Keeping children safe from the threats that come with technological advancements has always been a worry among parents.
Traditional models of attachment theory demonstrate a study that was done in 1978 by Mary Ainsworth called the “Strange Situation”. In this experiment, a mother and child were put into a room where another person was present, referred to as the “stranger” and the mother was asked to then leave the room and leave their…
Childhood trauma can be extremely impactful on neurodevelopment and can have lasting effects on mental health during developmental years into adulthood. For nearly two decades now, professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University Medical School, Bessel van der Kolk, has been an advocate for the inclusion of Development Trauma Disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical…
As children do not always have the language to express themselves, their needs and stories are often best expressed via play. Landreth (2012) defines play as the universal language of children. Play has been observed in virtually every culture since the beginning of recorded history, and is not only central but also vital to childhood…