Confused about trauma? Blame the DSM!
Most people lack a basic understanding of trauma. They don’t realize that there are (at least) FOUR categories of trauma, which I describe in ...
What’s Missing in the “Disorder That Affects Us All” Conversation About Developmental Trauma
Here’s a big thank you to Nicole Noonan for her great article,The Disorder That Affects Us All: What you need to know about developmental ...
We Proudly Announce the Launch of our THREE Beautifully Redesigned Websites
Up, Up and Away! Carl Donovan and Aric Rohner, our long-time Asheville, NC tech team at Opus Marketplace, have given our sites fresh new looks, and ...
Oprah, Developmental Trauma & the Hole in the Soul
When Oprah talks, people listen Let’s hope Oprah’s message in her interview about Developmental Trauma penetrates the veil of denial ...
Developmental Trauma Becomes A Controversial Political Issue
Researchers in children’s mental health have typically focused on more acute early-life interpersonal events that involve sexual or physical ...
The Politics of Developmental Trauma
Developmental Trauma is a political issue that has caused controversy among professionals, particularly those revising the 2013 Diagnostic & ...
The Slippery Slope from Lost Child to Mass Shooter
What causes a child to go… This mother’s story tells it all . . . You Can’t Fix it if You Don’t Know How it Got Broken! From ...
TRAUMA, POLITICS, ETHICS AND THE DSM
Who would think that childhood trauma and the suffering associated with it could be a political issue?? I surely didn’t. It actually took several ...
What Makes Effective Psychotherapy? YOU!
Janae B. Weinhold, PhD LPC Are you an effective therapist? How can you become more effective in your work with clients? Psychologist George’ ...
Are You a Trauma-Informed Therapist?
Professional organizations, national credentialing agencies, and university educational programs are not producing trauma-informed therapists. The ...
Are You Attachment-Informed?
If you’re a therapist, are you attachment-informed? Therapists need to know about the attachment research of Mary Main and her colleagues at- ...
Attachment, Disease and Addiction
Gabor Maté says that traditional medical and psychological “experts” don’t recognize developmental trauma, particularly attachment ...
Developmental Trauma: A Gift or a Curse?
Childhood adversities involving developmental trauma can become personal game-changers. They can set you on a transformational journey that shifts ...
My Attachment Style Can Cause Health Problems?
My attachment style can cause health problems? Yes, according to research studies. The findings revealed that insecure attachment style can cause ...
Attachment Styles in Psychotherapy
One of the most interesting findings from the research on attachment styles is that between 80 and 90 percent of those who seek psychotherapy have ...
Your ACES Score: What It Can Tell You
The ACES score is a measure of the number of childhood traumas you experienced involving abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. ...
The Essence of Attachment and Bonding
Attunement, Resonance and Synchrony Allen Schore’s use of language from quantum sciences to describe what happens in a parent-child ...
Healing Developmental Trauma in Children
Healing developmental trauma in children is possible. We know this because Janae has also trained many clinicians, childcare providers and early ...
Our Research on Developmental Trauma
We began our heuristic research on developmental trauma just after our marriage in 1984. During this period, Janae was working on her doctorate ...
The Long-Term Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Barry K. Weinhold, Ph.D. If you ever wondered how adverse childhood experiences might affect adult physical health, then you will be interested in ...
How Freaked Out Are Your Clients?
Barry K. Weinhold, Ph.D. How freaked out are your clients? If your practice is anything like mine, that’s a lot of what you’re seeing. ...
Attachment & The First Year
A Paradigm Shift Have you ever had your view of something suddenly crash, and then in a head-shaking movement, have to reorganize all of your ...
Did Childhood Neglect Cause You To Freak Out?
If we connect the dots, most of us think of childhood abuse as the reason you freak out as an adult. Did you ever think of childhood neglect as a ...
Our Laboratory
Our relationship became our laboratory. As many of you know, we’ve been researching, identifying, treating and writing about developmental ...
Attachment, Trauma and the First Year
Janae B. Weinhold, PhD LPC A Paradigm Shift Have you ever had your view of something suddenly crash, and then in a head-shaking movement, have to ...
Developmental Systems Theory: The Foundation of Our Work
We call the theory that serves as the foundation for all our work, Developmental Systems Theory (DST). Based on what we were learning in our ...
My Love Affair With Ukraine
Janae Weinhold A conversation I had this morning with one of my Ukrainian students about her experience of being in the midst of a revolution ...
What is Developmental Trauma?
Developmental trauma is the result of abandonment, abuse, and neglect during the first three years of a child’s life that disrupts cognitive, ...
Moving From The Trauma Track To The LOVEvolution Track
Barry K. & Janae B. Weinhold Moving to the LOVEvolution track from the Trauma Track involves modifying the relational template hardwired into ...
Developmental Shock
Developmental shock experiences happen without any conscious control or effort because they are regulated by the autonomic nervous system. The ...
Developmental Trauma
Developmental trauma is a breakthrough term that draws from both the fields of developmental psychology and traumatology. Developmental trauma is ...
Developmental Shock, Trauma & Intractable Conflict
Early experiences involving developmental shock, trauma and stress form the foundation for intractable conflict in adult relationships. ...
Developmental Stress
In the traumatology literature, stress is typically associated with post-traumatic stress and the Adrenal Stress Response, and not recognized as its ...
Developmental Shock During the Bonding Stage
Infants often experience developmental shock during the bonding stage. When they experience abandonment, abuse or neglect during the bonding stage ...
Healing Personal Developmental Trauma
Listen to Barry & Janae’s interviews on how to heal personal developmental trauma: ...
Our 4-Stage Model of Development
Our four-stage model of optimal parenting and development gives children a solid social and emotional foundation. It also identifies critical ...
How We Created Our Developmental Model
We have been conducting personal research on DST in what we came to call our laboratory since we were married in 1984. When we got married we had no ...
How We Created the Microsystems Component of DST
We have been conducting personal research on DST in what we came to call our laboratory since we were married in 1984. When we got married we had no ...
Scientific Information on Adrenaline and Developmental Stress
Scientific information on adrenaline and developmental stress shows that there is an interplay between stress hormones and the nervous system that ...
How We Created the Macrosystems Component of DST
How We Created The Macro-Systems Component of DST During the same time we were researching how DST worked in micro systems (individuals, ...
Preventing Developmental Trauma
Developmental Trauma can be prevented by providing infants and young children with comforting and nurturing support when they become emotionally ...
The Trauma Continuum
The termsdevelopmental shock,developmental trauma, and developmental stress are breakthrough concepts in the fields of mental health, pre- ...