by Cathy Tompkins, MA | May 13, 2021 | Thoughts for Families, Uncategorized
We are into this pandemic for over a year. I hope you are able to get vaccinated. So many of us have health issues that prevent us from getting vaccinations; it is up to the rest of us to do what we can to achieve herd immunity. I had no problems with the first...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Apr 14, 2021 | Thoughts for Families
When I’m not annoyed, irritable, distracted, angry, hungry, or otherwise dysregulated, it is pretty cool what my neocortex can come up with in the way of creative responses to the children in my care. I’ll share an old, favorite story then another, less productive but...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Mar 11, 2021 | Thoughts for Families
On a recent call, an AZAFAP foster mom shared that the three girls who have lived with her for 3 years (one since birth) are being considered for reunification. She was being a trooper, but anger and frustration were her go-to feeling states. As we listened to her...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Feb 11, 2021 | Thoughts for Families
Changes, Some Small, Some Huge Part of what you do as a parent to a child with a history of chronic trauma is celebrate small changes. Sometimes you must journal behavioral observations to even recognize those changes. It is very confusing when the progress you saw...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Jan 12, 2021 | Thoughts for Families
I remember a 15-year-old girl and her mother. I always held family therapy with everyone in the same room. Some of my colleagues thought I was crazy to try to manage such a dynamic group of people in various types of pain, but I love a challenge. In our next...
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