Lovingly Alice

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My PhD research focused on exploring the influencing factors on the outcome of parent-child intervention and followed parents placed in either a residential or foster-care placement with their babies for 12 weeks. I identified distinct thematic differences between those who had a positive outcome and returned to the community with their babies and those that did not, and these themes became factors termed ‘change facilitators’ or ‘change inhibitors’. My study concluded that a focus on identifying ‘change facilitators’ and ‘change inhibitors’, at the family assessment stage could help to inform the types of interventions required. This approach may therefore provide families with an increased likelihood of making the desired improvements and remaining together. As you might guess from that last quote, the book does dive into the woke, feminist mindset so prevalent among those Robb’s age (she’s in her early 30s). We hear a lot about #metoo and how NYCB founder Balanchine and NYCB choreographer Peter Martins were abusive to dancers. Balanchine claimed to choose dancers “as you would choose horses.” The book’s title comes from a Balanchine quote to a dancer: “Don’t think, dear. Just do.” As the years go on, Robb feels “guilty about harboring affection for a system that clearly harmed women.” She is thrilled to attend a ballet and see a “gender nonconforming” dancer “(who uses they/them pronouns)” in a female role. She is ecstatic when, during covid, she sees dancers performing in masks. The capacity to mentalize is “the ability to understand behaviour in light of underlying mental states and intentions” ( Slade 2005). 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.

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. Alice has worked within the field of child protection for 11 years and currently works independently providing parental assessments and intervention work for local authorities. She completed her PhD within the social care department at Royal Holloway University, which focused on exploring influencing factors on the outcomes of intervention, with a particular interest in the impact of childhood trauma on parenting capacity. Alice delivers attachment and relationship-based practice training to social care practitioners within the UK and Ireland. Alice is an honorary lecturer for the Centre for Child Protection at Kent University and has published work in the Child and Family Social Work and Children England journals. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled ‘Working with cases of neglect and emotional abuse’, featured in ‘Child Protection and the Care Continuum’. She has previously worked with Community Care, providing social workers with effective direct work techniques and producing guidance on understanding attachment relationships and writing about this in court. Over her long life, Alice Austen took more than 8,000 photographs, turning her sensitive and daring lens toward the lives of immigrants, child laborers, New York “street types,” and people for whom Victorian culture had neither terms nor tenderness and whom we might call LGBT today. Alice Austen’s friend Maria Ward, who went by Violet, with partner, circa 1890. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Drawing on his magazine connections, he secured publication of Alice’s work in Life, which raised enough funds to migrate her to a nursing home. He then built on the initial visibility to organize an exhibition of her work at a local museum in 1951 — the first and only in her lifetime. When the show opened on October 7, now celebrated as Alice Austen Day, Alice was there with Gertrude by her side. A friend’s young sons in what Alice called her “express wagon,” May 1889. ( Alice Austen House archive.) Six women, Staten Island, 1895. ( Alice Austen House archive.)A key aspect of the ‘secure base’ element of the attachment relationship is for the child to have a sense that the parent enjoys spending time with them. If this is not the case then this is an important element to focus on during your interventions.

At some point in the conversation it felt relevant to share about my daughter having had acid reflux and how much I struggled during the first year because of this. She said her daughter also had the same. 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. 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... This may be something that this child has never really experienced before but it is central to them feeling safe and cared for with the family they now find themselves in. 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.Like Vivian Maier— another visionary photographer who also captured the street life of the city and who also, by the scant surviving evidence, was very probably queer — Alice Austen lived out her life without artistic recognition. Like Maier’s work, Austen’s was brought to light by a man who chanced upon it and knew he had chanced upon greatness. Unlike Maier, Austen was still alive.

Alice F. Loving, 77, of Galion and formerly of Marion, passed away Monday, August 23, 2021 at her daughter’s residence surrounded by her family.

Please repost and share this far and wide, I would love to have as many people take part in this as possible! Tell your colleagues, tell your family, tell the lovely, loud, quirky, cat loving, business support lady you love (surely every team has one of these?!). Dom welcomes woodturner Shannon from Northumberland and upcycler Ryan from south Wales into his Maker’s Marquee. Shemmings, D., Shemmings, Y., Wilkins, D., Febrer, Y., Cook, A., Feeley, F., & Denham.C. (2013) Tools social workers can use to talk to children. Available: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/tools-social-workers-can-use-to-talk-to-children/ The guide is written by Alice Loving, a practitioner, academic and trainer specialising in parenting assessments, attachment, trauma and mentalization. Alice is a lecturer at the Centre for Child Protection at Kent University.