2019 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Moving Upstream

I wish you the very best... There is nothing more important to the eventual prevention of ACEs than getting early childhood right.  

I doubt many, not even prescribers, know that the “Self-Endangering” secure base distortion represents most of what is diagnosed (and unfortunately treated with stimulant pharmaceuticals)  as early onset ADHD and ODD...

”The Self-Endangering sub-type refers to behaviours in which the child impulsively engages in exploratory behaviours unfettered and un-modulated by the opposing activation of attachment behaviours (e.g. proximity seeking, checking back). Aggression toward the self or caregiver is often present, as is significant risk-taking or self-endangering behaviour (e.g. running away from the caregiver in a public place, running into traffic, climbing to dangerous heights). Such children frequently come from homes where interpersonal violence has occurred and their behaviour suggests an attempt to activate the protective instincts of a caregiver who may be preoccupied, dissociative, passive, or unavailable in some other manner.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...2690512/#!po=14.8352

”If their procedural experience could be put into words, we imagine future disorganized infants might experience, “I’m so upset and you’re not helping me. I’m smiling at you and whimpering; don’t you see I want you to love me? When I’m upset, you smile or close up or look away. You make me feel worse. I feel confused about what I feel and about what you feel. I can’t predict you. I don’t know what is going on. What am I supposed to do? I feel helpless to affect you. I feel helpless to help myself. I feel frantic. I feel unsafe.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...3855265/#!po=24.4048

I will be speaking Wed. 9/18 at 10:15 in Room 103A with Pennsylvania Director Teresa Olsen. We will be building the case for making parenting and child development education a national priority in all high schools. Hope to see many of you there. Please come up and introduce yourself. I'd love to put a face with names I see on the ACEsConnection post.

I will be speaking at this event.