic skills.
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Early Childhood Matters
The Centre for Community Child Health, within the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, released a summary of the evidence on the impact of experiences in the first 1000 days of life (www.rch.org.au/ccch/first-thousand-days).
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Parenting a Child’s Brain
John Bowlby's attachment theory proposes that infants are biologically predisposed to form attachment relationships with parents who are the source of comfort and protection. The way parents engage and interact with their baby forges new brain pathways in their higher (upstairs) brain – frontal lobes. When a parent is warm and responsive to their infant when they are distressed or afraid, the brain will connect in a secure attachment style.