by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
There is cross species evidence for multigenerational continuity of patterns of maternal care (Champagne, 2014). In humans, attachment styles are consistent across generations and evidence suggests that cycles of abuse in humans and monkeys is perpetrated by the...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
“Why do infants, indeed all people, so strongly seek states of connectedness, and why does the failure to achieve connectedness wreak such damage on their mental and physical health?” asks Tronick (2007, p.488). Connection is the formation of dyadic states of...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
How do infants learn to regulate and build resilience? What kinds of attachment experiences do babies need to develop optimally? Babies are subject to feelings of distress that they are ‘utterly unequipped’ to manage alone (Wallin, 2007). Parents who can offer...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
In a study of college students videotaped during counselling sessions the psychologist focused on the student’s emotional state (Schore, in Siegel et al, 2021). A control was used where the counsellor chatted with clients about hobbies and entertainment without...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
A lot of disturbance in development is caused by caregivers’ failure to respond to young children’s healthy needs for closeness and fears of separation (Sroufe et al., 2009). Ethnographic data from societies around the world demonstrates that mothers in traditional...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
For the Batek people of peninsular Malaysia, infancy was a time of ‘indulgence’ and ‘constant physical contact’ (Endicott and Endicott, 2014). The infant’s cries were always responded to by a parent, or any adult or child nearby. The infant spent most of its time in a...
