Jeremy’s Changing Family
Age : 5 – 10 years
Jeremy isn’t really sure why there needs to be these new kids coming into his home where he lives with his mum and dad and his brother, Riley. Jeremy struggles with the reality of his family changing as other children who are unable to live with their families come and live with his.
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Release date : 11th March 2021
Trauma-Informed & Accumulation-Aware Approaches to Child Protection
Authors : India Bryce & Simone Collier
Trauma-informed and accumulation-aware child protection frameworks emphasize understanding the complex nature of adversity that children experience. [MF1.1]Rather than viewing harmful events in isolation, these frameworks recognize how multiple stressors, such as neglect, abuse, poverty, and systemic inequities, accumulate and shape a child’s development, behavior, and well-being. By integrating knowledge of trauma’s psychological and physiological impacts with awareness of social and environmental contexts, professionals can respond more effectively to children’s needs. This holistic perspective shifts child protection from a reactive model to a proactive, healing-centered practice that prioritizes safety, empowerment, and long-term resilience.
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Release date : January 2026
Cumulative Childhood Harm in Family Law and Criminal Justice Systems
Authors : India Bryce & Simone Collier
Within family law and criminal justice systems, childhood harms are often addressed in isolation, despite their interconnectedness. When legal processes fail to prioritize relational and developmental realities, they increase trauma rather than mitigate it. Understanding cumulative childhood harm reveals how legal interventions shape life experiences, influence future justice system interactions, and interrupt or reinforce cycles of vulnerability. Examining this concept highlights the need for trauma-informed, coordinated responses that recognize children as developing individuals whose experiences with these systems shape their futures.
Cumulative Childhood Harm in Family Law and Criminal Justice Systems explores how repeated adverse experiences in childhood are shaped by interactions with family law and criminal justice systems. It examines whether legal responses protect children from harm or contribute to ongoing trauma, disadvantage, and system involvement. This book covers topics such as rehabilitation, civil law, and criminal justice, and is a useful resource for government officials, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and scientists.
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Release date : January 2026
Cumulative Harm, the Child and the Human Services Professional.
Cumulative Harm, the Child and the Human Services Professional is a Cengage Compose eBook. It has been compiled by Simone Collier and India Bryce of the University of Southern Queensland and is designed to meet the needs of students studying EDU3325 Understanding Child abuse and neglect for helping professions.
This customised eBook has been created with the content you need for your studies. Due to the process used to produce this customised eBook, it doesn’t offer the same functionality available in other Cengage eBooks, including read aloud and copy text.
Cumulative Harm and the Child in the Classroom.
Cumulative Harm and the child in the classroom is a Cengage Compose eBook. It has been compiled by Simone Collier and India Bryce of the University of Southern Queensland and is designed to meet the needs of students studying EDU5325 Child abuse and neglect; Intervention, Protection, Prevention.
This customised eBook has been created with the content you need for your studies. Due to the process used to produce this customised eBook, it doesn’t offer the same functionality available in other Cengage eBooks, including read aloud and copy text.
Child Sexual Abuse
- Editors: India Bryce, Wayne Petherick
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128194348
- eBook ISBN: 9780128194355
Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management covers the issue of child sexual abuse from several viewpoints. The book approaches child abuse from both victimization and offender perspectives, offering applied perspectives from experts and practitioners in the field, including discussions on policing, child safety and intelligence. This is a significant divergence from the literature most commonly provided in the market. Other sections cover psychological, physical abuse, and neglect, protective factors (at individual and community levels), recognition, responses, biopsychosocial outcomes (dealt with in discrete chapters), public policy, prevention, institutional abuse, children and corrections, treatment, management, and much more.
Child Abuse and Neglect
- Editors: India Bryce, Yolande Robinson, Wayne Petherick
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128153444
- eBook ISBN: 9780128153451
Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect, approaching the topic. from several viewpoints. First, child abuse is considered from both victimization and offending perspectives, and although empirical scholarship informs much of the content, there is applied material from international experts and practitioners in the field—from policing, to child safety and intelligence. The content is presented to align with university semester timetables in three parts, including 1) Typologies, methods and platforms for abuse, 2) Impacts and prevention, and (3) Issues surrounding recognition and management of child abuse. This book fills a void in the available university-level classroom-targeted literature, promoting the inclusion of child abuse as a standalone subject within university curricula. As such, readership includes undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and wider scholarship, as well as practitioners; including those from psychology, criminology, criminal justice and law enforcement.
Journal Articles
- Collier, S., Bryce, I., Trimmer, K., & Krishnamoorthy, G., (2022). Roadblocks and Enablers for teacher engagement in professional development opportunities aimed at supporting trauma-informed classroom pedagogical practice. Journal of Graduate Education Research, 10(3).
- Gavin, T., Krishnamoorthy, G., Ayre, K., Bryce, I., & Trimmer, K. (2021). Trauma Informed Behaviour Support with Youth in an Alternate and Vocational Education Settings: Exploring the acceptability of an online trauma informed education program. Preventing School Failure. Q2
- Gildersleeve, J., Bryce, I., Cantrell, K., Mullens, A., Durham, J., Johnson, R., Batorowicz, B., & Daken, K. (2022). Coping with COVID-19: An analysis of narratives provided to children. Heliyon https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09454 Q1
- Bryce, I., & Collier. (2022). A Systematic Literature Review of the Contribution of Accumulation to Psychological and Physical Injury of Trauma. Trauma Care
- Bryce, I., Beccaria, G., McIlveen, P., & Du Preez, J. (2022). Reauthoring: The lived experience of cumulative harm and its influence on career choice. Australian Journal of Career Development, 31(2), 93-107. Q2 https://doi.org/10.1177/10384162221101958
- Oberg & Bryce (2022). Teachers’ Perception of their Preparedness to Teach Traumatised Students: A Systematic Literature Review. Australian Journal of Teacher Education.
- Collier, S., Trimmer, K., Bryce, I., & Krishnamoorthy, G. (2022). Validation of the barriers and enablers for teachers accessing professional development of trauma informed pedagogy. Social Science and Humanities Open
- Bryce, I., McIlveen, P., & Beccaria, G. (2022). Lived Experiences of Cumulative Harm: A Retrospective Exploration of the Contributors to and Manifestations of Accumulated Childhood Maltreatment. Child Abuse Revie
- Collier, S., Bryce, I., Trimmer, K., & Krishnamoorthy, G., (2020). Evaluating Frameworks for Practice in Mainstream Primary School Classrooms Catering for Children with Developmental Trauma: An Analysis of the Literature. Children Australia.
- Bryce, I. (2020). Responding to the Accumulation of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Work Practice. Children Australia.
- Bryce, I. (2018). Cumulative Risk and Harm: The Condition of Accumulation in Child Maltreatment. Communities, Families and Children Australia. December, 2018
- Bryce, I. (2018). A Review of Cumulative Harm: A Comparison of International Child Protection Practices. Children Australia, 1-9. doi:10.1017/cha.2018.
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Collier, S., & Bryce, I. (2023). A Systematic Literature Review of the teaching considerations and practices provided to children in an educational setting with comorbid disability and developmentaltrauma. Children 10(8), 1289
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