Attachment and Conscious Parenting, Dr Gabor Mate

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Gabor Mate, MD, author of Hold On to Your Kids, is interviewed by Lisa Reagan for Pathways to Family Wellness at his Kids, Culture and Chaos talk in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the spring of 2011. The event was hosted by Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts. What conditions do children need for healthy development, and therefore what is lacking in the environment today? He highlights attachment relationships as the core issue. These attachments extend beyond the atomised family – where is the village and tribe? If one looks at the key brain circuits that need to be developed in a child – i.e., stress and emotional regulation, impulse control, decision making, attention, picking up on social cues; what is crucial according to Mate is the avialability of non-stressed, emotionally available, attuned caregivers. He goes on to analyse the numerous factors present in modern-day society that have fractured the social and cultural environment, leading to dysregulated childhood development.

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[Trauma. Attachment. Conscious Parenting. Gabor Mate, MD.]