How the developing brain is shaped by parent-infant communication.
Come and join us to learn about how the way parents communicate with their infants can influence the development of the brain!
In this workshop produced in association with the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment Lab, at the University of Essex, you will be introduced to Four Networks of the developing brain. You will discover how these networks develop through parent-infant communication and how they work together to provide babies with enduring resilience to stress, the capacities to form loving and committed relationships, and lifelong wellbeing. You will also discover how the Four Networks function differently, and speak to each other differently, according to the parenting style that a baby or child receives and how this relates to secure and insecure attachment.
The training is delivered by Amanda Lucas and Dr Pascal Vrticka.
Come and join us to learn about how the way parents communicate with their infants can influence the development of the brain!
In this workshop produced in association with the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment Lab, at the University of Essex, you will be introduced to Four Networks of the developing brain. You will discover how these networks develop through parent-infant communication and how they work together to provide babies with enduring resilience to stress, the capacities to form loving and committed relationships, and lifelong wellbeing. You will also discover how the Four Networks function differently, and speak to each other differently, according to the parenting style that a baby or child receives and how this relates to secure and insecure attachment.
The training is delivered by Amanda Lucas and Dr Pascal Vrticka.
Amanda is the founding director of the UK parent-infant charity, Babygro. Babygro aims to empower parents, and those that work with families, by bringing to life leading-edge research on parent-infant communication, brain development and links to later-life (mental) health, and wellbeing. Amanda gained her PhD in developmental psychology at Lancaster University in 2013, going on to conduct programmes of research at the University of St Andrews and the University of Exeter on social development in children (including children with and without autism). She has lectured on the developmental of social understanding in infants at the University of St Andrews and continues to publish in international scientific journals. She is a mother of two fantastic boys and lives near Truro, in Cornwall.
Pascal is currently an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Centre for Brain Science, Department of Psychology, University of Essex where he is the PI of the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment Lab (SoNeAt Lab). He furthermore acts as Coordinating Board President of the Special Interest Research Group “Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment” (SIRG SoNeAt) situated within the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS) where he is an Associate Member of the Executive Board (2020-present). In addition, since 2022, Dr Vrticka acts as an Associate Trustee of the UK registered charity Babygro.