by Evan Dwan | Jul 17, 2022 | News |
It was many years ago that the villagers of Downstream recall spotting the first body in the river. Some old timers remember how spartan were the facilities and procedures for managing that sort of thing. Sometimes, they say, it would take hours to pull 10 people from...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
Ed Tronick, in analysing mother-infant dyads, noticed that both engage in a dance of mutual regulation (Gold, 2017). Many times during this dance, the mother and infant are not in tune. The baby might smile and the mothers looks away. This is called a ‘mismatch’. In...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 22, 2021 | News |
Belsky (2019) defines resilient children as those who rebound from early life traumas to create successful lives. Developmentalists find that children who are resilient have a special talent, are good at regulating emotions, have high sense of self-efficacy, optimism...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 4, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore describes stress as a change or threat of change which demands adaptation by the organism. Elsewhere Schore describes stress as the occurrence of an asynchrony in a relational interaction in infancy (and indeed at later stages of life). A period of...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 11, 2021 | News |
In order to survive we need efficient ways to process information. The stress response system is one of the ways we process information. The stress response system is a result of evolution and enabled us to survive and thrive. Each stress response system is highly...
