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Your Child and Self-Control: Job or Jail?

…tween getting a good job or going to jail — and we learn it in preschool. “Children who had the greatest self-control in primary school and preschool ages were most likely to have fewer health problems when they reached their 30s,” says Terrie Moffitt, a professor of psychology at Duke University and King’s College London. Moffitt and a team of researchers studied a group of 1,000 people born in New Zealand in 1972 and 1973, tracking them from bir…

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Compassionate Child Rearing

…The way we treat our children in moments of stress is what stays with them throughout their development….

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Are You Hardy Enough?

…ople can become hardier with training. In childhood, parents who encourage children to feel capable to solve problems and who offer them support contribute to a child’s development of hardiness traits. For those who were not as fortunate in terms of the parenting they received, there is also hope that hardiness can be learned. Hardiness training has been found to improve people’s ability to deal with crises and the stress of everyday life. Similar…

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What Every Baby Knows

…T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. – Explore the inner workings of your child’s mind in this book by Harvard Professor of Pediatrics and renowned child development expert T. Berry Brazelton. Looking deep into the experiences of five families, this book helps make sense of children’s unique and universal experiences, exploring why they feel how they feel and how we can best respond as parents….

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Self-Reflective Approach to Becoming a Better Parent

…Becoming a better parent doesn’t only involve our present actions. To truly develop ourselves as parents, it is important to look at our own past . Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about how making sense of our own childhood experiences can help us to become better parents to our children….

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Child Abuse: Introduction, Assessment, Treatment

…ssment, reporting and treatment of child abuse. Topics covered include the development of child abuse reporting laws, the nature of abuse and neglect, definitions of child abuse, reporting requirements, identification and assessment guidelines, and treatment issues with children, families and adult survivors of child abuse and neglect. . . . . . . . . Daniel Taube, PhD, JD, is an associate professor at Alliant International University, specializin…

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Self-Reflective Approach to Becoming a Better Parent

…Becoming a better parent doesn’t only involve our present actions. To truly develop ourselves as parents, it is important to look at our own past . Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about how making sense of our own childhood experiences can help us to become better parents to our children….

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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Therapeutic Alliance and Emotional Communication

…o that would be in a relationship. At the same time, the movement in early development is showing that the growth facilitating environment — the attachment — is essentially the same kind of a situation whereby the personality of the mother at deeper levels – not her left hemisphere – but at deeper levels, are interacting and resonating with the baby. Actually, you’re looking at her autonomic nervous system regulating the other autonomic nervous sy…

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Make Sense of Your Past to Empower Your Future

…nsights, attachment research has revolutionized our understanding of human development, the internal world, and the consequences of development gone awry. No other empirically-based theory tells us more about how we become who we are – and how to change who we have become. We all carry around deep wounds, behaviors, and beliefs about ourselves and others from our earliest attachments, which unconsciously direct our lives. Research shows that when…

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CE Webinar: Secure and Insecure Love: An Attachment Perspective

…ers have noted the importance of close interpersonal relationships for the development of personality, character, and overall well-being. Attachment theory was originally created by a psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child developme…

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