Past Programs
Medical Procedures - 2004
Attachment Therapy and Pseudoscience in Psychology
18/12/2004
A New South Wales Ombudsman's report on child deaths in neglectful households paints a desperate picture for abused kids in Australia. Often adoptive or foster parents are left to pick up the pieces for children traumatized by histories of abuse or neglect. Some children's behaviours become so toxic and destructive they attract a psychiatric diagnosis called Attachment Disorder. But in the USA one therapeutic approach for these kids, called holding therapy, has been linked to the deaths of children, and sparked a heated debate about rise of pseudoscience in psychology. Natasha Mitchell investigates...
Ouch! - Understanding Children's Pain...and Pain Goes on Exhibition.
31/07/2004
Pain - some people take sadistic pleasure in it, most of us fear and revile it. When it's chronic, pain can be a gruelling experience that's surprisingly hard to describe in words. But what if you're a child who has to undergo repeated and painful medical procedures? How do you make sense of the experience? This week, the challenge of measuring and managing pain in babies and young children. And, a tour through the London Science Museum's recent exhibition on the science and culture of pain.
Margaret and Pauline: Resilience in Mental Illness
15/05/2004
Margaret Cook and Pauline Miles are well known figures in West Australia's mental health advocacy community. Born as identical twins in Wales, they grew up in the UK with a mother with major mental illness and a shared history of abuse. Now themselves parents of adult children, they join Natasha Mitchell this week to reflect on their own experiences of hospitalisation in psychiatric wards, the search for identity in suffering, and inspiration in healing, activism and awareness.
