Trust and Meaning Making in Parent-Child Interactions
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Dr. Tronick is a pioneer of studying subtle interactions between infant and caregiver and the stress regulating systems involved. In this presentation he discusses daily stress regulation and its consequences. Dr. Tronic discusses several stress regulation systems such as the HPA Axis, the autonomic nervous system, and the epigenetic system.
Edward Tronick, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants, children, and parenting. He developed the Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm and videotaped micro-analytic studies of infant en face interactions, pioneered studies of the effects of maternal depression on infants, and carried out numerous cross-cultural studies of infant and child development. His Mutual Regulation Model and Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness hypothesis are widely accepted accounts of social interactions and therapeutic processes. Dr. Tronick is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is director of the Child Development Unit, a research associate in Newborn Medicine, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, an associate professor at both the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health at Harvard.
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