by Evan Dwan | Jun 29, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore writes that psychobiological attunement is thought to be mechanism that facilitates the formation of the attachment bond. The infant attaches to the caregiver who enables the infant to enter states of positive affect, while reducing states of negative...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 27, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore writes that the self-organisation of the developing brain occurs in relationship with another brain. This relational environment can be growth-facilitating or growth inhibiting. It is this environment that imprints into the early developing right-brain...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 24, 2021 | News |
For an infant, skin-to-skin warmth, the smell and sight of the caregiver, and their attentive and responsive actions is experienced as love. Thousands of loving interactions shape the developing brain – they build the foundation of the organising brain. When the...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
The key developmental tasks of childhood are learning to relate (communicate) and regulate. These are also two sides of the same coin – healthy relationships are one of the main resources for regulation that humans have evolved to draw on. This is particularly...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 11, 2021 | News |
It is an irony that most of our learning is done before we even go to school. The brain is developing at an accelerated rate for the first two years of life and what is learned here sets the stage for everything that is to come. Development is ‘front-loaded’ to enable...
