by Evan Dwan | Apr 20, 2022 | News |
Ethnographers have described a set of generalisations that may be called the hunter-gatherer childhood model (Konner, in Hewlett and Lamb, 2005). These descriptions suggest that modern-day childcare practices are discordant with those in the human environments of...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
In relational trauma the caregiver is hyper-intrusive or inaccessible emotionally – disengaged with a tendency towards rejecting or inappropriate responses to the infant’s stress, providing minimal and unpredictable regulation (Schore, 2019a). This ‘caregiver induced...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
The still-face is an experimental paradigm of ‘traumatic abuse, specifically neglect’ (Schore, 2012). The infant is exposed to a ‘severe relational stressor’ – the mother holds eye contact but inhibits vocalisation and spontaneous emotional facial expressiveness or...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
Trauma in infancy includes abuse and neglect, both of which are under-reported – although neglect and abandonment are less likely to be identified than violent maltreatment (Schore, in Siegel and Solomon, 2003). Neglected infants show flattened affect while physically...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2022 | News |
Ed Tronick states: “The most widely accepted model of the caretaking environment of the human infant at birth and into the second year of life is that it should provide relatively continuous care and almost constant contact between the infant and mother, with frequent...
