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...
Trauma-informed practice and care

Trauma-informed practice and care

Addressing trauma is not a one-size fits all approach (Machodi, 2020). Trauma-informed practice seeks to ensure individuals and communities are empowered and informed about trauma and facilitated to be collaborators to formulate treatment. Judith Herman writes that...
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...