by Evan Dwan | May 7, 2022 | News |
There are signs that various aspects of the human condition are under severe stress and this is being expressed in an increase in emotional disorders in childhood and adulthood (Schore, 2012). The roots of psychopathology lie in traumatic attachment experiences....
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
In relational trauma the caregiver is hyper-intrusive or inaccessible emotionally – disengaged with a tendency towards rejecting or inappropriate responses to the infant’s stress, providing minimal and unpredictable regulation (Schore, 2019a). This ‘caregiver induced...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
The still-face is an experimental paradigm of ‘traumatic abuse, specifically neglect’ (Schore, 2012). The infant is exposed to a ‘severe relational stressor’ – the mother holds eye contact but inhibits vocalisation and spontaneous emotional facial expressiveness or...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2022 | News |
Trauma in infancy includes abuse and neglect, both of which are under-reported – although neglect and abandonment are less likely to be identified than violent maltreatment (Schore, in Siegel and Solomon, 2003). Neglected infants show flattened affect while physically...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2022 | News |
Trauma-informed practice or trauma-informed care is based on the fact that people who seek care have experienced trauma at least once (Machiodi, 2020). Providing trauma-informed care means linking past experience to present health and reframing behaviours and...
