by Evan Dwan | Jan 3, 2022 | News |
Resilience can be defined as “the potential or manifested capacity of a dynamic system to adapt successfully to disturbances that threaten the function, survival or development of the system.” (Masten, 2015, P.187). Parenting is central to both child and family...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 3, 2022 | News |
The sciences of early development, disorder prevention and health have, according to Robert Emde (2019), undergone huge advances in recent times. This has grown out of a greater awareness of suffering, the adverse effects of unattended early risk and has given energy...
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...
