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
Childhood adversity
The landmark study on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) was conducted by Vincent Felitti, MD, and the team from Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, along with Robert Anda, MD, epidemiologist at the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta.
What is working memory
One of the key cognitive abilities crucial for academic attainment is working memory. This is the ability to briefly hold, maintain, or store information in mind while processing the same or other information. Auditory and visual information is retained in working memory for only a few seconds. For example in a typical adult only four to seven pieces of information can be maintained in working memory processing.
Gifted Children with Asperger’’s Syndrome.
Gifted children, on occasion, can present with unique characteristics that can be put down to their giftedness. However, some gifted children are twice exceptional. Their unique behaviours and characteristics may be the presentation of another condition, such as a learning disability or Asperger's Syndrome.
Epigenetics and child development
Epigenetics: the interaction between genes and environment.
There is a burgeoning body of research around epigenetics. What exactly is this and how important is it in the development of your child?