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Kinship Care, Family Support & Early Intervention | Bobby Dean | Care Visions Professional Talk

2026-10-0740:39

What happens when a young person can no longer live with their parents and someone within their wider family steps in? Bobby Dean shares his own experience of going to live with his grandparents as a teenager and the stability they gave him at a difficult point in his life. Years later, Bobby discovered there was a name for what his grandparents had done: kinship care. In conversation with Humphrey Hawksley, he explores the pressures facing kinship carers, the importance of early support, and...

Is Depression Really a Chemical Imbalance? | Prof Joanna Moncrieff | Care Visions Family Talk

2026-09-2344:11

For decades, depression has often been explained as a chemical imbalance in the brain. Professor Joanna Moncrieff argues that the evidence simply doesn’t support that explanation. In this episode of Family Talk, Lucy Johnston speaks with Joanna about the serotonin theory of depression, what antidepressants actually do and why Joanna believes their effects may be better understood as altering or blunting emotions rather than correcting an underlying abnormality. They discuss the origins of the...

What Children in Care Really Need - Mirela Zoltan on Trauma, Trust & Belonging | Care Visions Professional Talk

2026-09-0945:29

Mirela Zoltan spent the first three years of her life in an orphanage in Romania before being adopted and taken to the United States. What followed was a childhood marked by disrupted relationships and repeated moves through adoptive, foster and residential settings. Mirela was frequently seen as a child with challenging behaviour. Looking back, however, she describes something much simpler underneath it: she wanted to be loved, wanted and listened to. She needed connection and a sense of bel...

Could We One Day Help Identify ADHD by Looking at the Brain? | Dr Monica Berntsen | Care Visions Family Talk

2026-08-2644:55

Could we one day help identify ADHD by looking at the brain? That is the question at the beginning of this episode of Care Visions Family Talk, in which Lucy speaks with Dr Monica Berntsen, introduced as a practising neuropsychologist who has spent more than a decade working with people with ADHD and autism. The discussion begins with the way ADHD is currently assessed. Dr Berntsen describes existing assessment as heavily subjective and questionnaire-based. She says that what is now kno...

Family Finding & Kinship Care: Why Relationships Matter | Kevin Campbell | Care Visions Professional Talk

2026-08-1243:39

What happens when a child or young person in care is described as having “nobody”? For Kevin Campbell, that question became the starting point for research that would ultimately challenge some deeply established assumptions within child welfare. In this episode of Care Visions Professional Talk, Humphrey Hawksley speaks with Kevin Campbell of Pale Blue and Family Finding about family connection, kinship care, child development and what happens when children become separated from the relations...

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