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The Brainwave Trust has been very fortunate over the last two years to have received wonderful support from the Soroptimist International New Zealand organisation. This support has been both financial and “hands on”.
In March we were presented with a very generous donation from the Auckland group, who have been fundraising on our behalf, organising & paying for Brainwave presentations and working quietly in the background to help make many of our events and projects possible. A very efficient team of ladies recently spent a day compiling the 350 kit bags for the Family Ties Conference.
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Brainwave is very fortunate to have Graeme McCormick as an advocate for our findings and work. He spoke this month to the Remuera Rotary Club about his aim for New Zealand’s children. Below is an extract taken from the March 2007 Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Remuera Inc. District 9920 New Zealand, Vol 27 No. 29.
The file below was published in the East & Bays Courier, June 28, 2006.
Dr Susan Foster-Cohen’s pick for March 07 is linked below.
An article by Michael D. Bellis, Duke University, USA.
Child neglect, the most prevalent form of child maltreatment, is associated with adverse psychological and educational outcomes. In this article the author comprhensively outlines the issues involved in the psychobiological research of child neglect.
The link below is Miriams’ pick for March 07
Skill Formation & the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
Author: James J. Heckman
Source: www. sciencemag.org 30 June 2006
The paper linked below summarizes evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent & adult acheivement. Life cycle skill formation is a dynamic process in which early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs.
Valuing Prevention
Working paper from the Danish National Institute of Social
Research examines the relationship between maternal employment, family structure and family life, and future child well-being.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=97938
Abstract:
Children’s well-being around the age when they start school is crucial for their future success in the educational system. Factors in the first 3 years of a child’s life matter for the child’s well-being when he or she starts school. This article analyzes the relationship between early childhood factors-such as maternal employment, family structure, and family life-and future child well-being. The analysis uses the psychosocial SDQ-scale and the number of problems experienced around starting school as measures of well-being. Results show that family factors in particular are important, while the effect of maternal employment-if any-is positive. In addition, the results differ markedly between girls and boys.
March 2007: The link to this new research comes to us from
Professor Graham Vimpani AM,
Clinical Chair
Kaleidoscope in Greater Newcastle
Hunter Children’s Health Network
Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health
University of Newcastle
Some babies seem to cry a lot in the first three months.
It can be very distressing for parents and the baby appears to be in discomfort too.
An American paediatrician and a professor of paediatrics at the University of California, Harvey Karp, has worked out a system to help desperate, sleep deprived parents soothe the agitated baby.
His theories and method are based on the idea that babies are born at 9 months because their head size is at its maximum for the birth canal, but the baby really needs another 3 months gestation. In other words it is not ready for the outside world yet – hence the crying. Read more
Enhancing Brain Development
Consistent, nurturing, predictable and ‘enriched’ experiences in a safe setting result in optimal brain building.
Parents are usually the child’s first and most important teachers.
Parents and caregivers have long known that babies thrive in loving, warm, responsive care. New scientific research has been able to explain how this works.
Early care has a long lasting impact. Read more
Author: John Bryant
Abstract
This article will discuss the complex interaction of experience and biology in the formation of the violent mind. The practice of psychotherapy reflects the philosophical emphasis of hermeneutic phenomenology upon sensitivity and relationship to lived experience. Phenomenology searches for pre conscious experience. Hermeneutics shapes meaning and gives significance to such phenomena.
This commentary emphasises themes of shame, fathering and remorse as they arise from a series of insightful interviews with men about individual experiences of violence. The influences of neurobiology and attachment theory are used to understand the dynamic forces behind these themes and the role that neurobiology and attachment theory play in understanding violence.
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