Agents of Hope
Agents of Hope
Joy, Connection and Play in the Early Years: Re-centring our approach to work with parents using hope and humanity with Dr Abigail Wright
Episode #11
In this episode, Dr Abigail Wright, an Early Years Specialist Educational Psychologist from South Wales. My discussion with Abi was broad and engrossing. It felt like it could have gone on all night. We discussed Abi's drive to become an EP from an early age, her experiences of becoming a parent in the same year that she graduated and her journey to fulfilling the role she does as a practitioner psychologist and mother of two young children. Our chat meandered between the importance of caregivers and professionals perception of them, parenting on a budget in a pandemic and the value of play in the Early Years.
It was a really interesting 90 minutes and I'm sure there will be a part II in the future. Exciting times.
Books:
- Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings by Veronica Read
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0415825571/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile
- The Science of Parenting by Margot Sunderland:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Parenting-Margot-Sunderland/dp/075663993X
Article:
Woodhouse, S. et al. (2019). Secure Base Provision: A New Approach to Examining Links Between Maternal Caregiving and Infant Attachment
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13224
Assessment tool/curriculum:
The Hawaii Early Learning Profile
https://www.vort.com/home.php?cat=1
Websites:
Suzanne Zeedyk
http://www.suzannezeedyk.co.uk
Anna Freud support for Early Years
https://www.annafreud.org/coronavirus-support/support-for-early-years/
Parenting Give it Time (Welsh Goverment):
BBC Tiny Happy People:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
Zero to Three:
NSPCC - Look, Say, Play, Singhttps://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/look-say-sing-play/