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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Polyvagal theory"”.
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Reconstructing experience of childhood cancer: a narrative inquiry
… and Cellular Memory, based on Porges’ Polyvagal Theory (1995). The narrative patterns that emerge are: relationships, identity and the embodied experience. The co-participant’s story is re-presented in a letter, accompanied by a poem, addressed to healthcare professionals. Implications …
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‘’It’s not just the rape’’: an ecological exploration of the factors impacting female sexuality after rape
… Maturational Model of Attachment (DMM) and Polyvagal Theory (PVT), to offer a more holistic and less pathologising view of FSD after rape. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analysis data from six semi-structured interviews of women who had experienced rape. The use …
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A Sense of Trust: Somatic Spiritual Practices as a Path to Wholeness in Spiritually Integrated Trauma Care
… the dialogically derived cocreativity of field theory, (c) polyvagal theory regarding socially enhanced alert ease, and (d) Heart Rate Variability (HRV) research on coherence and synchrony. I propose a spiritually oriented, interreligious, trauma care praxis for cocreating intrinsically …
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Beyond the feeding relationship: mothers' descriptions of interaction within the mother-child dyad
… developmental theories; namely Porges' Polyvagal Theory of subconscious adaptation for social behaviour and security strategies, and The Mirror Neuron Theory which describes mechanisms of imitation and the development of empathy. Factors which enhanced mother-child interaction are …
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The Co-regulatory Effects of Emotionally Focused Therapy
<p>Mental health literature emphasizes the necessity of expanding emotional regulation to improve symptomology of a variety of mental health disorders. Coregulatory experiences have been shown to expand individual emotional regulation and are more likely in relationships with secure attachment. …
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Connected corrections and corrected connections: post-release supervision of long sentence male prisoners
In this thesis I establish the desirability of adopting a connected, healing-centred approach in which multiagency collaboration is prioritised in order to improve outcomes for long sentence male prisoners. I explore how childhood trauma is often at the root of addiction and offending behaviour, …