Babies' Brain Development

• Face to Face
Social interaction dramatically shapes children’s brains, including the future monarch of England.

ACE Studies

• Adverse Childhood Experiences
Learn more about the growing role of trauma-informed practices.

Building Healthy Brains

• Harvard University Video
Building adult capabilities to improve child outcomes: the relationships essential to children’s lifelong learning, health, and behavior.

Behavior Problems

• Understanding vs. Medicating
To help children with "behavior problems," it is essential to listen to their parents....the behavior is a symptom, perhaps even an adaptive response, to the underlying problem.

Diagnostic Statistical Manual-V

• DSM-V Lacks Scientific Validity
Reshaping the direction of psychiatric research to focus on biology, genetics, and neuroscience to define disorders by causes, rather than symptoms.

Sleep Deprivation

• Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit
Sleep-restricting lifestyles began getting more extreme in the 1990s, the decade with the explosion in A.D.H.D. diagnoses.

Attachment Theory

• The Power of Compassion
Securely attached children are those whose parents were able to acknowledge their child’s moments of fear and suffering and respond to them compassionately.