Psychoeducation

Anxious attachment develops when the caregiver is loving but inconsistent and unpredictable. This can happen if the caregiver has serious mental health or substance abuse issue, when they expect their child to meet their needs, or when the caregiver is overly-intrusive or discourage a child’s…

Secure attachment develops when a child’s caregiver is regularly attuned and nurturing and functions as a safe base for the infant to explore their environment. This secure attachment is based upon the accumulation of all the successes and failures in interactions between infant and caregiver.…

Attachment is the interpersonal bond between child and caregiver that is developed through the accumulation of all the successes and failures in the caregiver meeting the child’s physical and emotional needs. From this relationship with our original caregivers, we develop working models of what we…

Given recent statements by RFK about Autistic individuals and the suggested creation of a registry for them, I feel the need to say a few things. Autistic people most certainly can and do have form meaningful attachments and relationships. His suggestion that they will never…

Harry Harlow’s behavioral experiments with rhesus monkeys are considered classic and revolutionized our understanding of the role of relationships and attachment play in early development. These experiments were conducted in the 1950s and 60s and explored the importance of nurturance and comfort versus the importance…

    As February is Black History Month, I feel I must speak to the current hot topic of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI). As many others have been pointing out, the assumption that BIPOC individuals are only hired due to their skin color and…