Stress, development and resilience

Stress, development and resilience

Belsky (2019) defines resilient children as those who rebound from early life traumas to create successful lives. Developmentalists find that children who are resilient have a special talent, are good at regulating emotions, have high sense of self-efficacy, optimism...
Stress and self-regulatory capacity

Stress and self-regulatory capacity

Allan Schore describes stress as a change or threat of change which demands adaptation by the organism. Elsewhere Schore describes stress as the occurrence of an asynchrony in a relational interaction in infancy (and indeed at later stages of life). A period of...
The stress response system

The stress response system

In order to survive we need efficient ways to process information. The stress response system is one of the ways we process information. The stress response system is a result of evolution and enabled us to survive and thrive. Each stress response system is highly...