Lovingly Alice

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My name is Alice, I'm 27 years old and I'm a digital designer currently working from home, which means that I have a lot of free time and flexibility, so it is easy for me to take care of your cats any time in the day.

This question is an adaptation from George Kaplan and Mary Main’s (1985) ‘Adult attachment interview’ and aims to connect the parent to the child’s lived experience of the care that they provide. I had a brilliant session this week with a mum whose children have been on the brink of removal by the local authority and they had exhausted their options of intervention. 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 A name that dominated the book was a legendary ballet choreographer named Balanchine who was notorious for favoring and ultimately marrying various ballerinas, a cut-throat intensity to push dancers beyond their physical limits and caution them to keep their weight down, or "lengthen". Despite multiple boundaries Balanchine would cross of propriety, iconic ballerinas worshipped him unquestioningly. Even after his death Balanchine's teachings dominated as the standard of excellence and would be employed by others. A foster carer who doesn’t mentalize for the child can not offer them the sensitive and attuned response they need, especially when they may be demonstrating challenging or distressing behaviour.

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Alice — artist, athlete, banjo player, sailor, founder of the Staten Island Garden Club, the first woman to own a car in the borough — has come as close to absolute freedom as a woman of her era could come, transcending the narrow roadways of her time with her wheels, her lens, and her love. Alice Austen and her bicycle, circa 1897. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Social Work England say: "Peer reflection means that you have discussed the content of your CPD activity with a peer, your manager or another professional. This video intervention relies on the parent and child spending time doing an activity together each week that is recorded and then we review this together. Aside from being a great tool to help mum connect to what her daughter is thinking and feeling and better understand her needs, it has the added bonus of shining a light on their connection, their smiles, their laughter…and honestly it can be nothing short of magic... and I am so grateful I get to do this work and see how positive it can be for families ✨ Record my learning and reflection on a regular basis and in accordance with Social Work England's guidance on continuing professional development.

Turning a closet into a darkroom, Alice proceeded to teach herself the art of photography, taking meticulous process notes to refine her technique. Not yet out of her teens and already one of the most accomplished photographers in America, she ventured out into world to document its vibrant life, dedicating hers to her art. In an era when almost no women practiced photography — an activity both intensely physical and intensely delicate, given the size, weight, and fragility of early cameras and glass plates — she became the first American woman known to work outside the studio, creating what we now know as street photography. Young bicycle messenger, part of Alice Austen’s 1896 series Street Types of New York. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Robb didn't make it as a professional dancer. Ultimately, her body was not built for the exacting requirements demanded of Balanchine's ballerinas, and she moved on to other things. Yet ballet had wrapped its pointe ribbons around her soul—she could leave ballet, but it would not leave her. Thus this book: Don't Think, Dear is part memoir of being a student, part dive into the history of Balanchine and all that surrounded him: the New York City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, the Balanchine technique (which enabled dancers to perform surprising new feats, but at a steep cost to their bodies), the way Balanchine demanded dangerous thinness and complete submission of his dancers. This is essentially the conclusion to every chapter or hypothesis, and to the book itself, which I guess is fine even though it's something we've seen discussed for close to 50 years, but the author doesn't go any further than that, and also doesn't include any more recent evidence that suggests things are starting to move in a new direction, especially as women over the past decade or so have been slowly but surely taking steps to change things. I'm not arguing that ballet culture ISN'T as she describes, and even despite recent developments, I'm 100% positive that women are still terrified to speak up about what they endure lest it cost them a spot in the company they spent years training for, but to write a book in 2023 and only include examples of ballet culture from 2004 and earlier is not something a College Writing 101 professor would allow, so it's wild that editors let it fly. I am an animal lover, I have two lovely cats, called Alfie & Isla, and I've always had pets growing up (my parents currently have 3 dogs, one cat and a turtoise!). I really enjoy being around animals, so it is exciting for me to go out and meet your pets.

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Dr Loving has worked within the field of Child Protection for eleven years and currently works independently providing parental assessments and intervention work for local authorities. Dr Loving delivers attachmentand relationship based practice training to social care practitioners within the UK and Ireland. 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. 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. Mentalizing means you can make links between how your own thoughts and feelings influence your behaviour. We also mentalize for others – attuning to what another person may be thinking or feeling and how this may be impacting their behaviour.