by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
The key developmental tasks of childhood are learning to relate (communicate) and regulate. These are also two sides of the same coin – healthy relationships are one of the main resources for regulation that humans have evolved to draw on. This is particularly...
by Evan Dwan | May 20, 2021 | News |
Vincent Felitti of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centres, collaborating with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted a study involving over 17,000 middle-class adults to explore the effects of childhood adversity on adult health. It is now known as...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 24, 2020 | News |
Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. We might think of resilience as being like ‘toughness’. It is the ability of something to be elastic and to spring back into shape. Think of a tree blowing in a storm – it bends but it does not break and...
by Evan Dwan | May 22, 2020 | News |
If you were a farmer planting crops do you think it would make sense to plant all the same crops or to plant lots of different crops? Why? Well, let’s think about this. Before the Irish famine most of the people were heavily reliant on one crop: potatoes. So, what do...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 3, 2020 | News |
A resource can be defined as: A source of wealth or support, an available means A feature that enhances the quality of human life A source of information or expertise Something one resorts to in times of difficulty A possibility of relief or recovery An ability or...
