Posts by nrutter

An important reminder

When an election is called, civil servants are subject to strict rules about what they can and can’t do. The…

Hearing from adopters about living with traumatised young people

In March 2016 I went to Kings Cross to meet with someone I had been talking to on Twitter for…

Call for Manuscripts: Frontiers in Psychiatry

Please see this Call for Manuscripts for work related to Understanding Child to Parent Violence: From Development to Intervention. The…

A new way of thinking: The Explosive Child

I was first recommended this book by Kate Iwi in 2018, and reminded of it again reading the recent paper…

The Importance of Co-Production in work with young people

The Respect Young People’s Service people have been busy! Following on from my last post, they have also been looking…

Creating a National Picture of Understanding of CAPVA

I am very excited to bring to your attention the landmark CAPVA (child and adolescent to parent violence and abuse)…

The experiences of families caring for children with FASD: “no one came to help”

It is suggested that the prevalence of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is greater than autism, and yet there remains…

Call for Abstracts

Learning from the internet

We are only just coming to the end of January, but it has been interesting already to read a number…

Bringing the focus on families experiencing CAPVA in Merseyside.

In the run up to the end of last year I began piling up “things to read” – and am…