by Evan Dwan | Jul 11, 2021 | News |
Childhood adversity ‘gets under the skin’ As Nadine Burke-Harris puts it, as our biography becomes our biology. Early adversity alters a child’s developmental trajectory, triggering chronic inflammation and hormonal changes that can last a lifetime. It can alter how...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
The ‘hidden epidemic’ of early adversity and toxic stress in society today means that a huge proportion of children and adults are chronically dysregulated leading to a vast array of health problems. How do we deal with a problem of this magnitude? Stress regulation...
by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
Alicia Lieberman writes that risk and protective factors are central to understanding developmental influences on psychopathology. Risk factors are variables that increase the likelihood of an adverse outcome, while protective factors mitigate risk and promote...
by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore writes that there is a need to act at the individual, family and culture levels to provide an optimal context for mental and physical health. In addition to fostering cognitive development there is a need to support social-emotional development via...
by Evan Dwan | May 22, 2021 | News |
Jean Liedloff, in ‘The Continuum concept’, writes that the infant has no sense of the passage of time, and this, while in the womb or the loving arms of her care-giver is not a problem. She feels right. But when not in this state of ‘rightness’, when not in the arms...
