by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
The last fifty years have seen a huge amount of research that supports the view that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment experiences is the single most important influence on human development (Siegel and Sroufe, 2011). The work of John Bowlby led to a...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
A ‘developmental issues’ framework is different from classic stage theories (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). The issues described are not tasks that are passed or failed but each issue is negotiated in the process of development. Children develop patterns of...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
Children with insecure histories may do well for a time but are more vulnerable to subsequent problems (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). Resilience is a developmental process not a trait. Alan Sroude notes that had the his Minnesota study of risk and adaptation...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 20, 2021 | News |
The contribution of attachment to our understanding of development is without parallel (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). It played a central role in moving from a one-person psychology to a relational psychology where the relationship becomes the unit studied....
by Evan Dwan | Dec 19, 2021 | News |
There appears to be a broader context to the ACE’s (Adverse childhood experience) that wreak so much havoc on health and development: The intergenerational transmission of trauma and maladaptive attachment patterns. Intergenerational trauma is also referred to as...
