By Luke Blackwood, Clinical Psychologist Finally! The base is complete, and your friends have taken up their positions around you. The team is hypervigilant, and the fight or flight system is active as you wait for the battle to come. Suddenly, a new threat emerges; you can hear someone yelling, and your body tenses up, …
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Luke Interviewed by 11 News Luke Blackwood, Clinic Director of Full Potential Psychology is Interviewed by 11 News Thank you to Christy Jones and all the Legends at 11 News for the interview. It was great showing you around Legend Land and sharing how our Minecraft therapy world has been helping to make therapy fun. Legend Land …
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By Luke Blackwood / Clinical Psychologist Well that came out of nowhere’, ‘he just went from 0 to 100’. Maybe he did, or maybe he missed the internal cues that he was beginning to escalate. An awareness of our internal states or introception is one of the least known sensory systems in the body. However, …
By Luke Blackwood / Clinical Psychologist “Why don’t they just stop and think?”. “It has to be their way or the highway”. Most parents ask themselves these questions while their child is making impulsive decisions and lacking flexibility in thinking. People have turned to medication, therapy and more recently games to help children develop in …
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It’s no secret that children of all ages love internet gaming, and in particular, the world’s most popular video game, Minecraft. And children with Autism are no exception to this global phenomenon. “When working with children with ASD I noticed that almost all of them play Minecraft,” says Clinical Psychologist Luke Blackwood. “Minecraft is an …
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I recently let out a sigh of relief as I put down the phone. My sister had just returned from Germany, safe and sound. Given Germany’s current situation I was expecting her account to be characterised by fear and the management of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). It was not. She told me of the family she was …
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