by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
A lot of disturbance in development is caused by caregivers’ failure to respond to young children’s healthy needs for closeness and fears of separation (Sroufe et al., 2009). Ethnographic data from societies around the world demonstrates that mothers in traditional...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2022 | News |
For the Batek people of peninsular Malaysia, infancy was a time of ‘indulgence’ and ‘constant physical contact’ (Endicott and Endicott, 2014). The infant’s cries were always responded to by a parent, or any adult or child nearby. The infant spent most of its time in a...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 18, 2022 | News |
Since the 1990’s significant changes from statistically normative wild African elephants have been observed which are being linked with stressors that have disrupted social processes (Bradshaw and Schore, 2007). These include culls, poaching, habitat fragmentation and...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 17, 2022 | News |
Experience, both good and bad, “literally becomes the neuroarchaelogy of the individual’s brain” (Perry, 2008, p.4). Neurodevelopment is the result of how genetic potential is expressed through the timing, nature, frequency and pattern of experience. The brain...
by Evan Dwan | May 14, 2022 | News |
The right brain is critical to survival functions like allocation of attention, positive and negative affect, regulating stress and the ability to read other’s emotions intuitively in an empathic way (Schore, 2019a). Across the lifespan the right-lateralised...
