Class Category: Promoting First Relationships in Pediatrics
2. Alleviation of Distress
The evolutionary adaptation to depend on social connectedness to keep us safe means that we have biologically linked nervous systems. Children are born ready…
1. Understanding Cues in Order to Support Sensitive Caregiving
Baby Cues: What Are They Telling Us? We are all hard-wired to send cues that communicate a readiness to interact or a…
Challenging Behavior Cases
In this section, the written and video case studies show how looking beneath the challenging behavior to the unmet feelings and needs…
Reframing Challenging Behavior: It’s All About Feeling Connected
Viewing a child’s difficult behavior as their “language of distress” is a powerful reframe. It allows the parent to look beneath the behavior and consider what…
Understanding Children’s Behavior as Their Language of Distress
A child’s behavior arises from what they are feeling and needing in the moment. Difficult behaviors in children are how a child communicates their feelings of distress about…
Elements of a Healthy Relationship
Healthy relationships (whether between parent and child or pediatric provider and parent) are based on common elements which include recognition of each…
Social Connectedness: The Importance of Children’s First Relationships
Human evolution is distinct from other primate evolution by the extent to which humans cooperate together and share mental states with each…
PFR Approach to Relationship-Focused Care
Each interaction is an opportunity for you to make parents and children feel heard, appreciated, and understood.~ Jeree Pawl and Amy L….
Introduction
Promoting First Relationships (PFR) in Pediatrics was developed from a collaboration between practicing community pediatricians and University of Washington’s Barnard Center for Infant…