by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2021 | News |
Interventions to address adverse childhood experiences must use an ecological systems perspective along with a strengths-based approach rather than a deficit and problem-based approach, emphasising pathology. This must be supported by policy that addresses structural...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2021 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2021 | News |
Robert Emde argues that psychoanalysis is a developmental discipline that is well suited to add value to prevention science as, while it gives prominence to early experience it also assists parents and grandparents, in addition to children, in developmental...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2021 | News |
“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...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 12, 2021 | News |
“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...
