Quotes of: Developmental Keyword

When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the prob...

The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution

When our caregivers are unavailable, most of time it has nothing to do with LOVE for the child, however, the child cannot possibly know this. The child winds up believing that the unavailable parent is not available due to some defect within the chil...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

The traumatic stress field has adopted the term “Complex Trauma” to describe the experience of multiple and/or chronic and prolonged, developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an interpersonal nature (e.g., sexual or physical abuse,...

Bessel A. van der Kolk

Anxiously attached Codependents demonstrate the ability to maximize the attention they get from their partner, regardless of whether it is positive or negative (i.e., "I'd rather be screamed at than ignored"). Manipulation is used to keep the inatten...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

With intimacy comes the possibility of “engulfment” or being taken hostage by the demands of others. We may have distorted perceptions of the “demands” and obligations placed upon us by those who claim to love us. Trusting that love to be unc...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Mary Lou Retton

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Tucker Max

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

Mary Bono

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Jean Piaget

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

Naomi Wolf

Along with our over-giving is our own conditional giving pattern, which can fuel so much of our resentment and feelings of “victimization” by the people to whom we are giving. We may be completely unaware of our expectations of those we assist, a...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Alison Gopnik

At its heart, Codependency is a set of behaviors developed to manage the anxiety that comes when our primary attachments are formed with people who are inconsistent or unavailable in their response to us. Our anxiety-based responses to life can inclu...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

Christianity is 'developmental' as opposed to 'evolutionary'". ~R. Alan Woods [2011]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

Paul Nurse

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

Henry Cloud

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Erik Erikson

When I can TRUST the people close to me, I translate this to mean I am WORTH being loved and cared about. Because I have the “safety net” created by a trusted support system I feel like I can tackle stressors in my life and be effective. Because ...

Awakening Hope. a Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

Paul Davies

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Alison Gopnik