by Evan Dwan | May 26, 2021 | News |
Alicia Lieberman writes that risk and protective factors are central to understanding developmental influences on psychopathology. Risk factors are variables that increase the likelihood of an adverse outcome, while protective factors mitigate risk and promote...
by Evan Dwan | May 22, 2021 | News |
Jean Liedloff, in ‘The Continuum concept’, writes that the infant has no sense of the passage of time, and this, while in the womb or the loving arms of her care-giver is not a problem. She feels right. But when not in this state of ‘rightness’, when not in the arms...
by Evan Dwan | May 21, 2021 | News |
What do we need in order to grow and develop in healthy ways? Darcia Narvaez compares raising a child to building a house. A caregiver who is not responsive to the needs of the child is like having a crap craftsman who lays down faulty foundations in your house. This...
by Evan Dwan | May 19, 2021 | News |
Sue Gerhardt tells a story of a Patagonian culture in South America where women are treated like royalty when they are pregnant. They are awoken to the sound of beautiful music and entertained in a way that suits her tastes. In the same way that a sound tree produces...
