Laura Hanbury
Laura Hanbury is a family practitioner and PhD research student at Royal Holloway University. Her current PhD research focuses on the behaviours of adolescents in care, alongside the attachment organisation of foster carers and how it affects the way they may perceive and respond to the children that they care for. Having worked in the field of family support and child protection for over 15 years, she also works as an independent lecturer, author and trainer, specialising in the analysis of family dynamics and behavioural responses through the lens of attachment theory and research. Laura’s overall work is centred around the study of how behaviour develops in the context of experienced attachment trauma.
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This practice guide will consider professional curiosity in relation to the most difficult areas of child protection practice and look at the potential barriers to developing a curious mind when it comes to finding meaning in the social and emotional responses of others.
This guide is aimed at supporting professionals to recognise the role that shame might play in a child or adult’s life and how to take steps to minimise its ongoing affects. It will study its links to attachment and trauma by looking at how the development of shame is linked to specific survival strategies, whilst also explaining its protective purpose. By reframing the behavioural presentations of shame by looking at it as a survival response, it may allow us to respond differently to the behaviours that we see.
Explores the overlap in presentation between ADHD and children who have experienced trauma to help social workers be alert for misdiagnosis and support all children
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