By Andrea Haffner, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Senior Clinical Advisor at Secure Beginnings/Comienzos Seguros As we recognize Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, it is a good time to reflect on the essential value of human connection. Connection helps us to know that we are not alone, that others understand us and have walked similar roads, or...
By Siobhan McDevitt, L.M.F.T. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist/Core Class Facilitator and Carol Castanon, Child & Family Consultant, Former Director of Secure Beginnings Newborn: 0 to 3 months This stage is the beginning of the infant-parent relationship. While the prenatal experience has influenced child, mother, father and caregiver in many ways, sometimes profoundly, it is with the...
By Terra Solecki, Secure Beginnings Class Facilitator / Educator Black and white Toddlers are in the process of rapidly categorizing the world around them. Categorization is essential for humans, as it allows us to make predictions in novel situations. Because toddlers are working so hard to actively create different categories from the world around them, their categories...
By Terra Solecki, Class Facilitator, Educator When faced with challenging, upsetting, or unsafe behavior from our children, we want to respond to our children in respectful ways that build partnership. Instead, often, in the moment after something heavy has been thrown, we have been hit with the toy car, or another child has been pushed, our...
By Carol Castanon; Child & Family Consultant, Former Director of Secure Beginnings All people experience crisis or trauma at some time in the life of their family. It may be divorce, illness, or death. Sometimes a financial crisis can have a devastating impact on the stability of family. Natural disasters, accidents, and violence may impact family...