De eerste duizend dagen van een kind zijn cruciaal voor een goede ontwikkeling. In de praktijk blijkt dat 14 procent van de Nederlandse kinderen een valse start kent door bijvoorbeeld vroeggeboorte of een te laag geboortegewicht. Psychosociale problemen binnen een gezin, huisvesting, armoede en schulden spelen daarbij een belangrijke rol. Minister Hugo de Jonge (VWS) komt voor de zomer met een landelijk actieprogramma “Kansrijke Start”, dat ervoor moet zorgen dat kinderen een goede start kunnen maken. Deze masterclass met expert Robin Balbernie gaat over het vergroten van de kansrijke start, ieder kind verdient dit en krijgt deze kans maar één keer.
Quotes van Robin Balbernie:
'The organising brain requires patterns of sensory and emotional experience to create the patterns of neural activity that will guide the neurobiological processes involved in development.'
'A child growing up surrounded by trauma, neglect and unpredictability will only be able to develop neural systems and functional capabilities that reflect this disorganisation. - Babies adapt.'
De belangrijkste onderwerpen en doelen
Circuits and circumstances: the consequences of early relationships: a view from interpersonal neurobiology
- How the quality of early caregiving, in the First 1001 Critical Days, can influence brain development
- Why and how babies' brains are affected
- Experience expectant and experience dependant brain growth
- Understanding of the importance of sensitive periods
- The sequence of brain development in the early years
- Overview of the stress response and how it can become hard wired for survival in extreme situations.
- The normality of feeling anger with a baby, but not acting this out
- The quantities of good caregiving that prevent violence
- The risk factors behind sudden family violence
- The effects of early maltreatment, including neglect, on the developing brain and how this may lead to lack of impulse control as an adult
- How a crying baby might trigger rage in some adults
- The protective factors that prevent family violence
- How early maltreatment may lead to a range of future mental illnesses
- How early maltreatment can lead to future violence and lack of self control
- How experiencing violence in childhood may compromise reflective function and how in turn this may predispose to becoming violent later in life
- Overview of the ACE study as demographic evidence of the long term effects of childhood maltreatment
- How early maltreatment affects brain development and in turn later mental health and social and emotional development
- How trauma in infancy may lead to disorganised attachment and violence
- How trauma, including neglect, impacts an infant’s brain, including epigenetic
- Traumatic humiliation and shame
- The effects on the infant of witnessing family violence
