by D. Brown | Sep 30, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: MI PHAM This week, mental health counsellor and DIR Expert Training Leader, Gene Christian in Spokane, Washington is back with us to reiterate the importance of the preverbal affective gestural system to development. Gene says that this preverbal affective...
by D. Brown | Oct 8, 2018 | DIR Practice
This week we have another great Floortime example with the young adult and his father whom we featured a few months ago. If you recall, Dad has been receiving parent coaching in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model. He continues...
by D. Brown | Jul 16, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Key Take-Aways AUDIO Do you find it hard to keep your child engaged with you? Is it hard to have an ongoing back-and-forth interaction without them losing interest or moving away? It could be that you struggling to connect with your child on an emotional level....
by D. Brown | Jul 2, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Photo: Nathan Anderson Key Take-Aways AUDIO More and more research is demonstrating what Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Stuart Shanker told us in The First Idea years ago: that we develop within emotional relationships with our primary caregivers. This development...
by D. Brown | May 21, 2018 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Bruno Nascimento Key Take-Aways Jackie Bartell is back with us this week for a fantastic discussion about a concept so essential to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model and Floortime, and that is that we are human beings not...
