by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
Childhood trauma has a profound impact on emotional, social, cognitive, behavioural and physical functioning (Perry et al, 1995). Developmental experiences determine the organisation and functioning of the mature brain. Adaptive responses to trauma include...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
The roots of disease in early development 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...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
The last fifty years have seen a huge amount of research that supports the view that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment experiences is the single most important influence on human development (Siegel and Sroufe, 2011). The work of John Bowlby led to a...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 21, 2021 | News |
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...
