Attachment-based early interventions

Attachment-based early interventions

Attachment plays a central role in setting the path for developmental risks and providing opportunities for early intervention and prevention. Intervention research has highlighted the role of relational interventions in promoting resilient functioning by supporting...
Prevention science

Prevention science

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men” Fredrick Douglass Converging evidence shed new light on the potential for primary prevention in mental health for young people. Prevention in mental health should not be the responsibility of mental...
Early parenting and prevention

Early parenting and prevention

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Benjamin Franklin There is a public health fable that runs like this: If, as a doctor, you see 98 kinds out of 100 coming to you with diarrhoea after drinking water from a well, what should you do? On the one hand, you...
Transforming emotion schemes

Transforming emotion schemes

Leslie Greenberg writes that enduring emotional change occurs when two or more existing schemes are synthesised and the creation of higher-level schemes. In development, when opposing schemes are activated at the same time compatible elements from both schemes...