Not exact matches
By providing consistent, loving care from
early infancy, parents strengthen their relationship with their child and build a
healthy attachment.
If by a «leg up» we mean to arm our children
early and properly with the skills that are most likely to advance
healthy development, here are some research - based tips for promoting learning,
attachment, enthusiasm and well - being.
Expert Aimee Wheeler, explains the science behind the
attachment theory and how
attachment early on in life will biologically create pathways that will allow for
healthy relationships and interactions later on.
Attachment parenting is merely a term coined much later to tie these natural parenting choices and others in with the modern research of psychologists like John Bowlby who found that the
healthiest emotional and relational adults tended to have strong
early attachments with a parent or primary caregiver.
early in life - they don't learn to form
healthy attachments later in life.
The importance of
early infant
attachment is crucial to
healthy child development.
Children who never experience this secure
attachment early in life - they don't learn to form
healthy attachments later in life.
Well, it's OK from the perspective that when it's occurring at
early stages of development, it's a really strong indication that your child is forming
healthy attachments to the primary caregivers.
We are dedicated to nurturing
early attachment and
healthy brain development.
We believe that trauma - informed,
attachment - focused therapy and teaching parents therapeutic parenting strategies are significant factors in helping our children overcome their
early traumas and build resiliency and
healthy relationships.
While controversial and cruel, Harlow's research helped demonstrate the utmost importance of developing secure and
healthy attachments early in life.
HER focuses on strengthening the parent - infant relationship and repairing the impact of disruptions in
early attachment to promote child development and
healthy family functioning.
Children who never experience this secure
attachment early in life, according to proponents, don't learn to form
healthy attachments later in life.
Through a series of controversial experiments, Harlow was able to demonstrate the importance of
early attachments, affection, and emotional bonds on the course of
healthy development.
By providing consistent, loving care from
early infancy, parents strengthen their relationship with their child and build a
healthy attachment.
This bond formed in the intimate
attachment is a
healthy, natural occurrence that we learn
early in life.
We believe that trauma - informed,
attachment - focused therapy and teaching parents therapeutic parenting strategies are significant factors in helping our children overcome their
early traumas and build resiliency and
healthy relationships.
I specialize in infant and
early childhood mental health and I enjoy working with young children and their caregivers to support
healthy attachment and development.
Early childhood experiences that promote relational health lead to secure attachment, effective self - regulation and sleep, normal development of the neuroendocrine system, healthy stress - response systems, and positive changes in the architecture of the developing brain.86, 87 Perhaps the most important protective factors are those that attenuate the toxic stress effects of childhood poverty on early brain and child development.3,
Early childhood experiences that promote relational health lead to secure
attachment, effective self - regulation and sleep, normal development of the neuroendocrine system,
healthy stress - response systems, and positive changes in the architecture of the developing brain.86, 87 Perhaps the most important protective factors are those that attenuate the toxic stress effects of childhood poverty on
early brain and child development.3,
early brain and child development.3, 5,88
Over the past twenty years, developments in neuroscience have underscored the importance of
healthy attachments between infants and supportive caregivers in
early life.
In
early childhood, it is particularly important that children have the protections afforded by
attachment bonds with competent and loving caregivers, the stimulation and nutrition required for
healthy brain development, opportunities to learn and experience the pleasure of mastering new skills, and the limit - setting or structure needed to develop self - control.
Developmental Trauma Disorder can also be linked to Reactive
Attachment Disorder, a condition where a child is unable to create and sustain
healthy relationships and make good life choices because they were unable to establish an
early life bond with a parent or caregiver.
While research has demonstrated that
attachment styles, which are developed from our
early parenting experiences, are quite stable over time, specific adult intimate relationships can alter the strength of one's
attachment style.2 In my case, my ex-husband was not mentally
healthy; I consequently avoided dating for a good year and a half following our divorce.
Promoting
early social and emotional development in babies and toddlers has a powerful impact on the establishment of
healthy and secure
attachment relationships.
If we form
healthy and consistent bonds
early on,
healthy attachments most often continue.
Michelle has reactive
attachment disorder (RAD), a condition that develops when babies and young children don't have opportunities to attach to
healthy caregivers
early in their development.
The federal government funds
early childhood education programs such as Head Start (8.6 billion dollars in 2014), and parents of young children are constantly bombarded with information about
attachment parenting, brain -
healthy activities, and brain - sensitive discipline strategies.
Adults who have never addressed problems with
attachment and who see the result of
attachment issues in their lives might, in treatment, identify and explore
early losses, grieve for the childhood bonds that were not experienced, and gain closure while learning how to develop
healthy attachments and accept love, if they have difficulty doing so.
Research suggests that
early targeted interventions aimed at increasing parental sensitivity and promoting
attachment may be effective in promoting
healthy child development (see, for example, Lieberman 1999; Schore 2001; Van Ijzendoorn 1995), and in preventing emotional maltreatment (Barlow 2010).
In some cases, foreign orphanages do not provide the care, attention, and supervision necessary to support
healthy attachments in the child's
early developmental stages.
API uniquely endeavors to envelop all parents and caregivers with new, practical information and support to help them attain and retain
early,
healthy secure
attachments though connected relationships with children in any neighborhood, setting or socioeconomic level.
I strongly believe that secure
attachment bonds formed
early in life are essential for a
healthy sense of well being and in maintaining
healthy relationships with others.
Describe the importance of mindfulness skills for working with the challenges of postpartum adjustment and
early parenting stress, including its potential for decreasing postpartum depression and for facilitating
healthy parent - infant
attachment
Resolve trauma and abuse symptoms, develop
healthier boundaries and heal
early attachment wounds
In setting these aims, the programme drew on evidence concerning the importance of maternal health and well - being in pregnancy for optimal in utero development (e.g. [32 — 36]-RRB- and the importance of secure
attachments [37 — 40] and ensuring
healthy social and emotional development in the
early years [8, 41, 42].