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

Sound Sleep for a Sound Mind
Paula Noble Paula Noble

Sound Sleep for a Sound Mind

Sleep occupies one-third of our time on earth. Scientist still don't know why we need it. But what they do know, is we need it.

Research suggests that a poor night's sleep can trigger up to 30 percent rise in anxiety levels. Sleep disruption is now recognised as a contributing factor of all anxiety disorders with a reduction in sleep found to predict consequential day-to-day increases in anxiety.

Sleep is an important function of living beings. With that in mind, what do the experts tell us on how to harness this free source that only we can control?

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Childhood adversity
Paula Noble Paula Noble

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.

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What is working memory
Paula Noble Paula Noble

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.

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Gifted Children with Asperger’’s Syndrome.
Paula Noble Paula Noble

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.

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