“A safe, loving caregiver, who acts in a sensitive and attuned manner and makes an effort to repair ruptures in the relationship, is modelling appropriate emotional regulation.”
(Fredrich 2006).
“A secure relationship is central to the development of a positive self, emphatic and sensitive interaction, and adaptive and flexible emotional regulation skill.”
- Australian childhood foundation
“A potentially traumatising event is any event that overwhelms the infant or child’s capacity to cope. This can be a one off event or ongoing in nature.”
Nijenhuis, 2005
“Trauma is an experience that induces an abnormally intense and prolonged stress response.”
Perry, 2002
“Trauma makes you more vulnerable, it does not toughen you up.” Dr. B Perry
“….traumatised and neglected children need patterned, repetitive experiences appropriate to their developmental needs, needs that reflect the age at which they missed important stimuli or had been traumatised, not their chronological age.”
Dr Bruce Perry
“Trauma is locked in the body, and it’s in the body that it must be accessed and healed. Trauma responses are fundamentally “highly activated, incomplete biological responses to threat, frozen in time.”
Bessel van der Kolk
“All people are evolutionary programmed to flee, fight, or freeze in the face of grave threats.”
Peter Levine, 2005
“The most important property of human kind is the capacity to form and maintain relationships, which are essential for human survival, for learning, working, loving, and procreating.
The most intense and pleasurable and most painful are those relationships with family, friends and loved ones. Within this inner circle of intimate relationships, we are bonded to each other with “emotional glue”, we are bonded with love”.
Dr. Bruce Perry
“Therapeutic change begins with a network of people who are caring and attentive to the child’s needs. Healing comes from a network of people in the child’s life who provide healthy and secure connections…”
Bruce Perry 2003
