Spiritual Experiences of Motherhood
It is amazing that self-regulation is the first functional emotional capacity humans typically develop in the first months of life. Self-regulation can be described as the ability to calm oneself in strange situations. I like how the ICDL website beautifully describes and links the baby’s first experience and self-regulation: After nine months in darkness, a […]
For some days now, I have become more aware of the little one’s presence. He is constantly ordering us around, “get down”, “stop it”, “no”, “sit down”.. and I cannot count the number of times I have heard “mine” within the past few days of social isolation. Guess what I have been doing as well, […]
There are two popular interventions for children with developmental disorders- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and the Developmental Individual-Differences Relationship Based model (DIR or DIR/Floortime). While I practice behavior analysis on my job, my doctoral program advocates the DIR model which suites my personality. The focus on parent-child relationship in the therapeutic process draws me to […]
