Co-regulation and containment: Building a resilient brain

Co-regulation and containment: Building a resilient brain

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...
Resilience, regulation and the window of tolerance

Resilience, regulation and the window of tolerance

Predictable patterns of disruption followed by repair in relationships act as a neural exercise that improves the child resilience (Porges, in Mitchell, Tucci and Tronick). These sequences enable self-regulation to emerge out of predictable co-regulation. As...
Affect, regulation and mentalization

Affect, regulation and mentalization

Hill (2015) writes: “Affect is at the core of our being, a measure of our heart. It excites and deflates us, connects and distances our relations with others. It organises and undoes us”. When affect is regulated we are at our best – adaptive, engaged and...
Regulation, dysregulation and double consciousness

Regulation, dysregulation and double consciousness

Development involves growth, maintenance and regulation of the organism (Santrock, 2017). Carl Jung claimed that the psyche is a self-regulating system (McNiff, 2004). Self-regulation is an essential organising principle in the development of living systems (Schore,...