Topic Category: Promoting First Relationships in Pediatrics
Multiple Types of Cues in Real-Time: Father and Son Stringing Beads
In this video, a father and son are playing. There is a mixture of red, yellow, and green light cues that show…
Multiple Types of Cues in Real-time: Mother and 3-month-old Talking Back and Forth
These last two videos show caregivers in everyday situations. Note the mutuality and enjoyment that comes from responding sensitively to their child’s cues. In this video, a…
Subtle Disengagement: Child and Mother Playing with Dolls and Warming Up to a New Person
In this video, a mother and her daughter are playing together. The daughter is a little shy and tentative since they are…
Subtle Disengagement Cues: Boy Being Shown Something “Yucky”
The next two videos show subtle disengagement cues, which are pacing cues that signal the child needs to have the interaction slowed down, but…
Potent Disengagement Cues: Boy Scared to Touch Worm
This first video shows potent disengagement cues which signal that the interaction is getting to be too much. These cues signal that the child needs…
Engagement and Disengagement Cues
Engagement Cues Engagement cues signal readiness to interact or learn and indicate that the child is ready to receive more input. Disengagement…
Twins Talking
This video shows a set of twins talking which also demonstrates our innate hard-wiring to connect. These boys are pre-verbal yet note the synchrony in…
Translation to the Clinical Setting
Social Connectedness: The Importance of Children’s First Relationships…
4-Month-Old Meeting Her Aunt For the First Time Video
In this video, Sarah is a 4-month-old baby being held by her father. An aunt who is visiting and not familiar to…
Quiet Alert State of Newborns
In this video, observe two different infants in a quiet, alert state, which is an optimal time to interact with young infants. Most of us…