by Evan Dwan | Jan 2, 2022 | News |
Addressing trauma is not a one-size fits all approach (Machodi, 2020). Trauma-informed practice seeks to ensure individuals and communities are empowered and informed about trauma and facilitated to be collaborators to formulate treatment. Judith Herman writes that...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 2, 2022 | News |
The impact of trauma requires approaches that address the sensory aspects many survivors report (Machiodi, 2020). Expressive arts therapy uses art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing and imaginative play to facilitate mainly nonverbal...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 2, 2022 | News |
Trauma does not determine outcomes – rather it is the response of the person’s social group that is critical (Bloom, 2013). The realisation that humans tend to repeat traumatic experience has led to the fear that our society is suffering post-traumatic deterioration...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 26, 2021 | News |
The loving mother’s right brain to right brain connection up-regulates positive and down-regulates negative emotions to shape the child’s right subcortical-cortical circuits during the brain’s growth spurt in the first two years of life (Schore, 2019). This right...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 24, 2021 | News |
Predictable patterns of disruption followed by repair in relationships act as a neural exercise that improves the child resilience (Porges, in Mitchell, Tucci and Tronick). These sequences enable self-regulation to emerge out of predictable co-regulation. As...
