NOVA PBS Official __________________________________________________________________ Psychological Damage Inflicted By Parent-Child Separation is Deep, Long-Lasting By Allison Eck on Wed, 20 Jun 2018, NOVA NEXT Millions of years of evolution have gone into erecting the deepest of connections: that between mother and child. That primal bond—when forcibly shattered or disrupted—can be devastating for both parent and child, according to scientists, many of whom are weighing in o

Dr Rosaleen McElvaney Primary schools are dealing with very young children with serious mental health difficulties including self-harming and suicidal thoughts, according to a new study. The findings have sparked calls for the urgent establishment of a nationwide primary schools' counselling service to provide professional back-up to principals and teachers dealing with pupils in distress. Family issues and relationship breakdowns were cited as the most common underlying caus

Tusla - Child and Family Agency Published on Oct 4, 2017 'Tusla has worked with the DCYA and HSE to developed a universal e-learning training programme called ‘Introduction to Children First’. The programme has been written to support people of all backgrounds and experience in recognising concerns about children and reporting such concerns if they arise. The programme is based on Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children and the Children F

Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Just as an air traffic control system at a busy airport safely manages the arrivals and departures of many aircraft on multiple runways, the brain needs this skill set to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve goals, and control impulses. When children have opportunities to develop execut

How do children heal from trauma? TEDx TALKS. Play therapy and trauma expert, Paris Goodyear-Brown, takes us on a journey through the stories of children from hard places, the neuroscience of play, and the importance of each of us in bearing witness to the hurt. Graphic images may evoke strong emotions but will reveal the amazing ability of children to tell us what happened and play their way to healing. Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, is a child trauma expert and a profes

Summary: A new study reveals children show less attention to emotional facial expressions if their parents are highly critical. Source: Binghamton University. The researchers wanted to examine how exposure to parental criticism impacts the way that children process and pay attention to facial expressions of emotion. NeuroscienceNews.com image is apated from the Binghamton University video. James and fellow researchers had parents of 7 to 11-year-old children talk about their

Sat 23rd June 09:30 – 16:45 National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Tickets at Eventbrite click here This ground-breaking and thought provoking conference provides a unique perspective from the worlds of literature, psychotherapy and neuroscience. The learning objectives of the Conference are to bring together the three worlds of children's literature, the psychoanalytic understanding of the unconscious and brain development. The focus is to demonstrate how meta

The number of children prescribed anti-depressants has quadrupled over a six-year period to 2017, new figures show. Data on anti-depressant use among those aged 15 and under shows 301 individual medical card holders were given the medication in 2011. That figure reached 823 by 2016 and 1,289 by November of last year. The upward curve in prescription rates reflects that of the general adult population. Fianna Fáil spokesman on mental health James Browne, who sought the data, s