by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
During adolescence the brain changes almost as rapidly as it does during infancy (Beckett and Taylor, 2019). During this period, like in the early years, synaptic pruning takes place in which neural pathways that are not reinforced disappear while those regularly used...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
Love between the mother and the infant, writes Allan Schore (2019), in early critical periods, shapes the trajectory of development of the right brain in all the later stages of life. Mutual love can be understood as a shared process of interactive regulation of...
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...
