Life span development

Life span development

Life span development highlights how and why people change over time (Berger, 2020). This approach takes into account all phases of life not just childhood or adulthood. It is important to understand that development is multidirectional – gains and losses occur at all...
Schore on love across the lifespan

Schore on love across the lifespan

Love between the mother and the infant, writes Allan Schore (2019), in early critical periods, shapes the trajectory of development of the right brain in all the later stages of life. Mutual love can be understood as a shared process of interactive regulation of...
The developmental issues framework: Continuity and change

The developmental issues framework: Continuity and change

A ‘developmental issues’ framework is different from classic stage theories (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). The issues described are not tasks that are passed or failed but each issue is negotiated in the process of development. Children develop patterns of...
Relationships create resilience: From parents to peers

Relationships create resilience: From parents to peers

Children with insecure histories may do well for a time but are more vulnerable to subsequent problems (Sroufe in Cassidy and Shaver, 2016). Resilience is a developmental process not a trait. Alan Sroude notes that had the his Minnesota study of risk and adaptation...