Lovingly Alice

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This question can generate a large variety of answers. It is often a helpful starting point for exploring what is in the parent’s mind about their child and what they feel is in the child’s mind about them.

The capacity to mentalize is “the ability to understand behaviour in light of underlying mental states and intentions” ( Slade 2005). Most children have items of food, toys or activities that they are particularly fond of, and others that they may dislike. For the parent to be aware of these likes and dislikes can demonstrate not only their attunement to what is in their child’s mind, but also the way in which they view them as an autonomous individual.Reflect on my learning activities and evidence what impact continuing professional development has on the quality of my practice. This is eminently readable and well-paced nonfiction, never dry or dull, and I loved this frank but loving look into the world of ballet. Loving, A & Shemmings, D. (In press) Working with cases of neglect and emotional abuse. In Fernandez, F. &Delfabbro, P. (eds) Child Protection and the Care Continuum: Theoretical, Empirical and Practice Insights. Crows Nest: Routledge, pp.121-142 This extract focuses on a key principle of modern attachment theory – mentalization – in relation to parenting behaviours. The capacity to mentalize

If Chloe Angyal's Turning Pointe was a bit too much modern history and not enough memoir for you, but you want something more contemplative than a standard ballet memoir—or if you're interested in hearing more stories that don't read like a litany of successful performances with the occasional worrying injury thrown in— Don't Think, Dear makes for a compelling middle ground of personal narrative and broader view. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to peruse Robb's bibliography...In 1950, while working on his book The Revolt of American Women, Oliver Jensen — a thirty-six-year-old former Life magazine editor and writer — discovered 3,500 of Alice’s glass-plate negatives in the basement of the Staten Island Historical Society and was instantly taken with their uncommon genius. Leafing through phone books, he was staggered to realize that Alice was still alive, then doubly staggered to learn that she was living at a poorhouse.

A generation before Berenice Abbott, another trailblazing lesbian photographer, created her iconic series Changing New York, Alice Austen captured the changing face of the city — this ever-changing emblem of a city — during its most rapid period of transformation as modernity was finding its sea legs and America was becoming America. Postman collecting the day’s mail at 56th Street and Madison Avenue, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Newsboy at Grand Central Depot, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Organ-grinder with wife at 48th Street and Broadway, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Street-cleaner at 34th Street, New York City, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Two working children at City Hall Park, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.)

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It may be appropriate but potentially painful to first ask, ‘Do you feel that your child loves you?’, before then exploring ways they feel that the child shows this. It’s about time we shine a big old spot light on all the brilliant pieces of work that happen every single day for children and families. Please get in touch if you think you, your team, or a foster carer you know could benefit from this training, I would love this to have a positive impact on as many foster carers as possible 🙏🏻

The success of this intervention relies on her ability to feel seen, heard and understood by me and that gives me the best chance of helping her to do this for her daughter. I have worked within the field of child protection for 11 years, across local authority and residential settings. For the past seven years, I have worked independently for local authorities, completing parenting assessments and offering mentalization based parenting intervention. Author Alice Robb attended the prestigious School of American Ballet for several years until she was dismissed at age 14. Alice loved ballet as a girl, “the hyperfeminine trappings of it all, the unapologetic girlishness.” Ballet became a huge part of her life, as she spent hours in classes and performing. When she realized, as a young teen, that she wasn’t being cast for roles she wanted, and was then dismissed from the school, she went through a loss of identity and a period of grieving for what had been a huge part of her life. In this book, she tells a bit about her experience. But most of the book focuses on experiences of her ballet friends, as well as experiences of famous ballerinas as learned through their books.If you’re familiar with the ballet world, you’ll hear some familiar stories and the history of some very famous names, but there’s lots here that was new to me even as a ballet enthusiast. And if you’re new to the topic, this is an approachable and informative primer.