Attachment-based early interventions

Attachment-based early interventions

Attachment plays a central role in setting the path for developmental risks and providing opportunities for early intervention and prevention. Intervention research has highlighted the role of relational interventions in promoting resilient functioning by supporting...
Prevention science

Prevention science

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men” Fredrick Douglass Converging evidence shed new light on the potential for primary prevention in mental health for young people. Prevention in mental health should not be the responsibility of mental...
Early parenting and prevention

Early parenting and prevention

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Benjamin Franklin There is a public health fable that runs like this: If, as a doctor, you see 98 kinds out of 100 coming to you with diarrhoea after drinking water from a well, what should you do? On the one hand, you...
Early intervention and prevention of pathology

Early intervention and prevention of pathology

The roots of psychopathology and other illnesses lie in early developmental experiences. How might we intervene to prevent the development of mental illness in the early years? Given the scope of the problem, as demonstrated by the ACE’s research, it would seem that...