Mershona Parshall Attachment And Bonding Therapy
The process of art making engages participants in the many positive aspects of the creative process. The creative process itself changes our brain state, promoting a greater sense of well being and inspiration for living. Any medium can be used to facilitate art making whether it is drawing, painting, clay, sculpture, collage, mixed media or crafts. Art making reveals our deeper truths or desires; often censored by the analytical mind that judges and inhibits spontaneous expression. Art therapy can also guide participants to gain insight into themselves and problem solve in novel ways.
Participating in creative process through art making has nothing to do with "talent" although "non-artists" are often amazed at what they are capable of producing once the self critic is subdued. Art therapy is a wonderful process of self-discovery and healing of the body, mind and spirit.
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Mershona Parshall Attachment And Bonding Therapy
PRIMARY DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA: FAILURES IN ATTACHMENT
A failure in attachment is the most elemental trauma a child can experience since attachment and bonding is the basis for all that makes us human. When an infant is neglected, meaning that his/her physical and emotional needs are not met, he/she may withdraw from human contact as a pleasurable and rewarding experience. This may lead to life long difficulties in forming healthy relationships. Further, since an infant’s brain organizes around his/her interactions with his/her primary caregiver, an impoverished attachment relationship and environment will produce an impoverished brain. An infant/child exposed to chronic stress states may develop in ways that are not relational but are instead survival based.
TREATMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA
Treatment of developmental trauma continues to evolve as neuroscience and treatment models mature. Not that long ago the public was unaware of interventions such as neurofeedback, EMDR or neuro-reorganization. These interventions are becoming more accepted as they prove to be effective tools for helping children heal. Additionally, the work of Bruce Perry, MD and his Neurosequential Developmental Model is gaining attention for treating childhood
trauma. Perry’s model contains many of the elements that have long been promoted by professionals working with developmental trauma, namely, a relational model of therapy that integrates attachment theory, somatic psychotherapies and expressive arts therapies. Some examples are nurturing touch, art therapy, movement, music, and even infant massage.
To address childhood developmental trauma in treatment, relational treatment models that include the primary caregivers are strongly recommended. Thus, the primary caregivers, who are the core attachment figures, are essential participants in the healing process. When therapist and parents work together to understand the whole child, i.e., somatic, neurological, emotional, psychological, behavioral, and social domains, then strategies can be applied to build and optimize the child’s systemic resources.
Mershona Parshall Supervision :Children with developmental trauma are usually fearful if not terrified of allowing themselves to be close or vulnerable to others. Somatic approaches that provide positive sensory input may be helpful for facilitating relational safety for such children. One of the goals of therapy is to create a safe context where the child is able to allow somatic and emotional closeness with his/her parents.
Sometimes we expect children who carry heavy loads of developmental trauma to get on with it. Many children with developmental trauma will not follow a smooth developmental path as critical windows have been interrupted due to the trauma. This requires careful navigation through regressive issues to support the child in a progressive manner while also addressing unmet needs as the child expresses them. Developmental movement therapies are a good example of re-working developmental movement patterns (regressive) in order to build neural resources so the child may progress.
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Personal Statement
I believe that humanity is at a crossroads and a shift needs to occur from an ego psychology where the focus is on the "I" to an eco psychology where the focus is on the "We". We live in a society that is increasingly suffering from a sort of relationship deficit disorder. The scope of disconnect is not only experienced person to person but also between person and the natural world. The symptoms of relational deficits are seen in the deterioration of human attachment relationships and in the careless destruction of the natural environment.
Our children and grandchildren deserve a world that is safe, nurturing and environmentally healthy. As we become a global community, it is ever more important to remember that we are all interconnected. Luis Espinoza says it beautifully…."we are all trees in the same wood, we all drink from the same fountain, we all share the same cosmic breath, life is a community of hearts."
Mershona Parshall Consultation PRIMARY DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA: FAILURES IN ATTACHMENT
A failure in attachment is the most elemental trauma a child can experience since attachment and bonding is the basis for all that makes us human. When an infant is neglected, meaning that his/her physical and emotional needs are not met, he/she may withdraw from human contact as a pleasurable and rewarding experience. This may lead to life long difficulties in forming healthy relationships. Further, since an infant’s brain organizes around his/her interactions with his/her primary caregiver, an impoverished attachment relationship and environment will produce an impoverished brain. An infant/child exposed to chronic stress states may develop in ways that are not relational but are instead survival based.
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