by Evan Dwan | Dec 24, 2021 | News |
Hill (2015) writes: “Affect is at the core of our being, a measure of our heart. It excites and deflates us, connects and distances our relations with others. It organises and undoes us”. When affect is regulated we are at our best – adaptive, engaged and...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
Development involves growth, maintenance and regulation of the organism (Santrock, 2017). Carl Jung claimed that the psyche is a self-regulating system (McNiff, 2004). Self-regulation is an essential organising principle in the development of living systems (Schore,...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
According to the United Nations, human resilience is about removing the barriers that hold people back in their freedom to act (Ryan and Waite, 2020). It is concerned with enabling disadvantaged and excluded groups to be active agents in shaping their destiny. A...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
Ed Tronick, in analysing mother-infant dyads, noticed that both engage in a dance of mutual regulation (Gold, 2017). Many times during this dance, the mother and infant are not in tune. The baby might smile and the mothers looks away. This is called a ‘mismatch’. In...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 22, 2021 | News |
Belsky (2019) defines resilient children as those who rebound from early life traumas to create successful lives. Developmentalists find that children who are resilient have a special talent, are good at regulating emotions, have high sense of self-efficacy, optimism...
