by Evan Dwan | Dec 26, 2021 | News |
The loving mother’s right brain to right brain connection up-regulates positive and down-regulates negative emotions to shape the child’s right subcortical-cortical circuits during the brain’s growth spurt in the first two years of life (Schore, 2019). This right...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 24, 2021 | News |
Predictable patterns of disruption followed by repair in relationships act as a neural exercise that improves the child resilience (Porges, in Mitchell, Tucci and Tronick). These sequences enable self-regulation to emerge out of predictable co-regulation. As...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 24, 2021 | News |
Hill (2015) writes: “Affect is at the core of our being, a measure of our heart. It excites and deflates us, connects and distances our relations with others. It organises and undoes us”. When affect is regulated we are at our best – adaptive, engaged and...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
Development involves growth, maintenance and regulation of the organism (Santrock, 2017). Carl Jung claimed that the psyche is a self-regulating system (McNiff, 2004). Self-regulation is an essential organising principle in the development of living systems (Schore,...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 23, 2021 | News |
According to the United Nations, human resilience is about removing the barriers that hold people back in their freedom to act (Ryan and Waite, 2020). It is concerned with enabling disadvantaged and excluded groups to be active agents in shaping their destiny. A...
